re: #218 Nimed

It weird — the stone in the $30 “Mesa Top Turquoise Choker” seems familiar. Tripping on dj-vu here…

I can’t tell you much about the stone. It came from a slab of turquoise I purchased about two months ago. It is a powered blue turquoise mixed with a calcite matrix. It was hard to cut and polish, since some pieces of it had more calcite veins going right across the stone and tended to break apart. That piece in the store is stable… I have one more teardrop I managed to cut from it that was stable, but it’s not been worked into a choker yet.

I have a lot more turquoise that has not been worked and/or worked and still waiting an inspiration for a design.