Semi Precious Gemstone Beads — An Overview

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Semi Precious Gemstone Beads — An Overview Diamonds are indeed best friend of every girl, but nowadays gemstones beads are also getting popular natural gemstone beads are in use from so long and even remain in fashion in today’s date as well. No matter whatever style or dress you are choosing to wear for a party gemstone beads are capable enough to complete your look with dash of dramatic flair and fascinating texture. Many gemstone beads suppliers India believe that throughout the era advanced tools and early humans have brought many changes in bead making.


Beads are made from different types of gemstones some of them are quartz, agate, carnelian, and garnet, emerald, jade and many more which have greater value because of its natural beauty. Beads are primitive shaped and form using an early technique of bruiting. In this bead stones are rubbed against any hard material and wholesale made with help of stone tools. This work is time consuming but is fruitful.

How gemstone beads are made? Numbers of steps are involved in the process of making gemstone beads. Here is the process that the gemstone beads manufacture India prefer to follow Choosing right material — The

most important step involved in process of bead making is choosing right type of material. It is vital that you should choose such stone which is free from flaws and cracks. It can be very frustrating if you will spin cracked material as major portion of beads will break into many pieces and as a result your labor will be wasted.

Preparing stone — The

second step is that every gemstone beads wholesaler take into consideration is preparing the stone. Suppose, if you have large piece of stone that can be sliced easily then it is easy to cut. But, at the same time if using small piece of any gemstone from which you know you will get only one or two beads then its vital to consider some or other process.


Drilling — There

are many bead makers who prefer to drill bead blanks by drilling nearly or at center of bead. But, many opt to drill at center and before that choose to lay out. By doing this, beads get more perfect finishing.

Rounding — Next

step involved in process of manufacturing wholesale natural gemstone beads is rounding. Rounding beads at a time can help in losing its fixture sometimes in the starting. But in end you will always get largest bead and if you prefer to use expensive materials then it is more important. It takes 2 to 3 hours to get perfect round. Overall, the time taken for rounding gemstone is more than time involved in other things. Shaping — It

is the process which makes the bead you want. If you want to have symmetrical and smooth bead then you have to shape each half of bead. For this, practice is something which is highly required to do this work consistently. Doing this continuously you will reach at the point from where the bead will start getting its shape.

Sanding — Sanding

the shaped bead is just like shaping process, except at this stage you will be only smoothing out the rough spots on beads and not removing any excess material. If bead get irregular shape which is not according to your like then it is advised to go back and work on grinding wheel for reshaping the gemstone bead. Doing this, on sanding drum can be very time-consuming as it is slow process.


Polishing — There

are different techniques of polishing precious gemstone beads India. Many use three hand technique for polishing beads, while other prefer such technique which depend on how much water look you want to have on bead. These techniques are best as they can remove all scratches and blur effect on beads.


Thus, among so many varieties of beads available in market, gemstone beads are gaining great popularity because of its unique look and effect. If you also want to get one then shop semi precious beads online India.


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