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<p>[QUOTE="Hollyblue, post: 3153661, member: 1496"]Shining a light through the back of a stone let's us know what is inside the stone..... air bubbles,inclusions,nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless something comes out of a mold for glass stones,the stones will be irregular in shape if hand cut without precision machinery.Many coming from India in the past were shaped and polished by children mostly under the age of 14.There is no precision machinery just a disc and their hands</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]RlaNYF5ksGs[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hollyblue, post: 3153661, member: 1496"]Shining a light through the back of a stone let's us know what is inside the stone..... air bubbles,inclusions,nothing. Unless something comes out of a mold for glass stones,the stones will be irregular in shape if hand cut without precision machinery.Many coming from India in the past were shaped and polished by children mostly under the age of 14.There is no precision machinery just a disc and their hands [MEDIA=youtube]RlaNYF5ksGs[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]
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