Charles Lewton-Brain's Workshop-Gemology on a Shoestring: Review of Visual Optics & Polariscope Use

Name: Charles Lewton-Brain's Workshop-Gemology on a Shoestring: Review of Visual Optics & Polariscope Use
Start: 2024-05-06T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 4117 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230-3733, United States

Schedule

Mon May 06 2024 at 07:00 pm

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Location

4117 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230-3733, United States | Culver City, CA

CHANGE OF LOCATION UPDATE -
There has been an update on the location for this presentation. This FREE presentation is open to both members and non-members and will be held in the MULTIPURPOSE ROOM (behind the Auditorium across from the park) behind the Culver City Veterans Memorial, MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM, 4117 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA 90230, Monday, May 6th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The Culver City Rock and Mineral Club will present master goldsmith, author, and educator, Charles Lewton-Brain for a free workshop to members and non-members on Monday, May 6, 2024 from 7 pm – 9:00 pm. at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, in the MULTIPURPOSE ROOM at 4117 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA 90230. The topic of this workshop will be "Gemology on a Shoestring: Review of Visual Optics and Polariscope Use." Materials to bring are: 10x loupe, gemstone tweeters. pen flashlight, and some gems especially larger “faceted” quartz.
Please join us in welcoming this esteemed and inspirational jeweler for his informative workshop "Gemology on a Shoestring: Review of Visual Optics and Polariscope Use."
Glass, composite, and imitation gemstones can be determined and many gemstones identified without using complex or extremely expensive instruments. This workshop teaches what can and can't be identified with different degrees of instrument sophistication, from eye identifications on up. Some inexpensive instrument-making is discussed in the workshop. It is a basic introduction to gemology from a practical viewpoint. And how to quickly tell if the gem you are being sold is glass or a fake.

Be the detective: Note everything you can about the gem, anything you can definitely say. This builds a pattern of information you can place in context, infer, and conclude from.
Mr. Lewton-Brain has developed a form of folding metal called “fold-forming”, a series of techniques new to the metalsmithing field which allow rapid development of three-dimensional surfaces and structures using simple equipment. He began a web site collaboration with Dr. Hanuman Aspler in Thailand. The Ganoksin Project web site is now the largest educational site in the world for jewelers with over 4 million unique visitors a year who linger for an average of 20 pages and a 12,500-member archived, searchable discussion email list called Orchid. His writing started the site.