Today we talk about what is a lapidary Art? We talk about the early history of lapidary and how it ended up in the last 50 years as a American hobby. Lapidary transcends many different cultural social national religious boundaries, another words everybody loves rocks and Gemstones. We discuss the four different types of lapidary art cabochons stone faceting, carving and tumbling. This is truly a great hobby to get involved with and even though it’s not as popular as it once was there still many who are willing to help you and Radical Rocks is here to help educate and build community and keep rock hounding alive, radicalrocksusa.blogspot.com remember rockhounds don’t die they petrify ! Happy Father’s Day!