by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Sep 11, 2023 | Fantasies, Personal stories
This is your flash reporter from inside the tourmaline temple in Mars Pa. The outside of this sacride place looks much like any other small two story red house with a big front porch and a flat roofed dormer built in 192 ,but inside the emotions of hundreds of...
by Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | Jun 1, 2023 | Personal stories
With working on my site and the pandemic’s disruption of available blue tourmaline rough, my tourmaline world has become more uncertain and less productive. Still I want to share a long awaited color event that helps keep me on the quest for more beauty in...
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...
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