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OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Tear Drop - Fordite - CorvetteOOAK Cabochon - Freeform Tear Drop - Fordite - Corvette

OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Tear Drop - Fordite - Corvette

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Fordite - a by-product of the automotive industry, Fordite is made from the built-up layers of paint from the spray-painting booths. Salvaged and cut and shaped and polished, the various colours of paint show as delightful patterns and shapes. This is older, from a private collection. This is...
Colour Family: Browns

Size: 20-30mm

General Shape: Other

Product Type: Cabochon

Package Size: Each

Stone Availability: OOAK

Stone Type: Fordite

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Fordite - a by-product of the automotive industry, Fordite is made from the built-up layers of paint from the spray-painting booths. Salvaged and cut and shaped and polished, the various colours of paint show as delightful patterns and shapes. This is older, from a private collection. This is apparently from the Corvette spray booth. There is no odor to this.

13mm x 25mm By the each.

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OOAK Cabochon - Freeform Tear Drop - Fordite - Corvette


<p> Cabochons!</p> <p> You asked - we deliver. Cabochons are a domed topped stone with a flat back - and you see them used in those spectacular ads on the backs of beading magazines where someone has spend hundreds of hours beading those wonderful bead collars - riffing off the colours and patterns in a central stone cab.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The general technique is to glue down the cabochon to some super-suede or some Lacey's stiff stuff, and then start beading a "bezel" around it to hold it in place, and then embellish from there. There's a tutorial <a href="http://jewelrymaking.about.com/library/weekly/aa072900.htm" target="_blank">here</a> for more details. </p> <p>  </p> <p> Of course - cabochons have been mounted in traditional fabricated metal jewelry for eons, and can also be used in metal clay projects - but we do NOT recommend firing these. (Make the piece first and add the stone after.) We have no idea what will happen to them when fired. Except the dyed turquoise howlite - I can tell you what happens to that! It disappears! Just a little pile of white ash left. :-(</p>