The Michigan Silversmith Guild offered lapidary instruction at the Toledo Gem & Rockhound Club, located within the Toledo (Ohio) Botanical Gardens. It was a 60 min. drive and there was terrible snow filled roads in the morning. The normal 65 - 70 mph was creeping along at 45 mph. Luckily the ride home at 3:30 was back to normal.
Loved the experience of using the trim saw to cut out the oval shape from a slab of jasper. The grinding and pre-polish process included 6 different diamond gradations. While my stone is on the rather small size, 16x11, it will make a great stone for a ring. I don't consider the natural hole in the stone to be a flaw, but the inherent characteristics of mother nature. I may add a diamond there.
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