Post by KathyG on Mar 22, 2015 12:36:13 GMT -5
Well I am so sick of waiting for my stones to be tumbled so I can wrap them and have decided to bite the bullet and order some wrappable stuff. I've been really wanting to wrap some faceted gemstones. What I want to do is wrap them in my parawire and then once I get really good I will just take the stones out of the parawire and re-wrap them in good wire.
I want to give my mother in law a really nice birthday present soon and I have a feeling that she will really love a gemstone rather than a tumbled stone or crystal.
So. My question is Where is the best place to get faceted gemstones (natural preferred, not man-made) that are big enough to wrap? I guess more than 4 carats in size would be big enough?
I saw some on eBay that said 100 + carats of mixed faceted gemstones for like $21 and upon further research realized they were waayyyy too small. THe description for 'size' said 3 carats to .10 carat accents. Maybe on purpose that was meant for the buyer to think it was up to 10 carats in size. Of course, you can't tell in the picture, they give no reference for size. I happened to find a picture of the same set of gemstones on someone's blog that had a tweezer as a size reference. The whole bunch was smaller than the tweezers! Thank god I didn't order it.
I saw on gemsbymail.com they have… from their website, priced at $99.99:
"Each order is for one (1) velvet drawstring bag of faceted gemstones totaling 101 carats in weight. The gemstones vary in size between 1 and 5 carats each with the average size gemstone weighing 1 - 3 carats. The estimated retail value of each bag will be at least a thousand dollars.
These very large lots of gemstones may include the following types of gemstones: Alexandrite, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, Emerald, Garnet, Iolite, Morganite, Peridot, Quartz, Rhodolite, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, and Topaz, in the following shapes emerald, heart, oval, pear, round, marquee, and trillion. This very large lot of finished stones contains all NATURAL gemstones. All the gemstones can go directly into a ring, pendant or earring setting. All the gemstones are absolutely gorgeous as the picture above indicates. These gem bags would make a great gift for the collector, investor, or the person who just loves gems or jewelry"
Do you think those would be good to wrap? They also have for about $75, the same as above except a few are man-made.
We don't have any rocks/crystals/gem shows nearby nor any wholesale places (pitfalls of living in a touristy-seasonal town, we have nothing around us the way most folks do).
Any advice? Thank you so much!
Kathy
I want to give my mother in law a really nice birthday present soon and I have a feeling that she will really love a gemstone rather than a tumbled stone or crystal.
So. My question is Where is the best place to get faceted gemstones (natural preferred, not man-made) that are big enough to wrap? I guess more than 4 carats in size would be big enough?
I saw some on eBay that said 100 + carats of mixed faceted gemstones for like $21 and upon further research realized they were waayyyy too small. THe description for 'size' said 3 carats to .10 carat accents. Maybe on purpose that was meant for the buyer to think it was up to 10 carats in size. Of course, you can't tell in the picture, they give no reference for size. I happened to find a picture of the same set of gemstones on someone's blog that had a tweezer as a size reference. The whole bunch was smaller than the tweezers! Thank god I didn't order it.
I saw on gemsbymail.com they have… from their website, priced at $99.99:
"Each order is for one (1) velvet drawstring bag of faceted gemstones totaling 101 carats in weight. The gemstones vary in size between 1 and 5 carats each with the average size gemstone weighing 1 - 3 carats. The estimated retail value of each bag will be at least a thousand dollars.
These very large lots of gemstones may include the following types of gemstones: Alexandrite, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, Emerald, Garnet, Iolite, Morganite, Peridot, Quartz, Rhodolite, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite, and Topaz, in the following shapes emerald, heart, oval, pear, round, marquee, and trillion. This very large lot of finished stones contains all NATURAL gemstones. All the gemstones can go directly into a ring, pendant or earring setting. All the gemstones are absolutely gorgeous as the picture above indicates. These gem bags would make a great gift for the collector, investor, or the person who just loves gems or jewelry"
Do you think those would be good to wrap? They also have for about $75, the same as above except a few are man-made.
We don't have any rocks/crystals/gem shows nearby nor any wholesale places (pitfalls of living in a touristy-seasonal town, we have nothing around us the way most folks do).
Any advice? Thank you so much!
Kathy
