Rough Garnet for Lapidary

These are a reasonably high grade of rough Garnet, with a lovely red colouration throughout.

The pieces measure around 4-10MM each; they are suitable for small scale lapidary projects including inlay. An experienced lapidarist may be able to facet some.

Garnet is a fairly hard gemstone – these pieces can certainly be cut and polished, though. We have cut one with a Dremel cutoff tool, and polished some using a lapidary grinder – just make sure to work them wet.

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For more information about Garnet, please feel free to check out our Garnet page.

For more rough stones for lapidary, see our ‘Rough Rock for Lapidary‘ section.