Tag: What to Cut
What to Cut: Clear Creek Plasma Agate
By Russ Kaniuth
Clear Creek Plasma agate is one of those very unique materials found only in San Benito County, California, between Hollister and Coalinga...
What to Cut: Blue Tide Seam Agate
By Russ Kaniuth
Blue Tide seam agate is one of the newest finds in Garut, West Java, Indonesia.
The miners discovered it surrounding the pit where...
What to Cut: Rhodonite
By Russ Kaniuth
Rhodonite is a relatively common lapidary material and has been for well over a hundred years due to its popular pink colors....
What to Cut: Camo Picasso Marble
By Russ Kaniuth
Each year many old materials are depleted and become rare or hard to find, but at the same time, there are new...
What to Cut: Composite Material (Part II)
By Russ Kaniuth
In the May issue, I discussed making composite materials out of natural stone and epoxy, this month I’d like to venture further...
What to Cut: Blue Apatite
By Russ Kaniuth
Apatite comes in an array of color variations from all over the world, but the most sought out in lapidary is the...
What to Cut: Caldera Paint Jasper
By Russ Kaniuth
Caldera Paint Jasper is another great find from the McDermitt area on the Oregon side of the border. Gary Green jasper was...
What to Cut: Mindful of Maligano Jasper
By Russ Kaniuth
Maligano Jasper is named after a small village in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This material was originally found about six to seven years ago,...
What to Cut: Turning to Turquoise
By Russ Kaniuth
Turquoise is one of the most prestigious stones used in lapidary. It’s been used for thousands of years, even as far back...
What to Cut: Covellite
By Russ Kaniuth
Covellite is one of those materials that has no real use, except to a rock collector or lapidary! It’s a copper mineral...
