I have a fantastic and quite large green granite boulder I would like to have formed into a slab and later a tombstone. Where in the Northern Michigan area can I find someone that does this kind of thing?? Thanks!

Exceptional and Beautiful 8.4" Old China White Jade Carving Fengshui 12 Zodiac Year Horse Statue, It is in Exceptional Condition, and was created by skilled craftsmen in traditional style with fine hand crafts. This is a great piece of valuable collection, a valuable personal alter or a very good present. The handwork is very fine with incredible detailing and Very Rare. White Jade is a kind of Tremolite Jade witch is a variety of Nephrite A Rare Jade. White Jade is a gemstone that holds a lot of meaning and plenty of healing properties. White Jade also has the ability to increase or enhance the energy of love in your life. Been in My Collection over 35 Years and Very Well Kept in My Gallery Collection. Perfect Condition No Nicks, Flaws and no Repairs. Size: High 8.4” Long 9.2” Thick 2.8” Weight: 3.35 lbs. Price: $385.00 Shipping and Handling: $45.00 Exceptional and Beautiful Just Simply Breath Taking. One of a Kind.

Beautiful Natural Huge Mineral Gemstone Macaw Parrot Bird Carving. This Handmade macaw was carved from hard-type rocks. The bird carving is hand carved and come from South America. The Beautiful Macaw stands on a Iron Crystal Perch. The body was carved from Agate Quartz, Red Jasper, Chrysocolla, Sodalite, Serpentine, Onyx The Beak is Black in Color and Golden Yellow Eyes. Please refer to the photos below to visually appreciate the beauty of this Macaw Parrot. One of a Kind. Just a Breath Taking Carving. This Carving Been in My Collection Many Years and Very Well Kept in My Gallery Cabinet. Height: 10 1/2” Tall on Base. Base is 5 1/2” Tall Wide and 3 1/2” Thick. Bird 9 1/2” Tall 3” Wide, and Wing to Wing 3” Length of Bird from Tail to Beak around 10” Total Weight: 3.4 lbs. Price $475.00 Shipping and Handling $45.00 Origin: Peru. Worth so much More. Pictures shows all Angles of This Beautiful Bird Carving. Just a Breath Taking Bird Carving. Exceptional for Bird Collectors and For Home and Office Décor or Just to Add To Your Unique Collection.

hey! So I just carved my first alabaster project - and I dont really know how to finish it. Do you just file it or do you usually use some kind of polish?
Also, I carved these thin lines and I cant really polish them - any tipps ond making them look more clean?

Im just getting started doing small (10 cm) carving/ polishing projects and i want to find a cheap source of marble or limestone or something else that is soft and can be polished. Ive been calling around to the local counterpart places, but they have only quartz remnants and I'm pretty sure that isn't what I want.

Ideas/advice?

Havent thought of a design yet, but my spun copper rings seem to go well

A 4 Dimensional gem Sculpture. Watch as the back of the hand becomes the palm before your eyes 👀

Figure its close enough without being exact

New carving!

Hello, I have recently gotten a few blocks of obsidian and am looking for someone to help me make some custom Armenian style crosses made from them, any help or suggestions on who could help me would be appreciated

Been carving limestone for about three years now, mostly small garden pieces and a few relief panels. Last month I picked up a chunk of alabaster from a supplier at a local rock show because the color was too nice to pass up, this warm honey tone with veining running through it.

Big mistake going in without adjusting my technique first. Alabaster is so much softer than what I'm used to that I kept taking off way more material than intended with the same amount of pressure I'd use on limestone. Gouged a section I meant to just shape gently. Had to rework the whole design to hide it, ended up making the piece smaller than planned.

The dust situation surprised me too. Alabaster dust is fine and almost powdery compared to the gritty limestone dust I'm used to sweeping up. My usual setup wasn't cutting it and I had to rethink ventilation in my garage workspace entirely.

Still finished the piece, a small owl about the size of my palm. Took longer than expected because I kept second-guessing every cut once I realized how forgiving but also how easy to overdo this stone is. There's something satisfying about how it takes a polish though, almost translucent at the thin edges when I hold it up to the window.

Anyone else made the jump between stone types and had to basically relearn their hand pressure from scratch? I feel like I spent half the project just recalibrating muscle memory that worked fine for years on harder material.

Made this one yesterday and casted the pendant in 999 silver topped with a 10Kt bale

Hello all, to give this post some context I am an amateur stonecarver who has primarily worked with limestone to create small figurines (the hands and bird in the attached pics).

Since I've gotten pretty good with limestone I decided to move onto harder stones and bought a larger (though still relatively small) nephrite jade block. I had worked with nephrite jade previously to make a ring for myself, but this was almost entirely done with my rotery tool.

To go along with this larger jade piece I also got a carbide tipped point chisel that I thought would be sufficient for the initial stages of roughing out the nephrite block. However I noticed the carbide chisel got dull really quickly (maybe after 6-8 whacks) when I was working on the nephrite piece (and it not really making a dent).

I sharpen my steel chisels on a slab of a sandstone so perhaps at this point I should have backed off and reevaluated my situation. However, instead of doing that, in my state of confusion I took my dremel (that had a diamond bit on it) to the carbide tip of my point chisel in an attempt to sharpen it again. I did so but almost immediately regretted it and stopped as looks like took off the carbide shell from the tip of this chisel...

Is there any way to save this chisel? Or is it toast? It does look like the carbide tip finish came off, but then how are you supposed to sharpen carbide tools normally?

Side note, when working with nephrite and it's hard structure is a rotery tool the best way to take off material?

Perhaps this is just my inexperience working with both jade and carbide tools but wanted to see if I've made an irrecoverable blunder...

I’m currently working on a pipe bowl and in the stem hole the drill bit broke a good 1/3” deep need thoughts or suggestions on extracting without damaging the stone. The stone is catlinite.

When i see it, i have to make it lol