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We opened our shop over 25 years ago selling our cabs and jewelry. We have now closed out our cabochon and jewelry making side of our business, we now sell only preformed slabs.
We are preforming our small and medium slabs by sanding and shaping them to make it easier for you to finish them into cabs. All our slabs are finished with a flat front and back and have a nice glow or shine. We remove all the ugly pits and open fractures, if we have to leave anything in we will let you know what it is. We shape and smooth the slab using 120 - 600 diamond grit and sometimes up to 1500 grit.
After a lot of work our finished slabs can easily be given a final polish or used asis. You can easily change the shape or give it a final polish. You won't have any waste to deal with, which makes it much easier for you to finish them, if you want to reshape them 300-600 grit should do that for you. If you want us to reshape them send us a note.
There's lots of rare, scarce and hard to find material which I will identify with name and origin (if I can remember). My pictures are good but you can only see their true beauty with them in your hand. You will be happy with any purchase you make or you can send it back.
We have a lot of slabs in storage that will be cut to a small or medium size and sanded smooth. It's going to take some time to put all my slabs online so if you want to see something special that we may have, let us know what your looking for, we may have it.
FINISHING: If you want to get a brighter polish, my recommendation for finishing these slabs is to start with 600 diamond grit and finish with higher grits. With some agates I've produced a mirror polish with just 1500 grit . For extra help I have created several posts that show how I create cabs, see my website blog on Designsbyshirl.com.
We are preforming our small and medium slabs by sanding and shaping them to make it easier for you to finish them into cabs. All our slabs are finished with a flat front and back and have a nice glow or shine. We remove all the ugly pits and open fractures, if we have to leave anything in we will let you know what it is. We shape and smooth the slab using 120 - 600 diamond grit and sometimes up to 1500 grit.
After a lot of work our finished slabs can easily be given a final polish or used asis. You can easily change the shape or give it a final polish. You won't have any waste to deal with, which makes it much easier for you to finish them, if you want to reshape them 300-600 grit should do that for you. If you want us to reshape them send us a note.
There's lots of rare, scarce and hard to find material which I will identify with name and origin (if I can remember). My pictures are good but you can only see their true beauty with them in your hand. You will be happy with any purchase you make or you can send it back.
We have a lot of slabs in storage that will be cut to a small or medium size and sanded smooth. It's going to take some time to put all my slabs online so if you want to see something special that we may have, let us know what your looking for, we may have it.
FINISHING: If you want to get a brighter polish, my recommendation for finishing these slabs is to start with 600 diamond grit and finish with higher grits. With some agates I've produced a mirror polish with just 1500 grit . For extra help I have created several posts that show how I create cabs, see my website blog on Designsbyshirl.com.