Rock&Gem Magazine
CALIFORNIA MAGNESITE PLASMA AGATE
California magnesite plasma agate is a kaleidoscope of minerals. Much like its neighbor from Clear Creek, it contains chalcedony, serpentine, jadeite and chromite.
3 min |
July 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
HOW TO CREATE A CABBING MATERIAL
Even though Mother Nature creates almost unbounded types and numbers of beautiful materials for cabbing, often I struggle to find a slab that will work for the project that I want to do.
2 min |
July 2024
COINage Magazine
Coin Learning for Fun & Profit
ARE SUMMER SEMINARS THE FUTURE?
7 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
John Kraljevich
NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY
3 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
British Rarities Are Shining Star
AUCTION FEATURES PEH COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS
7 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
Dwight N. Manley
NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY
3 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
Len Augsburger
IN CHARGE OF DIGITIZING EVERYTHING NUMISMATIC
4 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE HOBBYIST
JOINING THE NATIONAL COIN CLUB AND WATCHING GOLD
2 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
10 Reasons Why Gold Will Hit $2,500 by the End of 2024
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS THE YELLOW METAL
5 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
Canadian Coins Are Pretty COOL Eh?
Oh, Canada... The land of ice hockey, poutine, and Tim Horton's coffee has produced scores of beautiful coins that make collectors flip their toques.
6 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
New Photo Guide to Grading Morgan Silver Dollars
SECRETS OF THE CAC GRADING SYSTEM
6 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
1935 Bank of Canada $500 English Text Boosts Heritage's World Paper Money Auction to Nearly $2M
Currency from Canada showed its might in the Heritage’s World Paper Money Signature Auction held earlier this year.
1 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
Central States Numismatic Society Honors Dennis Tucker
Publisher/author receives 2024 Q. David Bowers Award
1 min |
June - July 2024
COINage Magazine
13 Kenny Duncan Sr.
NUMISMATIST OF THE CENTURY
2 min |
June - July 2024
Wood
SLED INTO SUCCESS WITH SEGMENTED BOWLS
Start your journey toward creating beautiful bowls with the first critical step: accurately cutting and assembling the angled segments.
3 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
BREADBOARD ENDS DONE RIGHT
This traditional method for concealing end grain relies on a hidden trick to work properly. Find out the \"hole\" story behind breadboard ends with this time-tested method.
3 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
BENCHTOP ROUTER TABLES
Can compact tables deliver big-time routing features and performance? We tested 11 benchtop models to find out.
5 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
VENEER-SHADE LAMP
Get ready for warm and glowing reactions to this lamp. It makes sheets of veneer and bits from your scrap bin really shine.
4 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
CLASSIC CHERRY SIDEBOARD
A plywood carcase provides a quick-to-build foundation for the dovetailed drawers and mortise-and-tenon doors.
5 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
TRANSFORMABLE TOOL STAND
Simple but sturdy, this mobile stand can hold a benchtop power tool. Build two stands and you can stack them or pair them as pedestals for an add-on workbench top.
3 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
MODERN PICNIC TABLE
Serve up some style at your next cookout or outdoor party with this eye-catching table and bench combo.
3 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
STUDIO? WOOD SHOP? YES!
Don't mistake this backyard shed as a high-end home for garden tools. Instead, you'll find an efficient, well-lit, and comfortable workshop inside.
2 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
MITER-GAUGE SHOOTING BOARD
Build this shooting board in an afternoon; use it for a lifetime to produce gap-free joinery with just a few strokes of a hand plane.
1 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Wood
SOCK-LEG TABLE
Build this accent table and try your hand at an uncommon technique for dressing up tapered legs.
3 min |
July 2024 - Issue 296
Rock&Gem Magazine
The Resilient Revival of Anne Brontë & Her Stones
For the first time, the Anne Brontë rock collection underwent complete description and identification, and along with Professor Hazel Hutchison of Leeds University and Dr. Enrique Lozano Diz at ELODIZ (a company specializing in spectroscopy analysis), an analysis of that collaboration, Anne Brontë and Geology: A Study of her Collection of Stones, was published in April 2022 in Volume 47, Issue 2 of the peer-reviewed journal, Brontë Studies & Gazette.\"
6 min |
March 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
HOW TO PUT A PROTECTIVE CAP ON A CAB
To protect a specimen cab, often a cap is needed. In my case, I had a slab with the because of the color of the background and the pattern. This background had a more silicified consistency than most sandstones. It had no graininess like most sandstone, so I'm inclined to compare it to a jasper. The pattern was typical of a dendrite.
2 min |
March 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
Amazing Women with Rock-Solid Careers
Explorers, Geologists, Educators & Jewelry Makers...
7 min |
March 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
A Step Closer to Hydrogen, the "Climate-Friendly Fuel"
As I reported last June, the world is racing to find sustainably renewable, nonpolluting sources of energy to replace our carbon-based reserves of coal, oil and gas.
1 min |
March 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
Subduction Goes Back-Way, Way Back!
Long in the making, the concept of plate tectonics coalesced in the 1960s. The Earth's squishy mantle churns. Above it rides immense crustal plates-some oceanic, others continental.
1 min |
March 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
The Planet Lurking within our Planet
When Theia Kissed Earth
1 min |