Rob's our in house Lapidary Artist and as you can see from the condition of the clothes he's wearing in the photograph, that he's very into what he does.

Rob's joy is ultimatly free form cabbing - I have a hard time convincing him to make me anything that's a standard size!  He loves to come up with shapes that are both pleasing to the eye as well as the fingertips. 

Rob's been working with stones most of his life but has been creating beautiful items with tools that he's had "on hand" - whatever tool he happened to have on the workbench.

That was until recently, when we purchased all the stock and tools from a previous owner of the Princess Sodalite Mine (thank you Rasmussen family).  From that point on, Rob has had the pleasure of working with several serious Lapidary tools. 

I can barely get him into the house to eat supper some nights!