This stone was such a gorgeous and unusual cut and it changed so dramatically from one side of the slab to the other that I simply had to invest the time to produce our mirror finish on both sides! One of our best finds a couple of years ago was a miner who had a small shipment of some newly mined Crazy Lace agate from Northern Mexico! Crazy Lace was one of the first stones I ever fell in love with and one glance at this amazing agate pattern shows why! This is a new strike at the claim which is more seam and nodule oriented which means we're able to cut fortification agate patterns the likes of which I've never seen from this site previously! This is one of the fanciest and showiest fortification patterns we've cut recently. It formed around a crystal geode and is really quite dramatic. This dramatic, double fortification pattern is both colorful and contorted, living up to the crazy lace name! The two main patterns formed around a massive crystal geode that still has large, terminated quartz points in the interior. It's one of the most unusual and dramatically beautiful Crazy Lace specimens we've cut yet! This magnificent, polished slab is sliced from the center of a nice sized boulder and is proof that I made the right decision stocking up on rough stone that year!! Just look at all of those gorgeous, twisting fortification patterns!! The cut face is polished to our signature mirror finish while the back is rough and natural, just as I spotted it in the rough stone lot. You simply won't ever see a more magnificent representative specimen of this gorgeous gemstone! It's beautiful and very dense - an amazing find that we've prepared right!!
This gorgeous piece of Crazy Lace agate has patterns in it that were formed in a seam that sometimes "pinched off" to produce nodules. These nodules form more classic fortification agate patterns than the long famed Crazy Lace was typically known for. It's still a very "confused" arrangement of agate bands which is how the stone earned its name, but it's unmatched in beauty and detail! The colors in this new deposit are centered mostly in very, very finely detailed grays, whites and yellows, but you can find plenty of other colors packed within the bands of the best pieces! There is a fantastic display of colored agate bands in this stone that the camera (and your 256 color browser window) simply can't do justice to. There are bands, and rings and plumes and eyes and crystals and little intricate lacy patterns throughout this beautiful stone. This one demonstrates exactly how the stone earned it's name, displaying a pattern that shows off the best of what this Northern Mexico native has to offer. It's a very beautiful stone and I guarantee you'll be amazed how nice it is compared to the photo, particularly once you see our trademark mirror polish in this remarkable stone!
This agate is cut on a diamond saw, then sanded and polished on a series of flat laps to produce a flawless and lustrous polish that Sticks-in-Stones customers have come to appreciate as the best around! If you don't have any of our work in your collection you really should see it in person - I'm confident you'll be impressed! This is a large sized slab at about 8 1/2" x 7" across the widest point over the polished face and it is cut about 1/2" thick. It weighs 1.86 lbs. Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary is happily providing UPS shipping to greatly reduce shipping charges on large rock orders. We will combine all of your purchases from our shop to cut down shipping costs and help bring you the greatest possible value in fine Lapidary & stone collectibles!