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Beginning Cabochon Cutting on DVD

Beginning Cabochon Cutting Tutorial on DVD

See a Lapidary Artist grind and polish a cabochon in real time!

In this DVD, you will learn how to:

• Select your preform
• Shape your preform with a trim saw and a band saw
• Dopping
• Chalkboard theory with regard to equipment, grinding and polishing
• Visual instructional step by step grinding, polishing and summary

Price: $25.00 including domestic US shipping
Running time: 1hr. 33 min.


Beginning Cabochon Cutting is the first DVD MarZee Tutorials produced. We really took great care crafting a tutorial that after watched by a total novice, could learn all the steps and then cut and polish a cab. Jim Barzee is our Lapidary Artist and narrator.

The DVD begins with selecting a preform. Freeform or using a template, picking the slab and marking it is the first step. Chapter 2 offers two ways to ‘rough’ out the blank. Using a trim (or tile saw) or using a lapidary band saw! What a wonderful tool this is! Hardly any waste and this can move quickly.

Again, with the dopping chapter, there is more than one way shown to do it.

Chapter 4 demystifies the entire cab cutting process as it shows how to cut your cab in real time! And it can go so quickly!

Jim Barzee and his dulcet tones address cab cutting theory’ in the next section. This focuses on the to-be-avoided orange peel finish.

Jim also talks and draws out bezels, bevels and all manner of angles to be considered when cutting cabs for use in jewelry that you or others may be making.

The last chapter wraps us up with grinding, polishing and the summary. Polishing is very important and Jim has a few swell tips.
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Testimonials

Review of the Cabachon Cutting DVD

Every once in a while, something; a new machine, a tool, a book, or an idea comes along and causes us to blurt out "Well, it's about time someone did this!" That's what I said when I popped the 90-minute "Beginning Cabochon Cutting" DVD into my player and saw what I had been waiting for a long time: an instructional video worthy of the name.

William A. Kappele
Rock & Gem Magazine

Review of the Cabachon Cutting DVD

Thanks for saving me hours and hours of trial and error in trying to create my first cabochons. Being able to easily go back and review each step gave me great confidence when I applied my new knowledge to the grinding and polishing wheels in my workshop. Thanks for making this video - Bob Scholl Really Old Rocks, Tucson, AZ

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