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Meet Dave Austin from Stamford Lapidary
Lapidary: as far as I am concerned this is the craft of taking a lump of rough rock, be it semi precious rock or a lump of something interesting that I have found in the fields and through the process known as Lapidary, transforming it into an item of beauty that can be used in jewellery.
This is a very lengthy process because it involves various stages including sawing, shaping, sanding and finally polishing and maybe drilling as well. We also produce tumble stones as well in our rock tumblers, again this can be semi precious rock or just something interesting we have found, for example flint and pebbles really do polish up very well.
Wire Sculpture: I only recently discovered this craft while it was too cold to work out in the Lapidary workshop. In only a few months we have learnt how to create really beautiful wire tree sculptures, some we have attached gemstones on the branches, other we have flattened the twig ends to form leaves.
Our small workshop (ever evolving) contains 4 rock tumblers a rock saw, our homemade cabochon machine and a rock drill along with all of different rough rocks which will eventually be cut, shaped and polished for use in Shalini’s jewellery.
We also sell rough rock specimens for those interested in crystal healing or who just want some nice rock samples to display in the home or office. I keep a piece of Labradorite on my desk, it helps my imagination and creativity. Visit our Rough Rocks Shop
Contact Stamford Lapidary via Dave’s website www.roughrocks.co.uk or leave a message on this page.
You can also see Dave on
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stamford-Lapidary
- Twitter: twitter.com/roughrocks
Hi, Thanks for your message, We have forwarded you message to Stamford Lapidary
would you be interested in Horncastle Christmas market, Dec 11th 11-4pm, stalls are £20 or bring your own £15, please phone Sharon, 01507 524595
Dear Dave,
We are planning a Covent Garden style market (including street theatre) on Saturday 2nd July as part of Oakham Festival.
The market will be from 11.00am until 3.00pm, all the stalls are free but we are asking stall holders to provide their own tables on the day.
Would you be interested in coming to sell your jewelry and sculptures?
Kind regards
Alex and Sarah
I thought you might wish to Google H.G.M.S.(Houston Gem and Mineral Society) we have for sale from the lapidary section some new design Templates you might wish to have we create new ones every so often and sell extras to any interested that is if you haven’t already seen what we offer.
I myself cut besides standard shapes and sizes of stones dabble in intarsia and carving.
You have a really nice selection of rocks in your rocks shop. I’ll let my friends know about your site at my local lapidary club.
I like the wire work with the polished stones – very nice!
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Thank you. We have forwarded your information to Stamford Lapidary.
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