Our Home Made Cabachon Machine

Welcome to our article abut how we built our homemade cabochon machine, in all it cost about £250.00 including wheels, motor and shaft and everything else that went into it.

Here is a picture of the complete machine as you can see it’s relatively compact, none too pretty but it does the job.

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Homemade Lapidary Equipment

The cabachon machine has seen quite a lot of service since it was built last summer and has stood up to the test of time so far . . . → Read More: Homemade Lapidary Equipment

When is black agate not black agate – when its flint!

Well I had a “field day” no pun intended, as you can see from the picture I filled my boots, this field has lumps of flint all over the place. . . . → Read More: When is black agate not black agate – when its flint!

Black Agate – What A Find

I peered into a field and was amazed to see it was literally littered with lumps of agate . . . → Read More: Black Agate – What A Find

Carnelian Rough To Finished Pendant

Here we present a finished Carnelian pendant supported by a piece of rough Carnelian to illustrate the sorts of things we do in our workshop.

The cabachon was first cut as a slab from the rough rock and was then shaped on our cabachon machine and finally polished on a felt wheel with cerium . . . → Read More: Carnelian Rough To Finished Pendant

Time to prepare the workshop for use again

Timw to get the Lapidary workshop ready for use. . . . → Read More: Time to prepare the workshop for use again

Cutting and Polishing

Welcome to our messy world of Lapidary, yes Lapidary is very messy but extremely rewarding, . . . → Read More: Cutting and Polishing