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- From: cheryl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cheryl Trooskin)
- Newsgroups: rec.crafts.misc
- Subject: Re: bell caps and rocks
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 04:07:20 GMT
- Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <1992Nov19.122652.9895@newstand.syr.edu> isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account) writes:
-
- >Wheres a source to get half-drilled stones? (rock or semi-pr or prec)
- >Or, how does one drill 'em.. I've tried using solid carbide drills
- >at both 1000 and 8000 rpm on amethyst... they go in about 1/64" and then
- >just don't penetrate further..
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- I've seen half-drilled stones in catalogs from Fire Mountain Gems and River
- Gems and Findings, both of which have been mentioned in this group...for
- anyone who missed the addresses the first time around:
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- Fire Mountain Gems River Gems and Findings
- 28195 Redwood Highway 6901 Washington NE
- Cave Junction, OR 97523-9304 Albuquerque, NM 87109
- 800-423-2319 800-443-6766
- 800-253-9738 (Canada)
-
- River Gems and Findings has a better size selection and prices but the
- half-drilled beads only come in packages of twelve, for seven or eight
- dollars a package depending on the size and stone, and there's a sizable
- discount for bulk orders. Fire Mountain Gems doesn't give much size
- leeway, but you can buy the stones singly, for $.75 each, and they'll
- match them in pairs if you ask. Both these catalogs have all sorts of
- other things too, and they'll send you a one if you call.
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