Cabochons 1.5 - Rick Marshall

Cabochons 1.5 - Rick Marshall

Class | Available

1.5
6/15/2025-6/20/2025
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$200.00
$21.00

Cabochons 1.5 - Rick Marshall

Class | Available

CABOCHONS I.5

INSTRUCTOR: RICK MARSHALL

 

There will be no round, square, oval or rectangular cabochons produced in this class unless they have beautiful druzies of live edges! You will be asked to use your imagination and be creative. You will work with unique cabbing material such as live edges, druzies, coral, kyanite, crinoid stems, beads and geodes to produce unusual cabochons. I will have rough material available also so you can choose and cut. You will also work with stabilized material and learn the process of stabilization so you can work with materials you may have been afraid to work with in the past. You will learn techniques to clean druzies and live edges. I will have some machines in the class you may never have worked with, flat lap, drill press, intarsia machine and 10-inch saw, so you can become familiar with them and learn how to use them. This will be a fun and informative class. The class fee includes some slabs, straight edge, super glue, marker, pen, notepad and instruction manual. I will provide polishing materials and other useful items. If you have an optivisor you should bring it. You can bring your own slabs and rocks, plus I have slabs and rocks available for purchase.

 

Class Fee: $75.00

Estimated Materials: $0 to $75.00

Prerequisite: Cabochon 1 Class

Marshall, Rick
Rick Marshall

Rick began his foray into jewelry making in 2009 when he and his wife began beading. In 2011 he took his first silver fabrication classes at Maitland Art Center in Florida, followed by silver classes at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts in 2011, 2012, 2018, 2024 and channel inlay in 2019. Rick began taking cabbing classes at William Holland in 2013 and continues to take classes from other cabbing instructors. He has taught cabbing in local gem/mineral clubs, William Holland School of Lapidary Arts since 2022 and Wildacres Retreat several times.

Rick has a well-equipped lapidary shop at his home where he spends a lot of his time improving his craft. He cabs stones that are then set in silver by Rick or wire wrapped by his wife and sold at jewelry and rock shows in Florida. A retired car salesman, Rick and his wife Vivian live in Apopka, Fl. There he is Past President and founding member of Wekiva Gem and Mineral Society. He is also very active in the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical Societies as the Membership Secretary and SFMS William Holland Workshop Director for 2024 and 2025