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Lapidary Drilling Tutorial on DVD

Lapidary Drilling Tutorial on DVD

See a Lapidary Artist drill a fine hole in real time!

In this DVD, you will be shown:

• All the equipment you will need for drilling
• Tips on pre-drilling set-up insuring your success
• How to drill a fine hole through a preform
• How to drill a fine hole through a cabochon
• How to drill a fine hole through a tumbled stone
• How the hardness of different stones come into play while drilling
• Examples of what not to do

$25 including Domestic US shipping
Running time: 1hr. 26 min.


The best part of this tutorial is how with the information shown how easy it is to drill a hole, where you want it! Whether the hole is in a finished piece, a pre-form or a tumbled stone, MarZee’s Jim Barzee takes us through all the steps.

Our favorite chapter is the last one, “What Not to Do.”

In it, Jim Barzee helps out with great tips on guide holes and on how to avoid blasting out through the back end of your stone. A tip worth the price of the DVD because who really wants to have to clean up a finished piece because of harried post finish hole drilling.

 

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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