Gemstone carving

Gemstone Engraving – Not Rocket Science

The workshop will be focused on jewellery-scale stone carving using a flex shaft and hand tools, as well as on how to set up an affordable workshop, so that the participants can continue working in their own studios or even in their homes.

We’ll learn how to split stones, efficiently remove large amounts of material, how to shape stones into soft and roundish forms or more complex angular structures, and how to smooth their surfaces step by step until a polished or matte finish is achieved. We will work with transparent and opaque natural stones, focusing on varieties of quartz as one of the most common, yet often stigmatized raw material. During the workshop, we will make tools and discuss both successes and failures, in the group as well as individually.

PLEASE NOTE: this workshop will NOT take place in our gemstone atelier but in a neutral room with a set-up of individual simple working stations. check the fotos further 

below at "…from previous workshops" !!!