Gemstone Cabochon Tutorial

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Great job of it Sara, its looking good! Both the metalwork and the cab.  You have quite a bit of sparkle showing in the stone, very nice. I really like your layered metals although I have to admit my ignorance and say that I have no idea what Nugold i...

Well:) this sure dont look like it should have taken three hours to do and I am just talking about the cab not the metalsmithing.I didnt take a picture of the rough but I can show you my thumb and my scruffed up finger as proof I surely did this cab:)...

  *blinks* Oh, how I wish I had a slab saw after looking at those pics. *looks across room at combo unit w/ 6" saw and pouts*

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38 x 29 x 5 and 14.50 grams Sharp cornered smoothed edges. Also has a touch of Marcasite ...

30 x 29 x 5 and 7.50 grams Very slightly domed with smooth rounded edges.

33 x 26 x 5 and 9.40 grams Smooth rounded edges. There is a very slight pitting on the back edge as shown by the arrow. If this is going into a bezel type setting then no problem.

34 x 28 x 6 and 13.30 grams Slightly domed with smooth rounded cornered edges

Each stone is 20 x 16 x 4 Total weight for both are 6.60 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed cornered edges

25 x 24 x 4 and 5.0 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed cornered edges.

30 x 19 x 6 and 7.30 grams Semi domed with rounded edges.

43 x 31 x 5 and 13.30 grams Slightly domed with smoothed edges. A little different angle on the lighting in one image so as to see the beautiful flame affect !

46 x 26 x 5 and 20.1 grams Slightly domed with rounded edges

40 x 30 x 5 and 11.50 grams Slightly domed with rounded edges

49 x 38 x 4 and 15.10 grams Slightly domed with sharp smoothed edges

52 x 25 x 4 and 8.50 grams Slightly domed with smoothed sharp edges.

50 x 25 x 5 and 8.30 grams Very slightly domed with rounded edges

53 x 26 x 4 and 11.70 grams Semi domed with sharp but smooth edge

23 x 25 x 5 and 7.90 grams Semi domed with rounded edges.

33 x 16 x 2 and 4.2 grams total Flat faced with beveled edges

26 x 12 x 3 and 4.3 grams total. Flat faced with beveled edges

37 x 14 x 3 each,and 7.50 grams total Very slightly domed with beveled edges

28 x 17 x 5 and 5.80 grams Slightly domed with smoothed edges

29 x 21 x 5 and 7.0 grams Very slightly domed with smoothed edges.