Includes an introduction to cabochon cutting.Bloodstone is a dark green variety of chalcedony adorned with a spatter of bright red. This is our favorite book for a person who does rock tumbling and now wants to make beads, pendants, and other jewelry from tumbled stones. Gemstone Tumbling, Cutting, Drilling and Cabochon Making (by Jim Magnuson and Val Carver). It has about 100 pages of basic gemstone information and about 200 pages dedicated to photos and descriptions of over 100 gems and gem materials. One of the most popular gemstone books ever written, with over one million copies sold. Gemstones of the World (fifth edition) by Walter Schumann. You will increase your abilities, learn to save time and money, and have a great reference book that you will use again and again. In this book you will learn from an expert with extensiveĮxperience. Learning is the fastest way to improve the quality of rocks that you tumble. Will you receive any oversize? undersize? or "country rock"? Yes! Will every piece make a perfect stone? No! Two-pound packages of Dragon Blood are made from a random grab of rough from our dragon stone barrel. Both methods worked great, but we got a slightly better polish in vibratory and more nicely rounded stones in rotary. Some was tumbled start-to-finish in Thumler's rotary tumblers ( A-R1 and A-R2), and some was tumbled in rotary for the coarse grit step and then in vibratory ( UV-10 or Lot-O) for the medium, fine, and polishing steps. We tumbled a few barrels of Dragon Blood using our " Tumbling Instructions for Jasper, Agate, and Other Hard, Tenacious Materials". If your material was sold as "tumbling rough" you should ask the vendor for tumbling instructions. Stones from other sources may require a different procedure. * Tumbling properties are for the stones being sold here. Also, after the polishing step, we recommend immediate burnishing with Ivory bar soap. We recommend prompt cleaning when it is removed from the barrel so any rock mud is cleaned off before the surface of the stone dries. (2) Many pieces of Dragon Blood have small openings and surface porosity that can trap grit and polish. If your tumbler runs at a speed of more than about 70 RPM, your Dragon Blood is likely to be bruised. (1) Although Dragon Blood is very hard and durable, we don't recommend it for use in tumblers with a rapid barrel rotation. The stones that we polished in vibratory tumblers had a slightly higher polished luster. We tumbled dragon blood in rotary tumblers with good results using our " Tumbling Instructions for Jasper, Agate, and Other Hard, Tenacious Materials". Pieces of rough are 1/2 inch to 2 inches (measured across the maximum dimension) If you want to try an exciting and different material, this might be it!Įpidote (green), piemontite (red), quartz (gray), many minor constituentsĦ+ to 7 across most of the rock - with some soft spots It shapes quickly and polishes well using our " Tumbling Instructions for Jasper, Agate, and Other Hard, Tenacious Materials". We tumbled a few barrels of dragon stone, and it was always fun to open the barrel and see the bright dragon blood colors. It also has a very good tenacity that gives it durability in a rotary tumbler and when it is used to make utility objects. Its primary constituents have a hardness of 6+ to 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Now Dragon Blood is becoming popular and you can find it as tumbled stones, cabochons, beads, small sculptures, and more.ĭragon Blood is a very durable stone. It was almost unknown before about 2015 - when it was first produced and marketed out of South Africa. New to the Lapidary Marketĭragon Blood is a relatively new stone to the gem and jewelry market. A few of our favorite tumbled stones made from tumbling this dragon blood rough.
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