Gemstone Lapidary Cabochon Jewelry Supply and Discussion Forum

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...

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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Unique Trollbeads Collection

Written by apricotmousse on
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 and Trollbeads as well as trollbeads ebay offers this kind of feature.  They offer differently designed and colorful pieces of jewelry ... Read Full Story

Online Jewelry Shopping: 5 Tips to Ease Up

Written by Angarastones on
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 rather than in picture. However, now, due to trusted ecommerce, there is trusted gemstone shopping. Selling an array of assorted, exquisite precious gemstone jewelry ... Read Full Story

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

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

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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