The Rough Rock Shop
The Rough Rock Shop will close for good on 24 October 2025, there is currently a 50% off sale on all items in the shop. We have a selection of rough rocks still available, but our tumble rough stock is now exhausted and will not be replenished. You can find the Rough Rock Shop shop […]
Stamford Lapidary
After quite a few years of being involved in the UK lapidary scene, I have decided to retire. What does this mean for Stamford Lapidary? Stamford lapidary is closed now. Well, I won’t be active in the field any more, I haven’t been for a while though! The workshop will be cleaned out and my […]
Small Rough Rock Slabs
Due to the size of our rock saw which has a blade diameter of 200mm or 8 inches we can’t cut very large rough rock slabs. Then take into account the vice on the saw and the size of the slabs reduces by about another 10mm or so. Even though using the vice decreases the […]
Lapidary Workshop Heater
Thanks heavens for trusty old lapidary workshop heater! Yesterday I had to do some work for one of Shalini’s clients. They had sent her some stones, not sure what they are, to be made into a pendant and two sets of earrings. To be honest I was a bit dubious about going out in the […]
Rock Saw Blade Change
The time had finally arrived for me to change the rock saw blade, as you can see from the picture it really is worn out! I reckon it’s been on the saw for about 5 years at least and has had some pretty rough treatment. So for a budget green blade it’s done very well […]
Rock Tumbler Spares
This range of Rock Tumbler Spares offers a broad coverage of the spares for the main UK rock tumbler manufacturers. This page is organised by general or generic spares first, for example: those that will fit on more than one manufacturers machines. Then it become more manufacturer specific, we cover Beach, Evans and Rotabarrel machine […]
Rock Tumbling Progress
Time to report on our rock tumbling progress after another week has passed us by. Yes the tumbling machines have been hard at it again 24/7 for the last 7 days. This morning they get to talk a short break while we empty the barrels and check the contents. Before I go on I just […]
Rock Tumbling – another weeks has passed
Our rock tumbling activities have been running at full tilt for the last 7 days, as we have had 9 barrels on the go. Something of a record for us I think, we even had to press an old machine that was given to us a long time ago into service. Before I go on, […]
Evans CR2 Rock Tumbler Replacement Motor
Evans CR2 Rock Tumbler Replacement Motor Our Evans CR2 Rock Tumbler recently stopped working properly. It would run for several hours and then just stop. Not only was it a problem that the machine had stopped. It was more of a problem because the motor was getting very hot and could have posed a fire […]