I have available for the “Tucson Gem Show” a guesthouse that sleeps 4
and a room in my house that sleeps up to 2. The housing is near
Speedway & I-10, the frontage road and downtown. Both are private and
have private bath’s and kitchens. Please contact Sirena 520-867-1735
I’m beyond thrilled to be spending two days in Tucson during the
show (Feb 4 & 5). Never been there before. I’ve read all the posts
here and printed info off the Colored Stone site. I’ve read about the
traffic/road problem. With such a brief time there I would appreciate
anyone here weighing in on shows/places/ that I should try to see
while I’m there. I know it’s each person’s opinion but that’s what
I’m interested in hearing. I would like to find some small (6mm to
under 12mm) handmade looking cabs, irregular shapes, not calibrated,
in translucent or transparent type stones such as garnet, tourmaline,
amethyst, citrine, or saphires, spinel, apetite, aquamarine,
moonstone etc, and small opal, and pearls in mabe, button, dome, and
all the other irregular shapes, but sold individually to set one at a
time, not strung. I’m just an individual(small business) not a
company, so I would not buy a massive quantity.
Thanks friends!
I would like to find some small (6mm to under 12mm) handmade looking cabs, irregular shapes
I will be at the Manning House, booth SG175J from the 5th to the
10th. One of the things I will be “attempting” to sell there are
some small porcelain cabs made from a mold I made of an ammonite.
Pics can be seen at http://www.celtcraft.deviantart.com, along with a
couple of other things I plan on selling there… just in case you
are interested!
Kerry
www.celtcraftdesigns.com
I am a Tucson metalsmither/jewelry maker that has a one bedroom with
full kitchen and bath available during the Tucson Gem Show. It is
centrally located with lots of space for parking and within walking
distance to Speedway and the bus stop. If anyone is looking for a
place at the last minute please call Rameen at 520.440.9461. Enjoy
the show and the weather!!
Hi All,
I’ll be heading to Tucson and arriving Feb 7 late and staying till
feb 12th. If anyone wants to meet me while visiting Tucson, please
contact me by email or by telephone. We can exchange contact
and try to get together during the orchid dinner or
afterwards. Contact me offline or call 401-461-7803
I’m also teaching a 3 day course at "Metalwerx school for jewelry "
in Mass. for Jewelry Designers and Students about Lost wax casting
modeling, molding for production. Feb 22 to Feb 24th You can read
about the course and sign up for it at :
http://www.metalwerx.com/workshop/67
Hope to see many of you in Tucson.
Daniel Grandi
Racecar Jewelry Co. Inc.
racecarjewelry.com
Anyone who’s looking for info regarding this huge show, here’s a new
website with some insights, arizonabeaddog.com Good luck and have
fun!!
Hi there,
I’m a newbie to the tucson gem show and this year will be my first
year to attend god willing. I am in the jewelery business and i was
just wondering how and where to go. It seems like there are many
shows and i’m interested in the gems rather than anything else.
Any help or pointers i would greatly appreciate. 
Ali Mirjamali
Hi All,
Just a brief report, over coffee and donut breakfast in the hotel
room. It’s incredibly intense this year, running around, getting this
getting that, in the course of shepherding the Learning Center at the
Electric Park show (electricparklearningcenter.com).
Some of the highlights so far have been Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup
coming in to facet cut a stone in public at the Learning Center last
Monday. It was bitterly cold day (at least for the Tucson context).
So that entailed a run to the hardware store to get a heat lamp which
we jury rigged onto the Foredom flexhaft mast. You can’t facet with
freezing fingers. The adhesive holding the stone to the dop then let
go - also due to the cold. A new one was glued on. The Mayor cut with
brave good humor. In fact chill notwithstanding you could tell he was
having fun. He told us he’s spent three years in Alice Springs
Australia. That led to a number of opal stories. His executive
assistant told me, “He really does enjoy this stuff. Sometimes my
biggest problem is to drag him away from it.” So that was pleasant,
to know that in the Mayor of Tucson, we had a gem guy.
Orchidian Wayne Emery’s presentation on jewelry photography (Wayne
will be doing more of these at the Learning Center; check the
schedule on the web) was another full house presentation. Quite a
few marveled at the ingenuity of his low cost light box and the
simplicity of the camera stand.
The presentation that really stands out for me is British gemmologist
Colin Winter’s introduction to gem spectroscopy. What a delight that
was. Enthusiastic, full of puckish humor, simple, down to earth and
yet crammed with detail after detail. I’d always been intimidated by
spectroscopy. No more. I bought a spectroscope, and Winter’s book “A
Students Guide to Spectroscopy” has been hotel bedtime reading.
I’m not going to get away from the Electric Park. No chance. But
from this one-venue perspective there does not, so far, seem to be
much reflection of housing crisis sub prime credit woes. The vendors
are reporting sales about on par with last year. Equipment dealers
from what I hear seem to be having a good year, thanks in part to
buying by purchasors from Europe and other foreign countries taking
advantage of the low dollar.
One more week of intensity and then it’s tear down time. Then three
days of recuperation, after which I begin to wish it would star all
over again.
Cheers all,
Hans Durstling
donuts done, time to hear to the show and prepare the next presentation.