If there is something that you need, but it is not listed, please let us know. We will respond with prices, a quote, or will try to help you find a source to meet your needs. Nothing else needed except the stones you need or want to cut and polish. In ancient times most stones were polished cabs. Most opaque stones and opals today are cut, shaped, and polished into cabs.
Opals are some of the most beautiful and interesting cabs available.
Whereas, quartz which also is composed of silicon dioxide is crystalline and contains less than one percent water. Yes, It is hard to believe there is water in them rocks, but there is. Other stones usually cut into cabs are jade, jasper, moonstones, turquoise, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, chrysoprase, labradorite, lapis lazuli, sodalite, malachite, agates, and various chatoyant stones oriented and cut to show stars or cats-eyes. Stones having stars or cats-eyes also fit into another group of stones called phenomenal stones which means having unusual visible characteristics that are exceedingly remarkable or extraordinary. Most transparent stones are cut with facets to bring out the brilliance and color and in some cases to disperse the light which enters it into various colors of the rainbow called dispersion .