My new pieces from the last few weeks

How Do You Do That?

I have had many people ask how the stone cutting process works. On the 16th while I was working I took some pictures of the the basic steps in the process.


Step 1: Select your stones.



Step 2: Decide where to cut and mark it.

Marking the Crazy Lace Agate

Marking the Crazy Lace Agate

Marking the Crazy Lace Agate

Marked Obsidian Mahogony

Marked Petrified Wood

Step 3: Use the small saw to make the rough cuts and remove the piece I want to work with from the slap of stone.

Here are a couple of the pieces I have rough cut.
The substance they are sitting in removes the oil left by the saw.

Step 4: I attach a dowel with wax to help hold stone in place.

The machine to grind and polish the stones.

Step 5: Grinding the edges off of the rough cut piece stone. This is a piece of the petrified wood.

Step 6: Polish the stone. This is a piece of Obsidian Mahogany.

Completed Stones

These are the stones I finished on 9-16-2009

Stones Cut on 9-16-2009

All the Stones I cut on 9-16-2009

Agate

Crazy Lace Agate

Crazy Lace Agate

Crazy Lace Agate

Obsidian Mahogany

Petrified Wood

Picture Jasper

Sodalite

Teotihuacan..Mexican Obsidian..this one is mine

This is the blue piece of Petrified Wood...the pictures don't do it justice.
It is a blue grey with brown and tan