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About Shain.Mayer

My Studio is located at my Home in Payson is can be visited by appointment only. Currently we rent out our Apartment at our home and take people out on rockhounding trips around the east verde area. Payson Diamonds and brain head geodes found in and around the upper east Verde in Central Arizona. Rock collecting was never a passion as must as a general interest until about late high school when I discovered from my little brother no doubt, a fire agate! I was so amazed at its uncanny distinct color and play of light. Like an oil slick, but organized and suspended like them insects they put in resin as paperweights. What I didn’t know until many years later, that was a low quality piece I was looking at then when I discovered ”gemstones”. Only until I saw deer creek fire agate was I truly amazed at its righteous status as our “true” state gemstone. Something I still believe to this day should be stated for recognition of this organic rainbow of candy.

This generally is how my passion started for lapidary and wanting to understand more types of materials and ways to cut and polish them for further collecting and/or reselling for jewelry or display pieces. I came across a large collection close by home, and the owner and I worked together for rough 4 years during the gem shows season at Quartzsite, AZ. We sold mostly the materials from that collection, which originated from Boise, ID at a place called Marco”s rockshop. It was mostly agates and jaspers from the Owyhee river valley area and the general borderland of Oregon and Idaho. Allot of Homedale plume, Regency, Willow creek, Brueanu, Blue Mtn, Antelope, and so many other oddities and generalized agates, jasper, and petrified wood. We have long parted ways in the rock biz, but I ended up with the majority of the collection. I’ve been working and digging” from this collection for roughly 12 years and it still gives a surprise every time I go out and sort or look for cutting material. I ended up selling off the collection as overstocks 4 different times, each time the buyer only took a fraction until the forth time when the buyer went for it all except about 5%. Then I sold the Property and moved to Payson.

I am generally a freeform cutter; I do a little carving and tumbling. But mostly do hand cabochon cutting of many gemstone types, but specialize in picture stones best. I also enjoy Druzy and natural face cut cabochons, and I do some stone knife work. I understand the techniques needed to cut opals and jade, as well as special orientation cutting of Pleo-coric stones like Moonstone, Labradorite. Some fire agate carving, but still learning the proper way to cut that stuff. I have cut allot of copper oxides, chrysocolla silicates and a few real gem silica. I cut Turquoise, but honestly never enjoy it but have a surprise from time to time still (even from my overstock collections). I love working plume agate doublets & Triplets, can cut Spencer opal pretty well. Have done special freeform shapes out of good material likes

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