Post by silversummer on Sept 7, 2011 14:59:14 GMT -5
I am a newbie, and I don't want to remain a stranger. My name is Summer and I am wife of Erik who goes by ElectricMonk.
I copied his post about the equipment we have below. I made basic cabs when I was a kid, a science teacher in school who was a lapidary buff brought his seconds in equipment to our school and made a lapidary club that I participated in. I loved it! This was so many years ago, and one of my longtime loves has always been rock collecting, and I wonder at how ridiculously long it has taken to rediscover this long lost potential of working with stone. I am very excited to be here at this moment in life!
I believe, in addition to what my hubby wrote below, we also have a 6" slab saw we added to the mix! ;D
SilverSummer
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Once I have my work space organized I surely will, right now it is way too haphazard and everything is "in progress"...while I bury myself in rough lol
We also bought a new Covington 10" with power feed as well as a pair of trim saws, one is a Star Diamond, the other a "Poly products" with some jury rigged guard and shield attachments.
Bought a used Highland Park unit that has two inner wheels, two side flat plates (laps?) and a "thumper" that I have no desire to use. Will eventually replace that thumper and side plate with a hood system and a couple of smaller radius wheels (that is the plan as it stands).
Have a pair of poly arbors that I bought along with 4 expando drums, going to buy 4 Lortone hoods to use with those arbors and we should be set.
Also have a bull wheel polisher that we bought from a local fellow that makes them for a nice price.
Already had a Lortone tumbler though I now realize that I need more drums, already have cross contaminated them with grit so will have to use the two I have for coarse stuff and buy some more for finer grades, live and learn (which I learned right here in a tutorial on tumbling!).
This started out as a chain mail jewelry hobby, made about 10 necklaces, bracelets and whatnot for my wife. She did a bit of lapidary in high school and then never had another chance. Now the jewelry is going to be "stone oriented" so lapidary is a must.<<<
I copied his post about the equipment we have below. I made basic cabs when I was a kid, a science teacher in school who was a lapidary buff brought his seconds in equipment to our school and made a lapidary club that I participated in. I loved it! This was so many years ago, and one of my longtime loves has always been rock collecting, and I wonder at how ridiculously long it has taken to rediscover this long lost potential of working with stone. I am very excited to be here at this moment in life!
I believe, in addition to what my hubby wrote below, we also have a 6" slab saw we added to the mix! ;D
SilverSummer
>>>
Once I have my work space organized I surely will, right now it is way too haphazard and everything is "in progress"...while I bury myself in rough lol
We also bought a new Covington 10" with power feed as well as a pair of trim saws, one is a Star Diamond, the other a "Poly products" with some jury rigged guard and shield attachments.
Bought a used Highland Park unit that has two inner wheels, two side flat plates (laps?) and a "thumper" that I have no desire to use. Will eventually replace that thumper and side plate with a hood system and a couple of smaller radius wheels (that is the plan as it stands).
Have a pair of poly arbors that I bought along with 4 expando drums, going to buy 4 Lortone hoods to use with those arbors and we should be set.
Also have a bull wheel polisher that we bought from a local fellow that makes them for a nice price.
Already had a Lortone tumbler though I now realize that I need more drums, already have cross contaminated them with grit so will have to use the two I have for coarse stuff and buy some more for finer grades, live and learn (which I learned right here in a tutorial on tumbling!).
This started out as a chain mail jewelry hobby, made about 10 necklaces, bracelets and whatnot for my wife. She did a bit of lapidary in high school and then never had another chance. Now the jewelry is going to be "stone oriented" so lapidary is a must.<<<