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Faceting Machines, Faceting and Me
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...
Desert Flower Tourmaline
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...
Cuprian Rubellite
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...
Color Change With A Twist
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...
Chemistry, Color, Canary Tourmaline, Elbaite 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...
Buffy a Rough Tourmaline
Stubby A Rough Sort of Tourmaline’s Quest for Success. Being long and thin is a natural for most tourmaline with my pedigree. And I am sure that is how I started out before the hand of man clipped my ends. I was kind of attached to my terminus, but if a good clipping...
Some Opinions on Nomenclature and Tourmaline
Why do we give things names? I think that its gives people a economical and convenient way to discuss something as long as both parties have the same thing in mind. I remember an endless argument with a reasonably intelligent roommate in college that was going nowhere...
I have been working my way threw the holidays
I have been working my way threw the holidays (2013) on a mixture of inter net surfing with some writing and cutting some new pieces of decent rough that I was finally able to get at a significantly higher price then in the recent past. As I worked hard to keep the...
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