Your Lapidary creations, lets see yours! Options

[Tonyjoe-IL]

Hi Cp not sure exactly what those blue stones are I found those at a local fish shop,they had several pounds of it for sale as aquarium decorations.I bought all they had I have been out hunting in the last couple of days and found some nice agates. will post pics when I get them polished.

Later Tonyjoe

[CP]

Awesome Tonyjoe what ever they are....sure looks like it could be sodalite tho.
We would all love to see the new finds.

Thanks Jim......agates can be such a blast!!!

[toddarice]

Sorry. The agate is from the stoneham area. You would not believe all the stuff we find off hwy 72 or whatever it is. Banded agate, all other kinds of agate (i'm still learning this stuff ), barite (multiple variations), opal (common white), jasper, the list goes on and on. Oh, and a few rattlers. Julie doesn't like them too much, but they don't bother me!

The blue ones sure do look like sodalite to me! I'm not very good at this stuff yet (rock identification), but I searched on the net. I didn't find any sodalite with the red in it, though. But Lapis has red in it sometimes. I don't know. CP knows his stuff, so I'll agree with him .
Either way, buying them at the aquarium place was sure a great thing! Very pretty. They sure would look awesome in a wire wrap! Tonyjoe, what is the one at the head of the vial? It is cool.

Those rutilated sure are cool, CP. You and the better half sure are getting good at this stuff!

oh, and El Dorado sure does make the coolest stuff. I wanna be like him when I grow up! (a ways off......)

[Tonyjoe-IL]

Hi all sorry for not getting back on here in a while. Thanks for the Complements on my stones. Todd I am not sure what kind of rock the greenish one is it was one that I found here while prospecting In Illinois.I do know that it is very hard with small fractures through it. Unfortunatly I broke two of the three pieces that I had slabed While Hand sanding them.They together would have made a beautiful ear ring& necklace set. But that is the way things go sometimes.

Have a goodone
Tonyjoe-IL

[redrum]

Tell you what, I wear no jewelry. Just not something that I've ever gotten into. But there are some pieces here that I find stunning! Some of the cut stones make me drool. And El D's ring
I'd wear with pride, for sure. Gets me thinking about gifts...

[CP]

Thank you all for the compliments and the fine work posted here in this thread........it's turning out to be one of the forums best reads

Here some recent work from our lapidary and wire wrapping.

This one is a Dinobone pendant wrapped in sterling silver.

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[CP]

This one is turritella fossil and again wrapped in sterling silver for a pendant.

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[CP]

One more pendant wrapped....this one being a piece of green jade.

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[CP]

Another lapidary project from our shop have been stone guitar picks.
Which have been getting some rave reviews by players.
This one is Rutilated quartz.

I'll save the other guitar pick pics for the guitar pick thread.

Thanks again everyone and keep your pics comin' too!!

CP

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[CP]

Had to share this one.........A very pretty petrified wood set.
Pendant and ring maybe?

Enjoy.
CP

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[CP]

Thought I would pop in some Colorado Rutilated Quartz crystal cabs done recently.
The threads are very fine with a green tint.
The crystal pieces they were cut from had the green growth almost encrusting the pieces when these were raw.

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[CP]

Thought I would post a few pieces from some of our recent work.
First a group of dino bone cabs wrapped into sterling silver necklaces which are soon headed to STMS school in SC as part of this years online science lab classes.


and the sencond group of three pendants (2-sterling silver, 1 center-14k gold filled) and these are some new things I'm trying in the wraps.........which seemed to work out well? Dino bone - Fire Agate - Opalized Wood
Rocks sure can be cleaned up nicely.

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[CP]

And one more........
This is a custom piece we recently made for Faaus. Working closely with him to design this piece personally as you can see for his daughter. Whom he said absolutely loves it.
We sure had fun working on it.
Sodalite center stone with gold Faaus and his daughter prospected ......accent beads of amethyst and opal with 14 k gold filled solid mounts.

In person while the sun glistens off this piece the gold looks like nuggets!

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[jim]

WOW.......you two are definately craftsmen of a higher grade.Good ideas and great work. Keep up the good work.

[faaus]

I can say that I've wanted that type piece made for the last 10 years. The CP's GREATLY exceeded my wildest hopes by creating a piece that had meaning, as well as beauty!

Trust them for ALL your needs!

faaus