Love the trip to the sisters rock yard. Looking forward to the 2nd installment. Thank you for all the things I learned. That one you sliced and showed in the tiktok clip was supercool . Love you love your work
Thank you my friend I love that material too it’s local to California I hear it’s pretty tough hard rock mining to get pieces of the seam but it’s worth it
Ohhhhhh and ahhhhhh! So much cool stuff!! I’m late to the party…but ‘bout fell over when you said Victorville…that’s where my family is from! (Back in the day). Awesome video, gonna go check more out!!
The white is hospice the square slab on tail gate is cap rock from houser beds rhyolite,agate, the green is pearlite. Ps I am the owner of big rock pile and bins. I love the vigil😍
this would be a dream job for me! just sitting all day and just sorting and looking at buckets upon buckets of stones, finding what is good, bad and othe wise! I live to love rocks and minerals
it’s a easy job to get into if you ever want to get into it let me know i’m always here to help i know almost everyone in the day industry so i can def point you in the right directions
Hey Lapidary Dave! That red and yellow rock in the beginning sure looks like the Alabama pain rock , I know a guy went up the coast for a couple years then was never heard from again
Dave where would you recommend buying turquoise rough from for starting cutting cans with. It’s hard because there are so many different types. I’ve started cutting opal it also would love to cut some turquoise. Thanks for any help bud love your videos thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Deberías de venir sonora yo me dedico a la minería y trabaje en cananea en la turquesa en mina de campitos ahorita estoy trabajando en un lugar donde se nos está dando el material shatukkite cuando vengas para acá reportate yo te llevo a los lugares donde hay material para pulir de esta región hay bastantes y de excelente calidad
Where can I get Turquoise nuggets ? Large ones, like Sleeping Beauty, Kingman, etc ? My shop burnt down due to arsenist activity and I had 5 gallon buckets of these and other turquoises. I used to trade with Navajos who would bring me buckets of each kind and cutting tailings of mixed turquoises. I stashed them back for retirement jewelry work and nothing survived the fire which was intense. I don't know how to get in touch with my old contacts in NM. I lived there for about six years and moved back out east to NC and that is where my state of the art jewelry studio burnt down. Any help you could offer in this would surely be appreciated. No doubt you are in Arizona in this video. Well, I hope you do well. I miss my lapidary and smithing tools. I am too old to rebuild but can get it together enough to bring back the joy in creativity. Take care now !
One dollar a pound! Y'all said undisclosed location, then who do they sell to? Haven't heard of mud fossil! Think I'll just avoid that, what you were holding was wood, petrified, but WAS wood..
You showed a photo and said something about petrified flesh. If that photo was your stone, that is a fetus, about 4 months along in estimation. So strange to see. Was that real??
it’s a photo of a real agate someone sliced and polished not a photo shop but is it really a baby i don’t know do i believe it could be absolutely truth can be much stranger the fiction
