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Fraud and Thieves - I have nothing to do with these people...
Here is a link to some people that have stollen about any thing they can steal. Look at not only all of my photos they have stolen (look at the cut stone pictures) but other peoples as well.
Yes I have contacted them, their webmaster, their server people, and asked them stop. They are low life commercial cutting houses in countries that have no laws I can use to get them with and obviously no respect for other peoples property. They do not care as far as I can tell...
So I am making sure people know I have nothing to do with them and that they are stealing my photos and work.
http://www.indiancolordiamond.com/aboutus.php
http://www.gemcuttingservice.com/index2.html
Don't you wonder what peoples reaction is when they look at my picture(s) and receive poorly cut crappy commercial cut stones? The cutting quality as well as their lack of ethics and stealing make them people that NO one should ever do business with these people..
You may note that my link pages are short and sweet. I think that sites that just link to anything are a waste of time and only link to relevant websites.
To be linked here:
These are must for a link exchange, so please do not waste both of our times.
- Your website must be relevant to the subject of lapidary, jewelry, or informational to a relevant subject. Not just selling jewelry, diamonds, or some thing else.
- If the site is just a sales advertisement and has no valid content to Lapidary and Jewelry I will not link to you.
- If the site is difficult to navigate, I will not link.
- Your website must have an obvious "Links" page on your home page.
- You must of course reciprocate links.
- I must be able to find my links easily on your site with in a few clicks/minutes.
- If you have a lot of flash and garbage on your site I will not link.
If you are looking for cabs or cabbing rough be sure and check out my other website www.cabbers.com
Non - Profit Faceting Clubs and Guilds - These are clubs and guilds that have legal non- profit status (to my knowledge) and I support. If you have a non-profit club you would like me to link, just send a copy of the non-profit paper work and the pertinent information.
- Columbis-Willamette Faceters' Guild
- Midwestfacetersguild.org - The Midwest Faceters Guild is a Member of the American Federation and the Midwest Federation.
- New Mexico Faceters Guild
- UK Facet Cutters Guild
- USFG United States Faceting Guild
Faceting Machine and Equipment Manufacturers
- Gearloose Faceting Machine Plans
- www.ultratec-facet.com/ - Ultra Tec manufacturing.
Gemstones
- GemBob - Custom cut gemstones.
- Kiliancollection.com - Custom cut gemstones and jewelry.
- Jacksgemsjewelry.com - Custom cut gemstones and jewelry.
- Dansstarrgems.com - Custom cut gemstones.
- Custom-cutgems.com - Custom cut gemstones.
- Koalatcutgems.com - Custom cut gemstones.
- Gemsbygregory.com - Custom cut gemstones
- Sacredgeometrics.com - Custom cut gemstones.
- Jewelcutter.com - Custom cut gemstones.
- Stevesstones.com - Custom cut gemstones.
Gemstone Designs and Interesting Faceting Websites
- Famous Diamonds - Some interesting information on famous diamonds.
- Rockhounds.com - Online magazine about rocks... this link is to the faceting designs on this site.
- The Image - Interesting site, minerals, gemstones, information.
- Free-form.ch - Interesting carving site.
- Sunstonemining - Sunstone mining, claims, fee digging and Oregon sunstone information.
- Gemartlab.com - Charles M. Ellias GG ISA CAPP, founded North American Lapidary Laboratory in January of 2002 to provide gem artists, lapidaries, gem dealers, jewelers, appraisers, insurers, the courts, and consumers an accurate, in depth, easy to understand, third party analysis of gems and gem art at a reasonable cost.
Gemology and Gemstone Information
Hobby Sites and Information
Jewelry Sites and Information
Bench Jewelers Magazine - This is a great information site on bench (metal smithing) and the magazine is something most smiths should get. lot of tips, projects, and just genral information on jewelry making.
- Patania-jewelry.ganoksin.com/blogs/ - This a friend of mines blog, he is a well known jeweler.
Search Engines I Like
You may have noticed that there are a lot of search engines out there now trying to charge website owners for placing their "urls" with them. They are also using paid placements for the search results. What this means is that they are ranking websites by who paid them money, not by content or quality of the website.I think this is an unacceptable practice for a search engine and seeing as they are usually popping up all kinds of banners and other advertisements (that they are making money on) that you need to wade through at the same time, it is not worth using these search engines.
I would normally not link up search engines, it did not used to be necessary. But I think the good ones need to be supported, so...
- Google - This is fast and returns good information with a minimum of paid advertising (on the left of the results page using pop ups). Google is about the best compromise between a search engine and advertising that I have seen. It gets your search results fast with not too much advertising garbage...
- SearchHippo - This is a nice search engine and you do not need to put up with all of the advertising garbage that is typical of a lot of search engines.
Trade Links - Below is a selection of different Business links of people I know...
- Rock Peddler They supply almost anything you might want in lapidary supplies.
- Starr Gems, Inc. - Friends of mine and a reliable supplier of jewelry supplies.
- Gem Resources International - Friends of mine. They carry a complete line of commercial/replacement cut goods. Including man-made materials.
- Waxcarver.com/ - "Freelance Hand Wax Carver/Model Maker" - Specializing in one of a kind and unusual wax designs.
Trade Links - Below is a selection of different trade Business links...I have not done business with any of these people and cannot recommend any of them from personal experience. But I thought they were worth listing, so use you own judgment
Aerolite: Meteorites for Sale
Aerolite Meteorites specializes in the highest quality iron meteorites for sale, rare meteorite books and photography, science articles and expeditions.- Azemerald - I am not a fan of Emeralds and do not recommend them, but you must...
- Canadadiamonds.com - Wholesale Canadian mined diamonds, fine gold and platinum jewelry.
- Gemfields.com - the meeting place for Gemseekers, Tourists, and Miners alike, lots of stories, pictures and information about the CQ Gemfields and Sapphires
- Idealcanadiandiamonds.com - Wholesale ideal cut AGS certified Canadian diamonds.
- Jewelrymagazine.com - Online jewelry magazine.
- Jewelryrings.com - Featuring jewelry by Kim Wheeling.
- Jewelry-21 - Jewelry Armoires, Hot Diamonds & Created Gems Jewelry. An extensive range of superbly designed jewelry and beautiful storage furniture.
- Kalahariminerals.com - They are South African mineral dealers which specializes in mineral specimens from Southern Africa.
- Meteoritesplus.com - At Meteorites Plus we carry a variety of Meteorites at affordable prices
- Mother's Rings: The Gift Your Mother Will Always Remember -The idea of the Mother's Ring is simple design a ring with a setting for each child, represented by the birth stone for each one of you.
- Oliviahoff.com - rocks, minerals, fossils, crystals, artifacts, crafts, jewelry, CDs, books. A family business since 1952.
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