Have you made it up to Mt Ida in Arkansas to rockhound for Quartz yet? There are numerous Pay-to-Dig mines up in the area around Hot Springs where you pay a reasonable day fee & collect all the quartz you can carry home with you! It’s a fun and educational activity for the whole family!
Thank You to our member Auston F. for sharing some of the fantastic Quartz Crystals he collected during his most recent trip to Arkansas! Hope these pics inspire you to go try it out!
Do you have any pics of your favorite Rockhounding trip? Let us know!
We’d like to share this amazing pendant that our DGMS member Sean M made while being stuck at home this summer (like the rest of us). Congrats to him on this breathtaking piece! We can’t wait till everything gets back to normal so we can offer some fantastic classes again to help build everyone’s skills!!
Hi everyone, I wanted to share what I have been working on while stuck at home. After taking the introductory silversmith class with Barbara, I have been building my inventory of tools and developing my skills. I read a lot of books and watched a lot of YouTube videos. Recently I was commissioned to create a custom piece for a client. She had a wonderful, and big, Smokey Enhydro Quartz Cabachon that she wanted made into a pendant. It took me a while to decide what would work best. I had to watch a few videos and purchase some special tools. It came out so nice I wanted to share it with you. I had to hammer form the bezel wire around the stone. Thankfully the quartz was hard enough to do this. Thanks to Barbara for helping me get started with her silversmith class. I look forward to seeing everyone again when we can. May see a few of you at the shop. Sean M iwannarock.minerals@gmail.com
Have you been working on a new skill during this crazy summer? Or do you just have something super cool that you’d just like to share with everybody? Let us know!
Email: dgms.sec@gmail.com
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