12-01-2010, 12:07 PM
David I have just read your thread about gem carving and recently I just made a Silver ring for the farmer who allows me to metal detect on his land.
I put into the ring a Cornelian intaglio that I found on one of his fields that had four stalks of corn finely angraved into it, being a farmer who grows great quantities of wheat I considered he was the one who should have it.
In reading about heating of tools it did make me think that maybe Cornelian being a variety of Chalcedony can be better worked with a hot tool, and also for the fine detail of many intaglios I have found I become more than ever convinced these workers had some form of magnification for even a small child looking thro' the bottom of a glass reaches this conclusion.
I put into the ring a Cornelian intaglio that I found on one of his fields that had four stalks of corn finely angraved into it, being a farmer who grows great quantities of wheat I considered he was the one who should have it.
In reading about heating of tools it did make me think that maybe Cornelian being a variety of Chalcedony can be better worked with a hot tool, and also for the fine detail of many intaglios I have found I become more than ever convinced these workers had some form of magnification for even a small child looking thro' the bottom of a glass reaches this conclusion.
Brian Stobbs
