keep up the good work! when I was starting off in lapidary I was able to buy some greenstone pounamu. like all stone there is a work of art in each piece and you should find it before carving anything. luckily the stone will let you know.
i also got into carving jade and was self taught, i started with buying a bag of slabs with no intention of carving them a few years back, and then gradually started trying new things, I think personally what I use is small dremil sandpaper discs of 180, 220, 240, and then there are those fabric buffing wheels also same dremil size attachments with green buffing compound. I find it that buffing does a good job of getting into places that you cant really cover with sandpaper. then i use sandpaper of 1000 2000 3000 with my hands (it's probably better to buff after sanding)
I used the same technique to oil shells I picked up from the beach. However, once it meet water the oil come out. If I oil a rock and wearing it to swim, will the oil come out as well?
Thank you for sharing your jade carving knowledge. I'm a stone carver myself, I work with soapstone. I always interested in carving newzeland Punamu, is it possible to get raw (rough green stone) from Newzeland? Thank you. Naga
On trademe there is a seller called Testntools (also they sell direct from their company) who stock a lot of tools relevant to pounamu carving. The desic brand of diamond burs they sell are totally decent and not too expensive. There is also a lot of stuff on Aliexpress if you don't mind waiting ages for it to arrive. I got all my diamond sponges and cloth from there as it is heaps cheaper than places like jadecarver.com.
Thanks for sharing . I'm learning how to work with raw pounamu🥰💖🙏
I'm learning to carve pounamu found this dimond knife sharpener awesome for toki, harts ect...
Beautiful...i love it!!
keep up the good work! when I was starting off in lapidary I was able to buy some greenstone pounamu. like all stone there is a work of art in each piece and you should find it before carving anything. luckily the stone will let you know.
i also got into carving jade and was self taught, i started with buying a bag of slabs with no intention of carving them a few years back, and then gradually started trying new things, I think personally what I use is small dremil sandpaper discs of 180, 220, 240, and then there are those fabric buffing wheels also same dremil size attachments with green buffing compound. I find it that buffing does a good job of getting into places that you cant really cover with sandpaper. then i use sandpaper of 1000 2000 3000 with my hands (it's probably better to buff after sanding)
Awesome work, I really enjoyed your video :) I've just started my journey in Pounamu carving with a similar set-up to you :)
I used the same technique to oil shells I picked up from the beach. However, once it meet water the oil come out. If I oil a rock and wearing it to swim, will the oil come out as well?
good stuff mate ive been thinking about making a couple from quartz and greywacke have you mucked around with those materials at all?
Thank you for sharing your jade carving knowledge. I'm a stone carver myself, I work with soapstone. I always interested in carving newzeland Punamu, is it possible to get raw (rough green stone) from Newzeland? Thank you. Naga
yeah I get my stone from TradeMe and there are a number of Jade buy and sell FB groups!
where do you get your string? I'm starting out just now with carving!! thank you for your videos, super helpful and encouraging
I get mine from a site called Craft Runner.
@@emmajane_ormsby8446 thanks!!
What did you use for the polish mixed with the oil??
What's the name of your tool and how much does it costs? Nice regards :-)
On trademe there is a seller called Testntools (also they sell direct from their company) who stock a lot of tools relevant to pounamu carving. The desic brand of diamond burs they sell are totally decent and not too expensive. There is also a lot of stuff on Aliexpress if you don't mind waiting ages for it to arrive. I got all my diamond sponges and cloth from there as it is heaps cheaper than places like jadecarver.com.
What is the name of the machine that you use...
pounamu is serpentine jade bowenite and aotea there are many different varieties the most common is jade kawakawa
Do you have an IG?
Yes I do! my insta is Emmajane.toi
It's just a ROCK 🙄
No it’s not it the name for greenstone