Cady Mountains, CA agate, reactive under germicidal irradiation (UV-C)
7
2
395
Made a charoite ring in a similar style to my emerald ring!
10
2
555
Couple other fun things done today.
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2
2534
This glowing quartz inside this geode I split open. UV-C lighting. Cady Mountains, California.
7
0
1165
Gold-flaked Memphis style muddy ribs, for my V-day love!
-2
14
247
121 carats of star garnet!
6
1
511
Introducing a new internet challenge - the TURBO SHOTGUN!
2
5
701
Someone requested more. I messed this up a little, but w/e, it adds character. Star stone pendant. Star garnet, black star sapphire, star ruby, black star diopside.
15
5
673
Spent a lot of time cutting this fire agate.
60
11
12586
Just finished this jade ring!
32
5
1845
Finally polished some of that gorgeous lepidolite/tourmaline!
66
10
3522
Horseshoe-cut Apache Tear
3
0
260
Made my man an emerald ring!
1908
114
94071
Finally done washing and (mostly) sorting!
12
27
714
Huge freaking ruby!
15
7
824
Here's what I do around the shop!
110
20
5046
The view inside this freshly-cut quartz boulder...
24
3
88
Lots of Calico Jasper!
12
8
617
This freaking emerald!
18
2
615
This is by far the most beautiful material I've cut - lepidolite with pink tourmaline, mined almost 100 years ago.
117
10
4392
Silver Lace Agate
10
7
592
By request! Close ups!
32
17
1496
Carved skulls are great.
7
4
486
This tree agate made for killer ring material, I can't stop staring at it.
123
11
6948
First finished ring.
11
5
71
Bitchn lapis
34
15
1057
Celestial themed set. Star ruby and moonstone.
0
1
331
Fat Fire Opal Slab
13
4
530
Tore down an 80 year old rock wall full of awesome stuff
10
4
1237
It's like looking down at a lake from the sky.
17
8
760
256 pounds of seam agate, silver-laced onyx/agate, petrified palm wood/root, and rainbow jasper from Calico, CA.
17
12
1049
Just some opal I found
8
2
466
Tri-color Tourmaline from Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA. Black, Green, and Colorless.
3
3
418
GE (General Electric) is totally lying about this being a UV blacklight. They even list 395nm on the bulb. It's not even real Woods glass. What a waste of $15. Should've bought from China instead.
4
14
418
Sweet Fluorite Specimen. Did the lighting stand myself.
17
3
839
Tricky rounded color-zoned amethyst
12
5
524
Mount Baldy Lapis Bug
4
1
369
Heated and quenched a rock to get a couple hundred sapphires!
7
6
534
Me standing next to a wall of quartz with tourmalines as thick as my arm and just as long. Nuevo, CA.
3
0
434
Wulfenite crystals in lead-sulfide matrix.
10
0
352
Brazilian Emerald Cabochon. First time working with the material.
7
0
830
Made a little picture box for rock slabs
4
1
373
Rare 58 Carat Blue Quartz (Indicolite Tourmaline Inclusions) Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA (Illuminated shot)
-1
4
530
Fat 22 carat 100% untreated ruby
29
11
938
Did some felt-lining of wooden boxes for finished cabochons.
3
2
1200
I love surprise rock packages.
9
9
496
X
6
2
403
Epidote and copper ring awaiting electro forming
5
1
382
Dravite and Schorl Tourmaline w/Quartz. Jurupa Mountains, CA.
6
3
607
Killer Micro-Tourmaline Cluster, Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA.
17
1
692
Simple wire-wrapped garnet cabochon.
7
4
405
Fun times with chemistry
-4
0
346
Star rubies!
13
1
669
Best one made so far!
12
4
46
Making a copper/sapphire ring. Almost electro forming time.
39
14
1906
How about a somewhat uncommon UV-reactive sapphire?
7
1
395