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Lapidary Tips

Tumbling stones is fun for all ages! Lapidary basic procedures, craft projects and more.
Are you into the rock tumbling hobby? Would you like to achieve a beautiful polish with your tumbled stones? Read our articles listed on vibratory or barrel tumbling. Other articles of interest include: basic lapping, common problems with sawing, saw guidelines, optimizing saw blade life, Mohs scale of hardness, how to make rock bugs and spiders. PLEASE NOTE: if any of these basic lapidary techniques articles are of interest, please feel free to click on "Print" to make a copy for your personal use.

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Assorted Lapidary Tips
Basic lapping procedures
Common problems when using your rock saw
Covington instructions, vibrating laps
Covington Little Sphere Maker- Introduction
Covington instructions, Little Sphere Maker
Decorated rock slabs instructions
Dopping gemstones
Grab bag pattern
How to break rocks for tumbling
How to make rock bugs and spiders
Lapidary tips for making spheres
Mohs Scale of Hardness
Myers freeform cabs with paper decals
Myers Tumbling Tips
Optimizing Saw Blade Life
Polishing Petoskey stone
Reclaiming saw oil
Sawing matched bookends
Slab sawing guidelines
Slabbing small or round rough rocks
Tumbling instructions for Thumler's Tumblers
Tumbling with rotary or barrel tumblers
Tumbling with vibratory tumblers
Tumbling 101, Banjo-Creek