Fifty years ago I started cutting my first cab. My father had found a new creative out let for me at the erging of my mother who was afraid I might blow up the house playing around with my wonderful chemistry set. Two years later, at fifteen, I was determined to try...
Putting the new recruits through basic training has become a major effort for the tourmaline tribes. Each bright face must be tested under different lights and placed in the constellation of stars sparkling in the mind of the cutter. This is not as uniform as you...
Crushed by Bruce Fry The following effort to discuss a member of the wonderful family of related minerals called tourmaline comes from diverse, mostly informal sources. Outside of direct experience with red tourmaline from Mozambique, I do not have the resources to...
A Special Tourmaline. Color Change With A Twist. There are pieces of rough that will never be cut. They may have come in a lot or by themselves and it is sad to see them site on my kitchen windowsill rejected. The piece of rough that came to be the special tourmaline...
The choice of what to write on this page finds it roots in surfing the internet. There are many parts of the saga of tourmaline that I could not care less about, whether they are true or not. My indifference to tourmaline’s mystic and health issues keeps me from...
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