I have taken to visiting youtube in the last year or so because I get to see what many people see about tourmaline and gems in general. It also gives me ideas for posts on this website. The following story of cutting a piece of tourmaline starts with a less than an...
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...
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...
Collectors and lovers of tourmaline should be tolerant of inclusion in tourmaline to appreciate the full glory of tourmaline color. This opinion has grown up over the years of cutting tourmaline, in part out of necessity and in part out of a growing appreciation of...
I have run into many pieces of tourmaline rough that appear to be well-shaped to cut an emerald cut with great weight retention, but they have an awkward length to width ratio. I generally shy away from this kind of rough because of technical problems in both cutting...
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