The Rockhound Logbook
These are not marketing stories. They are field notes, shop logs, and road dispatches from two rockhounds who cut what they find and find what they cut. Every stone on this site has a story. This is where we keep them.
The Shop Lore
Stories from the bench, the road, and the dig sites that built Rockhound Studio.
- The Richardson Strike — The Oregon trip that started the labradorite obsession.
- The Frankenstein Lapidary Line — How a Gold's Gym weight became our saw.
- The Spencer Opal Mine & Sox the Manx — A rescue cat, a fire opal mine, and a very long drive.
- The Chert Road Detour & Yakima River Jasper — How a wrong turn became our home hunting ground.
- Janyce's First Solo — The cut that changed how we think about shape.
- The Chipper Lore — A wood pile, a baby squirrel, and eight generations.
- Janyce Takes the Wheels — Equal partnership, one stone at a time.
The Machine Room
How the tools got built and how they run.
- The Banshee Flat Lap — Flat lap specs, arbor extension, Frank cooling system.
- The Dop Sticks & The Car Detailer's Secret — Getting stone off without breaking it.
The Road
Field dispatches from the hunts.
- The Yellowstone River — Yellowstone River jasper, picky trap, Seven Sisters.
- The Shopped Rock — Where we source when we don't dig it ourselves.
- The Rufus Protocol — Rufus, the highway rock, and the serpentine boulder.
- The 130-Million-Year Clock — Botswana agate geology and Liesegang banding.
- The Nickel Back Collection — 13 pendant backs, one-of-a-kind cuts.
The Full Logbook
Every field note and stone history in the archive.