Agate Extravaganza | Cashing in Your Scrap | Show & Tool

Join us for a deep dive into the fascinating world of agates this week with Lapidary and jeweler Sky Paxton as our guide. Sky will show stunning examples and share valuable pricing insights while giving us tips on the hardness and cleavage planes of popular stones (which affect their use in certain types of settings). Sky also helps viewers identify their own stones live on the show. Next, Anne walks us through the steps of recycling filings and scrap and we check out an ingenious home jewelry bench setup and a cool, old tool. As always we finish by talking about current projects and sharing ideas. Read more for resource links.

Links and resources in this episode:

• "All About Agates" by Sky Paxton. Download the PPT.
  
• Agates With Inclusions: agateswithinclusions.com.
  

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