@@nunyabisnass1141 its quite a short story.... one day in a brick works, a brick came fresh out of the kiln and was sent off to be part of a house. The house was built probably quite close to a river estuary, then at some time later the house was demolished and one of the bricks ended up at the waters edge. Quite possibly it was a house that was destroyed in world war two, the rubble carried away and dumped on a beach,. over time with the tide, it will have eroded away and moved about, possibly miles from where it began. then one day, it was picked up, polished and shaped into a stunning pendant.....
Lapidary saws grind the don't "cut" like a wood saw, the blades are diamond tipped on encrusted, not jagged saw teeth(the image most people see) IYKYK😂😂😂
Limb Casts are created when agate is deposited in cavities formed by tree branches covered by volcanic ash. The wood burns away after being covered by the hot ash. Under the right conditions agate fills the empty space. The result is a piece of agate that has the form of a tree limb, hence the name limb Cast. For everyone who has no idea why he's calling a stone 'conifer', which is a pine tree, and wth does 'limb cast' even mean. Ah. FINALLY, at the end of the video, he mentions the red material is jasper. instead of calling it a pine tree.
Thank you. I find so many that look like pet wood but aren't. I didn't know. And living in the deep south, with an area that has several paper mills, that were lumber company land a century ago, I find a lot of them. But would a limb cast have rings, like a limb would?
Great job on the beach rock. I also love to find ordinary stones and polish them. I started out tumbling then joined a rock club and learned the slab to cab process. When Covid hit I ended up purchasing the Hi-Tech slant lap and am in the process of improving my cabbing skills at home. I do some wire wrapping of my stones or others that I buy and enjoy the process. Nice to see a fellow Canadian here doing this work.
Wow! Crazy beautiful how that red rock has changed. That rock was so beautiful after you slabbed it! And it made just a gorgeous pendant! Thank you for taking us along on this journey Jason! 😮
I love red jasper stones. They are plentiful on my Oregon rocky beaches along with many other colors. I even named my little dog Jasper ! It has always amazed me how a specially designed diamond lapidary blade will only cut hard materials such as stone and glass and not human flesh or any soft materials. 😄
I love watching things like this just to see the true amount of work, artistry and care it takes to make something that sounds as simple as “just a stone pendant” that we kinda all take for granted
Love it❤, amazing final result. Don't listen to the haters and cyber bullies, they're just jealous of your skills/talent... And No, that is not a brick but a natural red stone that is millions of years old and it's stunning!!
This rock turned into a beautiful stone in the hands of a master gem cutter! This video reminds me of my friend, Jim Livesay, and his sweet wife, Jackie, who cut buckets of gemstones for me many years ago in Franklin, North Carolina. Though Jim and Jackie are probably gone now, I still cherish the beautiful work Jim did for me and I laugh when I recall the summer of the Perfect Garnet Hunt! RIP dear friends! I hope that if Heaven needs some of their gemstones replaced, they'll rely on the world's best cutter to do it! The Garnet Lovin' Gal
Awesome! I love stones where the closer you look, the more beautiful and interesting they become. You did a great job bringing out this stone’s uniqueness!
I'm a silversmith the last 7years, but I'm mad about geology n gems too and started to dabble in cuttin and polishing stones myself.. I live in Ireland, and we get something similar on our beaches here, but I think ours is a sandstone and yours is an agate is it? Not familiar with the name of the rock you said at the start. Sorry I'm kinda green when it comes to what's what but long as I'm being creative then I'm winning. Awesome video, really enjoyed it. You got my subscription too Bud 👍🏼
Hi Ken and welcome to our channel! This rock is actually a limb cast of a conifer tree from the Jurassic period (206MYA). It is indeed made of Agate and red jasper and takes a super fine polish. Sandstone is a softer stone but will take somewhat of a polish if the clay content is low. I wish i had silver smithing skills to make my own bezels!
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The rocks on the beach are predominantly gray in color, among which you will find red Jasper stones. Quality stone. This type of stone is very much in my place, if you need it I can get it. Greetings from Indonesian agate hunters
Wow...love this. Turned out beautifully! Your fingers....ahhhh!!!!! At the diamond cutter, found myself closing my eyes haha. From one north shore rock junkie to another......fantastic. unique. Subscribed. 😊
HI Carole and welcome! I get that a lot about the fingers. In fact i have been meaning to make a video about it. This particular blade is a sintered lapidary diamond blade. It grinds and does not slice. I can place my finger on the blade and it won't cut because of the low surface tension of my finger.
As a rock and brick mason for 30 years I've bumped my fingers into a diamond blade several times. Just a little burn unless you push very hard. Not like a wood blade
Absolutely stunning ! Your skills are obviously much more than average. Your doing the work that you have been born to do ....and many years from this lifetime people will know your name because your creations will be Valuable and very much sought after.
With all said below, the gentleman is definitely talented. If he teamed up with a silversmith, they could create some stunning one-of-a-kind creations. The stone could have been polished with out having to change it's shape & made into a unique pendant with a polished but knobby back. I would have wanted to buy it,
Very nice, I'd definitely wear that! Most of us will never know the hidden beauty in the thousands of rocks we walk over at the beach! Looks like a very satisfying and rewarding hobby or job, well done!!
Wow! That is a lot of intricate work. I don't think I could have my fingers close to the rotating saw like that...Zoiks! The finished work is absolutely beautiful.
The red actually looks like red Jasper (on my laptop anyway). I've made ALOT of stone pendants, but I drill them rather than mount them, as you then are ''carving-by-grinding'' what amounts to small 3D sculptures, which feel really lovely in the hand. Have used alot of Serpentine from Cornwall (U.K...) which can have the most amazing colours and patterns . Try looking down by the waves...see the colours easier....wet! Good job!
Oh it turned out so beautiful and I love the bezel style that you said it in I used to be a Jeweler's apprentice a long time ago and he actually taught me how to make each individual little piece around the edge and then solder them on the side it took longer but it was so fascinating thank you for the closeup I love it all....
Once while in Grad School I had an opportunity to learn how to make "thin sections." The most amazing aspect was a single pass the thickness of a hair across the blade revealed a whole new world of life in a rock.
The way you cut "thin sections" is to glue a chunk of rock to a clear acrylic sleeve (just like used under a microscope) and shave it down, layer after layer until it is so thin that light can be tranmitted through it. Since most rock will in some way contain microscopic single celled organisms or plant particles a researcher can study and photograph them visually.
Good work Jason, yes very addictive. I can comb a beach in search of a good piece for hours and I just love it. Does not matter what you find, it’s just beautiful being there.
I was never so nervous watching someone saw something. It seemed like your fingers were so close to the blade. The pendant is beautiful. And you have your fingers and thumbs!
Actually, a diamond saw will not cut your fingers---well, maybe if you really pushed it--but diamond blades are imbedded on the side edges with bits of diamond that 'chop' through the rock as you feed it into the blade. The blades are not actually sharp at the tips nor does the cutting action stem from the tip of the blade.
I’ve found some beautiful brecciated jasper on the beach -these stones were red, black, and w white quartz I was surprised to even randomly find such beautiful specimens on the beach in Hull, MA And I would love to be able to slice some of my stones *I’ve excavated some of a huge quartz vein that runs through my dads yard, found gold in some, too! (He filled the hole back in and we have lots of big quartz around the yard now, tho I’d love to dig it back out and see how far it goes)
I'm partial to jaspers and chalcedony? You did an excellent job cutting and polishing the stone. Thanks for sharing. Be happy, safe and stay healthy. 😷⚒
Super pretty stone. I’m partial to the two colors you were looking for also. I saw that you decided to use the non circle side for your top. Funny when you have it worked out in your head and then see a more beautiful scene on the other side. Hehe. Thanks for sharing! Nice work ⭐️🔴⭐️ Stay Crystal 💫 Mari Love your channel. So nice to see your boys involved. I too have boys that come along ❤
Great job, looks fantastic. I've been collecting rocks and fossils for a little under a year and a half and I will say it is beyond addicting. That started off with a small ammonite kicked off to more fossils and petrified wood that I can display. I'm getting into lapidary and I have been building up my materials bank and have been getting tools/hardware to make it so I can be more involved with the custom side of it all. I just put together a wet tile saw and tomorrow will be my first time using it. It's super exciting taking something rough and seemingly unremarkable only to transform it into something beautiful. I wish I got into all this years ago but I'm happy to be doing it now. With your lapidary saw, what would something that size cost? The tile saw can cut 2.25 inches thick so 4.50 if I cut on top then bottom with my seven inch saw blade. It seems like the jump from a seven inch blade to a ten inch is pretty expensive, but I can't cut some of the really nice rough slabs I've gotten with less than six inches, seven to be overkill with little exception. It would be nice to not drop a grand on one but I'm sure I'll have to take the plunge eventually.
Beautiful work, but I’ve got admit when I watch you cut the rock with the saw with no guards I prayed I wouldn’t witness your finger being cut off. It gave me a new appreciation for cut and polished rocks
Jaspers aren’t what I consider ordinary beach rocks, stones, on the other hand, yes. And they come in a variety of colors, red, yellow, dark green, light green, black, brown, and all the colors of jasper in one. Then there’s agate jasper, let’s not forget about that beautiful stone. I live here in Oregon on the north central coast, south of Sandlake. A broken carnelian fishing point I found in the surf is one of my best finds ever.
Very interesting. The final setting is so nice. The red color of the stone reminds me of a rare red coral. My former East Indian doctor wore a ring with the red coral.
Another great video with a beautiful cab! I'm seriously considering buying the high-tech slab saw. I'm wondering how you get even thickness slabs. I have used a tile saw to cut and slab rocks but it's hard to get even thickness. Is there some sort of guide that comes with it or are you just eyeballing it? Thanks in advance and really enjoy your videos ❤
Hi Tracy, I use the vice accessory with my 10" slab saw. It lets you get even slabs. You can use our code RHLIFE at checkout to get 10% off all accessories. Our Hitech Diamond affiliate link is in the description of all our videos.
@@RockhoundingLife thanks! I've watched several of your videos of you using the slab saw but you were freehanding it. Good to know there's an attachment to get even thickness. Thanks for the tip! 😊
Nice work. I did that with a stone i found using a wire diamond saw and a diamond disc on a dremel in a jug of water. The stone was slabbed, mounted to a stick, domed and polished...fitted to a ring. I need proper tools like you have. Next im training in gem carving to make it a signet ring.
