Lapidary Services
Mobile Lapidary Services
Whether you’re a prospector assessing new discoveries, a vendor verifying imported stone quality, or a collector seeking to maximize the value of your specimens, our mobile lapidary workshop brings professional equipment and expertise directly to your location. Eliminate risky shipping, reduce handling damage, and maintain oversight throughout the entire process with on-site lapidary services tailored to your specific materials.
Worldwide Specimen Preparation
Our mobile lapidary services overcome the traditional barriers of distance and logistics, bringing specialized equipment and techniques right to your material. From remote mining claims to international warehouses, we adapt our traveling laboratory to your environment while maintaining consistent quality standards that showcase your material’s full potential.
Custom Lapidary Services
Each stone presents distinct opportunities and challenges—our experienced team customizes cutting, cleaning, and finishing approaches based on your specimen’s specific characteristics. This bespoke approach to mobile lapidary processing ensures optimal results for even the most unusual or challenging materials, maximizing both beauty and value. For clients with proprietary techniques, we offer nondisclosure agreements that guarantee your specialized processes remain confidential, providing an extra level of discretion for your competitive advantages.
Mobile Processing
Experience the revolution in lapidary work with our complete mobile processing unit. Rather than sending precious rough material to external facilities, our mobile lapidary services bring commercial-grade equipment to your site. This innovative approach circumvents transportation hazards while providing immediate feedback on material quality and potential. Watch as your specimens transform before your eyes, with every cut and polish performed under your direct supervision.
Specimen Preparation
Proper preparation forms the foundation of successful lapidary processing. Our mobile services include comprehensive specimen preparation techniques that remove matrix material, clean surfaces, and prepare rough stone for further processing. This critical first step in the lapidary process reveals your material’s true character and potential, guiding subsequent cutting and finishing decisions to maximize both aesthetic appeal and market value.
Ultrasonic Cleaning
Reveal the true beauty of your specimens with our specialized cleaning services. Whether your material requires gentle vibratory cleaning, precision ultrasonic techniques, or specialized chemical treatments, our mobile capabilities ensure your valuable pieces are processed correctly and safely. Our specimen preparation services are crucial first steps in both material identification and preparing pieces for further lapidary processing while preserving even the most delicate features.
Vibratory Cleaning
Our mobile vibratory cleaning techniques gently remove surface contamination from your specimens while preserving natural textures and features. This controlled process is ideal for preparing material for identification, display, or further lapidary processing, removing unwanted residue without risking damage to valuable specimens.
Vibration cleaning machine
Our professional-grade vibration cleaning equipment adapts to various material types and conditions, providing gentle yet effective cleaning for even sensitive specimens. The specialized mobile lapidary equipment uses precision-controlled vibration and custom media to gradually remove surface contamination while maintaining the integrity of your valuable material.
Chemical Cleaning
Using carefully selected solutions appropriate for your specific material type, our controlled chemical cleaning processes tackle challenges that mechanical methods cannot address. This specialized mobile lapidary service is particularly valuable for specimens with deep staining or mineral-specific cleaning requirements.
Precision Gem Faceting
Unlock your material’s hidden beauty with our precision gem faceting services. Our mobile lapidary equipment includes specialized faceting machines that transform rough stone into brilliantly reflective gems with mathematically precise angles and surfaces. From traditional brilliant cuts to custom designs, our mobile faceting capabilities bring out your material’s natural fire and brilliance directly at your location.
Flat lapidary machine
Our professional flat lapidary machines deliver precisely polished surfaces essential for specimen preparation, display pieces, or preparation for further processing. This specialized equipment creates perfectly flat surfaces with controllable finishes ranging from rough matte to mirror polish.
24 inch Flatlap: The commercial-grade 24-inch flatlap in our traveling laboratory handles large specimens with precision and efficiency. This professional equipment creates perfectly flat surfaces on large slabs, bookends, and display specimens, providing commercial-quality results right where your materials are.
Ultrasonic Drilling
Create precision holes and artistic features with our ultrasonic drilling capabilities. This specialized technique uses high-frequency vibration to precisely remove material without the pressure and heat of conventional drilling, ideal for fragile specimens or intricate work that conventional methods cannot achieve.
Ultrasonic Etching Square
Transform your specimens with precision square etching, creating geometric patterns and designs that enhance natural features. This specialized mobile lapidary service adds value and unique character to your material through controlled ultrasonic etching techniques.
Ultrasonic Etching Heart Shaped
Our heart-shaped ultrasonic etching creates romantic and appealing decorative elements in suitable stone materials. This specialized technique adds commercial appeal to your specimens, transforming natural material into gift-ready products with broad market appeal.
Ultrasonic Face Etching
Create distinctive artistic elements with our face etching capabilities. This specialized technique uses ultrasonic technology to etch detailed designs and portraits into suitable stone materials, transforming natural specimens into unique art pieces with significant added value.
Slabbing
Our mobile slabbing services transform rough material into market-ready slices ideal for cabochons, display, or further processing. From precision-calibrated thickness for commercial production to custom cuts for unique specimens, our mobile slabbing equipment handles materials of all sizes and hardness levels.
Slabbing Machine
Our commercial-grade slabbing machines travel with us worldwide, bringing production-level capabilities directly to your location. This essential mobile lapidary equipment handles everything from massive geodes to precision production work with consistent, reliable results.
Slabbing Saw
Our diverse array of slabbing saws adapts to materials of different sizes and characteristics, ensuring optimal cutting for each unique specimen. From our massive 36-inch drop saw to precision trim saws, our mobile lapidary workshop carries complete slabbing capabilities to your location.
Slabbing Patterns
Maximize your material's value with strategic slabbing patterns that showcase natural features and pattern flow. Our experienced team analyzes each specimen to determine optimal cutting approaches that reveal dramatic patterns, color zones, or unique inclusions that increase both beauty and market value.
How much does slabbing cost?
Slabbing costs vary based on material hardness, size, and complexity. Our transparent pricing structure accounts for blade wear, time, and material challenges, with special consideration for production quantities. Contact us for a specific quote based on your material and project requirements.
Slabbing Range
Our mobile equipment handles an impressive range of material sizes, from massive boulders requiring our 36-inch drop saw to delicate specimens cut on precision trim saws. This comprehensive slabbing range ensures we can process virtually any material size directly at your location.
Cabing
Transform slabbed material into smooth, polished cabochons that showcase your stone’s natural beauty. Our mobile cabbing services create domed, polished stone pieces perfect for jewelry setting, display, or commercial sale, adding significant value to raw material through skilled shaping and polishing.
Cabochon
Our standard cabochon cutting creates the classic domed stone form with flat back, ideal for jewelry settings and commercial applications. These versatile stones showcase your material's color, pattern, and optical properties while providing standardized shapes that appeal to jewelry makers and collectors.
Calibrated Sizes
Our precision cabbing services include production of calibrated sizes that fit standard jewelry settings, maximizing your material's commercial potential. These precisely sized cabochons meet industry standards for immediate use in commercial jewelry production, significantly increasing your rough material's market value.
Cabochon Faceting
Combine the smooth curves of cabochons with the brilliant reflectivity of facets through our specialized cabochon faceting services. This hybrid technique creates unique stones with increased light play and visual interest, adding distinctive character to your material.
Cabbing Machine
Our professional cabbing equipment travels worldwide in our mobile lapidary workshop, bringing commercial-grade capabilities directly to your location. These specialized machines handle the complete cabbing process from rough shaping to final polish, creating finished pieces ready for setting or sale.
Freeform Cabochon
For materials with unique patterns or features, our freeform cabochon cutting follows natural contours and color zones to create one-of-a-kind pieces. This artistic approach to mobile lapidary processing maximizes your material's unique characteristics rather than forcing it into standardized shapes. For proprietary cutting techniques, we offer comprehensive nondisclosure agreements that protect your competitive advantage, ensuring your special processes remain exclusive to your operation and preventing competitors from accessing your unique methods.
Customer Requests
Our flexible approach accommodates custom cabochon specifications, creating pieces that match your exact requirements for size, shape, and finish. This responsive mobile lapidary service ensures your material becomes exactly what you envision, whether for personal projects or specific market demands. For clients with proprietary processing requirements, we provide robust nondisclosure contracts that prevent sharing your specialized techniques with competitors, maintaining the secrecy of your unique methods and protecting your market advantage.
Sphering
Create perfectly rounded stone spheres that showcase your material’s pattern and color from every angle. Our mobile sphering equipment transforms rough material into precisely shaped spheres ranging from small collector specimens to impressive display pieces.
Sphering Range
Our mobile sphering equipment handles a broad size range from 2 inches to 6 inches in diameter, accommodating diverse project requirements. This versatile capability creates everything from handheld collector spheres to impressive display specimens that showcase your material in three dimensions.
Portable Lapidary Machines
Our completely self-contained mobile lapidary workshop houses a comprehensive suite of commercial-grade equipment in a transportable package. This innovative approach brings professional lapidary processing directly to your material, eliminating shipping risks while providing immediate results and feedback regardless of your location.
Globally Adaptable Lapidary Tools
Our mobile lapidary equipment is designed for worldwide deployment, with adaptable power systems and water management that functions in diverse environments. This specialized design allows us to deliver consistent, professional results whether we’re operating at a remote mining claim or an urban warehouse anywhere in the world.
What is Lapidary Equipment
Lapidary equipment refers to the specialized tools and machines used to transform rough stone into finished specimens, gems, and decorative objects. Our mobile lapidary services bring commercial-grade versions of these specialized tools—including saws, grinders, laps, and polishers—directly to your location, providing capabilities typically found only in permanent workshops.
Portable Cutting Equipment
Our mobile workshop features specially designed portable cutting equipment that delivers commercial-grade results despite its transportable nature. These rugged yet precise machines handle everything from initial rough cutting to detailed finish work, all contained within our self-sufficient mobile lapidary unit.
Field Ready Tools
Every tool in our mobile lapidary workshop is designed for reliable operation in challenging field conditions. From dust management to water recycling systems, our equipment functions effectively regardless of environment, bringing laboratory-quality capabilities to even remote locations that meet the minimum requirements.
Lapidary Services Near Me
With our mobile approach, professional lapidary services are always “near you”—because we bring the entire workshop directly to your location. This approach eliminates geographical barriers to accessing professional stone cutting and processing, making quality lapidary services available wherever your materials are located.
Specialized Cutting Services
Beyond standard lapidary processing, we offer specialized cutting services tailored to unique materials and project requirements. From precision gemstone faceting to massive boulder sectioning, our mobile lapidary equipment handles specialized cutting challenges that showcase your material’s distinctive characteristics and maximize its market potential. For clients with proprietary cutting methods, our nondisclosure contracts ensure your specialized techniques remain exclusively yours, safeguarding your unique processing methods and preserving your market advantage.
Gemstone Processing
Transform rough gemstone material into finished pieces ready for setting or sale through our comprehensive gemstone processing services. From initial cleaning and inspection through precise cutting and final polishing, our mobile lapidary services handle the complete transformation process at your location.
Rock Cutting
Our powerful rock cutting capabilities handle materials of all sizes and hardness levels, from massive boulders to delicate crystal specimens. This essential mobile lapidary service provides the crucial first step in material processing, revealing interior features and preparing specimens for further refinement.
Rock Cutting Saws
Our mobile workshop carries multiple specialized rock cutting saws, each designed for specific material types and cutting requirements. This comprehensive range ensures we have the right tool for every cutting challenge, regardless of size, hardness, or precision requirements.
Drop Saws
Our heavy-duty drop saws handle initial cutting of large specimens, providing controlled sectioning of even massive material. These powerful machines represent the first stage in the lapidary process for large specimens, revealing interior structures and preparing material for more detailed work.
36 inch Drop Saw Water: Our massive 36-inch water-cooled drop saw handles exceptionally large specimens with controlled precision. This impressive machine sections large boulders and massive specimens that smaller equipment simply cannot accommodate, bringing industrial-scale capabilities directly to your material’s location.
Lapidary Oil Saws
For precision cutting of valuable material, our oil-cooled lapidary saws provide superior control and surface finish. These specialized saws reduce material waste while producing exceptionally clean cuts, ideal for valuable specimens where maximum yield and minimal damage are essential.
24 inch Lapidary saw: Our commercial 24-inch oil-cooled lapidary saw handles medium to large specimens with precision and efficiency. This versatile machine provides clean, controlled cuts through substantial material, preparing specimens for further processing or creating finished slabs for display or sale.
18 inch Lapidary Saw: Our precision 18-inch oil-cooled saw delivers exceptionally controlled cutting for valuable specimens. This specialized equipment combines substantial cutting capacity with refined precision, ideal for materials where careful cutting significantly impacts final value.
Trim Saws
For detailed cutting work and precision trimming, our specialized trim saws provide exceptional control and minimal material loss. These precision instruments handle detailed cutting tasks that larger saws cannot accomplish, from shaping cabochon preforms to precision trimming of valuable specimens.
Trim Saw Hand: Our handheld trim saws provide ultimate flexibility for intricate cutting challenges, allowing precise control and access to difficult angles. These versatile tools adapt to unique cutting situations that fixed saws cannot address, providing solutions for complex or unusual specimens.
6 Inch Lapidary Trim Saw Blade: Our precision 6-inch trim saws deliver exceptionally clean, controlled cuts for small specimens and detailed work. These specialized tools handle the fine cutting work essential for quality cabochon preparation and precision trimming of valuable materials.
10 Inch Lapidary Trim Saw: For medium-sized precision cutting, our 10-inch trim saws provide the perfect balance of capacity and control. These versatile machines handle detailed cutting work on larger specimens while maintaining the precision essential for quality lapidary results.
International Travel Availability
We arrange all logistics for global deployment of our complete field equipment, requiring only basic infrastructure (220V 50-amp power, fresh water, drainage, and a secure environment) to deliver full-service lapidary processing anywhere on the planet. Contact us to discuss your international project requirements and experience the convenience of in-situ lapidary services regardless of your global location.
Drilling
Our mobile drilling capabilities create precise holes and cores in even the hardest materials, opening new possibilities for your specimens. From large display pieces to delicate gemstones, our specialized drilling equipment handles diverse requirements with precision and minimal risk.
Lapidary Drill
Our specialized lapidary drills create precise holes through stone materials for jewelry, mounting, or decorative purposes. These purpose-built tools provide controlled, clean drilling that minimizes fracture risk even in challenging materials.
Core Drill
Extract perfect cylindrical cores from your material with our specialized core drilling equipment. This precise technique creates everything from specimen cores to cylindrical blanks for further processing, maximizing material utilization.
1 Inch To 8 Inch Water: Our water-cooled core drills handle an impressive size range from 1 inch to 8 inches in diameter, accommodating diverse project requirements. This versatile equipment creates everything from small beads and pendants to large display tubes and lamp bases directly at your location.
Small Diameter Rotary Drills
For precision small-diameter holes, our specialized rotary drilling equipment creates clean, accurate perforations without material damage. These specialized tools handle delicate drilling tasks for jewelry, mounting, or decorative features.
1 MM to 1 Inch Water: Our precision small-diameter drilling capabilities range from tiny 1mm perforations to substantial 1-inch holes, all with water cooling for material protection. This specialized mobile lapidary service opens new possibilities for jewelry creation, specimen mounting, and creative applications directly at your location.
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