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...
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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.
Picking the right jewelry for someone is just like looking for the right clothes to wear. Other people tend to see us on how we look and how we present ourselves. Wearing jewelries is optional but wearing these trinkets on different parts of our bodies tells a lot about us like our personal styling and fashion trend, financial capability and stature, and the deeper definition which is our personality. Lots of people define themselves by wearing jewelries by customizing and making their own... Read Full Story
The internet has proved a mighty solution to satisfy buyers with fast and easy tool to purchase goods. However, in the case of gemstones, it’s not likewise, always. Latest developments in gemstone treatments and artificial stones have made gemstone jewelry buying, a challenge. It’s a natural tendency of people to look for easier and convenient channels to get things done quickly and authentically. Finding a genuine dealer or a trustworthy shop, is as important as seeing a stone in person... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
I recently bought what was described as a Munjina Jasper. After some discussion on our forum , it was thought that in fact it was not Munjina Jasper, but Noreena Jasper.
I did a Google search and they sure do look a lot alike. Come to find out that another member, ImageOne (Ron), cleared up the confusion. He shared a discussion between himself and Glen Archer who is the owner of the Noreena claim. It is within a hundred miles of the Munjina claim.
They are both found in the same geologic... Read Full Story
I do enjoy working with the mineral Chrysocolla.
This particular Sanora Sunrise was new to me. Because of having much success lately with different Chrysocolla’s, I knew that I wanted to give this a whirl. My only first concern was because the seller had so much of it for sale, that there may be a chance it was blast mined. When people blast minerals from deposits, the end result is usually badly fractured material.
With this in mind thought it best to start with a smaller piece to see... Read Full Story
A follow up from last weeks entry about Morrisonite Jasper. We have talked a bit about this Morrisonite as well as some outstanding Willow Creek Jasper on our community forum as well.
After purchasing from Rare Rock and Gem’s site the other day, would like to share yet more of this great looking mineral. Have not yet decided for sure, but thinking back over all the various Jaspers I have cabbed for gemstone type jewelry, I am tempted to say this is my favorite to date. Right up there with... Read Full Story
