Saber Crystals

[captain_mills]

I looked and couldn't find a thread like this, so I thought I post a question and a help...

Where do you folks find your nice saber crystals? I'd like several options, from fake to real, so that I can take a look at prices and options. There's a couple of places I've found that have crystals, and I'm sharing them below, but I wanted to know if there were others where you guys go to to purchase yours...

1) healingcrystals.com Double Terminated Quartz Point A Grade

2) ravencrystals.com POINTS

Dunno of this is worthy of a "sticky" but I think it would be nice to have a place where people have posted links to buy saber-quality crystals...

[Skottsaber]

You should also be able to find a local place that stocks them, they are quite common.
Wait, I do live in South Africa, where a lot of the World's quartz is mined, so I might be wrong.

Ebay is also good for cheap prices.

[Loachri MacTalabh]

Azure Green is a good reputable company that sells quarts crystals. They are a occult type store, and have a wide variety.
http://www.azuregreen.net/Medium-Cry...uctinfo/GPAA2/
Just got it today

[Azmaria Dei]

i grew up in missouri... lots of crystals there too... in fact my mom just shipped me a 10 pound box of rocks like that for the holidays! ^_^

sithlordfaust has started making glass crystals with his awesome glass blowing skills as well.

[eastern57]

If you're so inclined, my good Captain, you can always make your own crystal. Chunks of polycarbonate or acrylic are great for it. I prefer making them because I can get exactly the look and FIT that I want for a project.



It's entirely preferential, of course, and most people prefer the real thing.

[Azmaria Dei]

i've used layered acrylic as well. glued it together in sheets and sanded it together.

[captain_mills]

Thanks to all!

eastern57, I am so inclined and have some acrylic dowels. A question I have is, how are you cutting and polishing your acrylic?

Thanks again!
CMills

[sithlordfaust]

I think making your own is the way to go.
I cant get into making them anymore as each person needs
a custom sized one and there is no standard size.
that and the work it takes to make a glass crystal is nowhere
near efficient

[Rhyen Skytracker]

I have also gotten a large crystal and used a hammer and chisel to break it up and then shape it with a dimond cut off wheel with a dremel. You can get exact shapes and sizes that way too and it wi real quartz. The foggy looking quartz diffuses light better than the very clear ones do.

[eastern57]

Thanks to all!

eastern57, I am so inclined and have some acrylic dowels. A question I have is, how are you cutting and polishing your acrylic?

Thanks again!
CMills

Polished (clear) is nice, but it doesn't difuse the light very well... just goes right through. I have a ruler (.25" x .25") that's pretty good, except it's blue, if I had my druthers - it'd be colorless. I use files: a course one for shaping, and finer ones for "tuning". I like to keep (most of) the exterior hazed. TCSS doesn't stock the acrylic crystals anymore - sorry. You can find funny shapes and such at USplastics, tapplastics, lots of other places.