| Maple Ridge Lapidary Club 23740 Fern Crescent Maple Ridge BC V2X 2S4 Tel. 604 466 4938 |
| Our CLUB HOUSE on Fern Crescent after the winding road ends tucked away among trees |
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A place to
socialise
A place to
make new
friends
A place to
relax
A place to
become
creative
Have you ever wondered about the rocks that are scattered on the
forest floor.
Or the vibrant pebbles you find while strolling on the beach.
How did this little pebble, rock and get here, how old can it be?
What is the history? Is it a fossil? Or a precious gem?
How many wonders and what kind of beauty is hidden under the
weathered outer layer???
For all these questions and many others, the answer might be
found at the MRLC
forest floor.
Or the vibrant pebbles you find while strolling on the beach.
How did this little pebble, rock and get here, how old can it be?
What is the history? Is it a fossil? Or a precious gem?
How many wonders and what kind of beauty is hidden under the
weathered outer layer???
For all these questions and many others, the answer might be
found at the MRLC
Basic lapidary skills can be learned at the MLRLC. Cutting, grinding and polishing stones into
shape for the use as a jewelry components can be very creative.
Shaping a rough and weathered stone into a beautiful sculpture of a bird or fish or whatever
you feel like creating can be very fulfilling.
Learning to use diamond and different various tools is very helpful to complete a project
quickly. Everything can be found at our club and is available to all club members.
And of course the help to complete your project to your satisfaction.
Short classes to safety procedures and skills are frequently offered.
Come join us, we are looking forward to meeting you.
Club hours: Stone carving - Wednesday and Friday from 6pm to 9pm
Silversmithing - Tuesday and Friday from 6pm to 9pm
Note: Fridays is also family drop in night.
On national Holidays the club will be closed.
shape for the use as a jewelry components can be very creative.
Shaping a rough and weathered stone into a beautiful sculpture of a bird or fish or whatever
you feel like creating can be very fulfilling.
Learning to use diamond and different various tools is very helpful to complete a project
quickly. Everything can be found at our club and is available to all club members.
And of course the help to complete your project to your satisfaction.
Short classes to safety procedures and skills are frequently offered.
Come join us, we are looking forward to meeting you.
Club hours: Stone carving - Wednesday and Friday from 6pm to 9pm
Silversmithing - Tuesday and Friday from 6pm to 9pm
Note: Fridays is also family drop in night.
On national Holidays the club will be closed.
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| stone carving Stone carving is an ancient activity, transforming a rough natural stone into a shape. Controlling the removal of undesired material is a particular way of producing sculptures. A opposite of modelling clay or casting. |
silversmithing Working with silver and other materials to make jewellery or other items. There are different ways to work with this metal, such as cutting, forming, soldering, riveting, casting and squeezing. Because silver is a very malleable metal, but the choices and preferences vary with every silversmith. |
cabochon A cabochon is a gemstone which has be shaped and polished. Usually a convex top with a flat back and mostly cut in a rounded oval. |
facet Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes. Cutting a gemstone with facets is a very precise work in order to receive sparkles with internally reflected light. And only transparent or translucent stones normally used. |
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| On my last trip to Germany I visited the historical and geological Museum in Dresden and found to my amazement, few Ammonites from the cretaceous period on display. An extinct marine animal in diameter of 170cm who lived millions of years ago. Jakob, my grandson looks in comparison very small. Dresden a city rich on culture, history, art, architecture and music. The city has experienced dramatic changes since the reunification of Germany in the early 1990s. And still shows wounds from the bombing raids of 1945, but it has undergone significant reconstruction in recent decades. Restoration of the Dresden Frauenkirche was completed in 2005, a year before Dresden's 800th anniversary. A city worth visiting any time. Irene |
