Rough Rocks, Minerals & Crystals

Rough Rock Shop Closed

Dave — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:41:12 +0000

Hello, I have now closed the Rough Rock Shop for good oweing to my retirement. My heartfelt thanks go to all of my loyal customers over the years. Dave

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The Rough Rock Shop

Dave — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:08:41 +0000

The Rough Rock Shop will close for good on 24 October 2025, there is currently a 50% off sale on all items in the shop. We have a selection of rough rocks still available, but our tumble rough stock is now exhausted and will not be replenished. You can find the Rough Rock Shop shop […]

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Stamford Lapidary

Dave — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:53:41 +0000

After quite a few years of being involved in the UK lapidary scene, I have decided to retire. What does this mean for Stamford Lapidary? Stamford lapidary is closed now. Well, I won’t be active in the field any more, I haven’t been for a while though! The workshop will be cleaned out and my […]

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Small Rough Rock Slabs

Dave — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:16:05 +0000

Due to the size of our rock saw which has a blade diameter of 200mm or 8 inches we can’t cut very large rough rock slabs. Then take into account the vice on the saw and the size of the slabs reduces by about another 10mm or so. Even though using the vice decreases the […]

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Lapidary Workshop Heater

Dave — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:31:47 +0000

Thanks heavens for trusty old lapidary workshop heater! Yesterday I had to do some work for one of Shalini’s clients. They had sent her some stones, not sure what they are, to be made into a pendant and two sets of earrings. To be honest I was a bit dubious about going out in the […]

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Rock Saw Blade Change

Dave — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:40:48 +0000

The time had finally arrived for me to change the rock saw blade, as you can see from the picture it really is worn out! I reckon it’s been on the saw for about 5 years at least and has had some pretty rough treatment. So for a budget green blade it’s done very well […]

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Rock Tumbler Spares

Dave — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:48:30 +0000

This range of Rock Tumbler Spares offers a broad coverage of the spares for the main UK rock tumbler manufacturers. This page is organised by general or generic spares first, for example: those that will fit on more than one manufacturers machines. Then it become more manufacturer specific, we cover Beach, Evans and Rotabarrel machine […]

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Rock Tumbling Progress

Dave — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:02:09 +0000

Time to report on our rock tumbling progress after another week has passed us by. Yes the tumbling machines have been hard at it again 24/7 for the last 7 days. This morning they get to talk a short break while we empty the barrels and check the contents. Before I go on I just […]

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Rock Tumbling – another weeks has passed

Dave — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:30:28 +0000

Our rock tumbling activities have been running at full tilt for the last 7 days, as we have had 9 barrels on the go. Something of a record for us I think, we even had to press an old machine that was given to us a long time ago into service. Before I go on, […]

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