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Rockin' Jewelry => Wearable or Utilitarian Jewelry Art => Topic started by: irockhound on July 16, 2016, 05:33:31 PM
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When I was in Quartzsite 2 years ago a gentleman had the bottom of a shipping crate still filled with Bumble Bee Jasper (we know it's not Jasper). I saw one really thick slab of material that had plumes in the sulfur layer and it went straight into my purchase pile and sat in my garage for 2 years. I thought it would make a good buckle. I sliced it pretty thin so I could get a couple buckles out of the slab so I backed it with Basenite and then an Optical Quartz cap for protection since it is after all a belt buckle and then put it in a White Brass buckle and ground it down. Like the Durmortierite buckle, I decided to polish the buckle also.
I added a close up of the plumes.