Drilling stones for jewelry

I got bored one morning and I decided to see how I could drill a hole into a rock 1) without it breaking and blinding me, 2) relatively simply, and 3) without too many tools to have on hand. What I came up with was this rig.

I have been doing a lot of rock painting but I bet it might be cool to turn some of these into charms for a necklace. This tutorial on how to drill into stones and pebbles is very detailed and full…

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How to carve rocks with a Dremel. Make rock pendants and add saying to rocks for home and garden decor.

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How To Drill Small Beach Stones - Authentic Arts | Nature Art and Jewelry by Jenny Hoople

Over the holiday's I gathered a few stones from my beach visits to have a go at making them into buttons. They will need to be fairly flat and not to big. There are soft rocks and hard rocks - sand and lime stone are the easiest to drill. Some of the ones I collected where too hard for these cheap drill bits. Also take into account the size of the stone. The bigger they are, the heavier they are and they will not be useful. I purchased two different types of drill bits from the local…

In this wire-wrapping tutorial, I will show you how to wire-wrap a stone without holes with just wire, no soldering!

Free-form carving / sculpting of a rough gemstone on a standard equiped workbench allows for a lot of artistic interpretation and creativity to shape gems.