by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Aug 18, 2021 | Cutting/polishing
Even though the world of diamonds and the world of colored gemstones share only the most basic of similarities, some of the grading of diamonds sneaks into the colored gem terminology used for tourmaline. The most egregious is the use of the whole list of acronyms...
by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Aug 14, 2021 | Cutting/polishing, Personal stories
At age 15, in 1962, I purchased my first faceting machine. I cut a relatively small number of mixed varieties of gems into my twenties. Running out of money for the hobby and facing many other obligations for my time, I did not facet again until a little over 20 years...
by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Aug 12, 2021 | Color in tourmaline
I have written about color change in tourmaline a lot on my website because the discovery of Laurellite, a cuprian tourmaline from Mozambique that has a reverse Alexandrite color change, is a principal reason for this site’s existence. The strong effect of...
by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Aug 12, 2021 | Personal stories
Some relationships are not worth pursuing and other ones will stand the test of time. In 2020, the year of the virus, it became very difficult to obtain rough from the only supplier that has weathered all the storms for twenty years. I hungered for work and a breath...
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