Does anyone do Lapidary?

[Tengu]

Just curious.

 

[Toddy]

A little; why ?

M

 

[ged]

SWMBO had an idea of doing it once, I made her a tumbler thing with an electric motor but she never got around to using it.

Watch out for the acetylene.

 

[Tengu]

I found a table saw at the car boot, wondering about its applications.

 

[toilet digger]

eh?

 

[Toddy]

Not unless it's got a diamond edged blade and a water bath underneath.

M

 

[Tengu]

yes, it has all of those.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Sounds like you might have an electric tile cutter.

 

[toilet digger]

could anyone illuminate me as to what lapidary is (i haven't googled it to heighten the excitement) ?

 

[crosslandkelly]

Stone polishing?

 

[Tengu]

Oh, I admire your doubt.

C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\Diamond Saw Cutting Machines and Cabmasters for Lapidary, Slicing, Grinding, Polishing and Cutting Rock_.htm

Its the top one.

 

[toilet digger]

Stone polishing?

oh, thanks.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Oh, I admire your doubt.

C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\Diamond Saw Cutting Machines and Cabmasters for Lapidary, Slicing, Grinding, Polishing and Cutting Rock_.htm

Its the top one.

Link not working.

 

[Toddy]

There are a fair number around. Expensive to buy new, but you never get your money back on them unless you're not only an active stone fossiker *and* prepared to spend a lot of time turning them into something that will sell.
Ours was bought for the interest of seeing what was inside the geodes we found when out walking

I know someone who took it up, and gave up tumbling or cutting and polishing his own stones, but instead scoured the shingle beaches after rain looking for small pretty stones. He mounted them in pendant mounts and gave them a coat of varnish
It works incredibly well to make shiny looking pebble jewellery, and it sells too.

cheers,
M

 

[Tengu]

http://www.ukge.co.uk/

Look under lapidary supplies, cutting.

 

[crosslandkelly]

http://www.ukge.co.uk/

Look under lapidary supplies, cutting.

Is that what you've got? When you said table saw, I thought woodworking tools.

 

[Tengu]

Yes, that is what I have got. Nifty eh?

Toddy. How do you recognise an uncut geode??

 

[crosslandkelly]

Well done you. Will this be a side line?

 

[Tengu]

No idea.

Im fastinated by stones but the very mention of crystal magic and I fly into a homicidal rage.

 

[SteveW]

You need amethyst or maybe agate to calm you down a bit then......