Gemstone Lapidary Cabochon Jewelry Supply and Discussion Forum

TaoGem supplies inexpensive interesting unique and unusual gemstones. beautiful loose cut gemstones. Cut, faceted and polished designer gemstones for making custom hand made gemstone jewelry, and other gemstone related art work. TaoGem will also custom cut gemstones to order in our unique lapidary shop.

A few gemstone cabochon examples are lapis, charoite, fossil coral, lots of different jasper, like ocean jasper, biggs jasper, picture jasper, bruneau jasper, mokaite jaspers, and more. Pietersite, turritella shell fossil, all kinds of agate, like luna agate, dendritic agate, thunderegg agate, plume agate, cathedral agate, moss agate, java and painted agate. Crinoid limestone, mawsitsit, calsilica, turquoise, phoshposiderite, opal, cameo, sagenite, calcite, and a variety of jasper intarsia and calsilica intarsia. Wholesale gemstone lots and parcels available too.

Our individual gemstone directory and our earring cab pair directory offer a great many gemstone minerals in cabochon form. Expert and novice alike will find TaoGem an invaluable resource for quality gems.

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Undercutting Gemstone Cabochons - Minerals and Abrasives - Preforming

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For most Lapidaries, cutting gemstone cabochons has most likely resulted in at least a few undercutting experiences. For the purpose of this blog entry, I wanted to post a bit about undercutting as related in dealing with combined soft and hard mineral compositions . Different from that of flat spots that result from sanding and or polishing across sharply rounded cabochon corners and or edges as an example. “Undercutting” occurs when softer grains in the rock grind down faster than the harder grains and you end up with a pock-marked effect - some people call it an “orange peel effect. Look at the way ... Read Full Story

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Rutile / Rutiliated Quartz Gemstone Cabochon Bezel Jewelry Design

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Members on my forum join in with bi monthly semiprecious gemstone cabochon contests . This time instead of picking a particular mineral this time we are doing any mineral type in freeform. Any way, as a result I ended up choosing Titainium Rutile in Quartz for my entry. Wanted to share my limited experience working with rutile minerals. The very first example for me was black Tourmaline in quartz. Then as a result of choosing a rutile Quartz for this cabochon contest this Gold Titainium Rutile in Quartz is only my second experience with rutile minerals. Here is a pic of the piece I ... Read Full Story

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Tutorial Guide Making Assembled Gemstone Cabochons

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Bob Rush of Bobs Premium Cabs shared this assembled gemstone tutorial with our forum members . Although not the same thing, it reminded me of the domed intarsia type cabs that a few members make and have shared. theImageOne shared his tutorial about those. Like Bobs assembled cabochons, they are glued too. Here is Bobs Tutorial and of course all credit for this blog entry goes to Bob. He was kind enough to let me add it here to my blog. It is really extremely interesting and the technique he uses with glass and the various tumbling grits is new, unique and not something ... Read Full Story

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Buffing and Polishing Procedures for Gemstone Jewelry with Silver or Gold Metal Design Mediums

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Buffing and Polishing Procedures Are The final steps required for finishing all metal articles. Buffing removes sanding marks and smooths out the metal in preparation for the final polishing. Any pits, scratches, or minute file or sanding marks overlooked when buffing are only accented by the polishing step. Polishing adds only color, brightness, and luster to the metal surface. Buffing Buffing removes from the surface a thin film of metal equal to the depth of the scratch or mark, and therefore excessive buffing will only werar away precious metal, including any square corners that might be a part of the design. Whenever possible, parts ... Read Full Story

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Gemstone Cabochon Multi Setting Jewelry Sets for Jewelry Design

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Been having fun again with more multi gemstone groups that are excellent for jewelry designing.. Especially if your a silversmith and like interesting and unique pieces.. What makes the group gemstone cabochon sets a little more interesting, is the way they are cut from the original mineral slab. Somewhat similar to making a quality pair of earrings. Except instead of using back to back slabs for matching grains on each earring, these sets are cut from the same area off an area from the slab.. Done patiently, a nice contour of the grains will flow through the entire group of gemstones within the settings ... Read Full Story

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