New Gemstone Pendants

I've been polishing rocks lately and have a few new wire wrapped pendants to show!   

Polished Natural Garnet

This baby was a lot of work to polish! Each plane has to be polished from start to finish and then you start on another! I ended up having to put a dot of white-out on each face so I could keep track of which were polished and which where not.  It's a nice large size too!  Wrapped in copper wire for a different look.

Natural Round Polished Chrysocolla Gemstone

Chrysocolla is one of my favorite stones!  It is a member of the copper family and a close relative to turquoise. I prefer the high polish that I can acheieve on chrysocolla over turquoise myself.  This one is also wrapped in copper which compliments that natural stone.

Howlite

And last for this evening is a natural cabochon of Howlite which I cut and polished then wirewrapped in copper.  Howlite has been mistakenly called white buffalo turquoise for many years.  It is actually a total different mineral family and bears no relations to turquoise.   This stone polishes to an almost mirror bright polish.  A rough chunk of this stone looks rather like a dirty califlower!   There are grey lines that run through the stone.  This particular piece has little to no grey in it and is almost a pure white.  A nice piece.

What's coming up!

I am currently working on some rare and collectible stones that I have been saving.   I will start posting them as I finish them.  There will be a Lapis from Afganistan that is the most wonderful blue I think I have ever seen; a Biggs Picture Jasper that has super pictures; a blue and golden tiger eye that is eye catching; a red, yellow and blue tiger eye that is the last I have; a Gem Silica that is special; a purple charolite from Russia and last, but in no way least, a piece of purple Bertrandite which has see through opal lines and black dendrites that make up the most interesting pictures!   Stay tuned!