 Want to get out of Tokyo`s fast lane and try something totally ? Experience being in a Jade Carving Studio for a day. Be creative and design your own special jade treasure. Gordon Wells a jade carver and jade sculptor with over 33 years experience will put your special ideas and designs into jade while you watch. Then later you will do all the hand finishing work transforming your design into your own special work of art which will last forever... |
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The
Jade Experience ...
The Jade Experience includes jade and materials and prices are from $80.00 to $200.00 USD depending on your design. Eternity pendants, double and tripple twists, manias, complex fish hooks, traditional NZ designs, or a your own complex design can be arranged. The Jade Experience will take a full day to complete, by the end of the day you will have a beautiful wearable jade carving to wear everyday.... |
| The Jade Sculpture Experience ...
The Jade Sculpture Experience is for those who would like a very special complex sculpture created and prices are quoted on complexity of design and the quality of jade. If you have the plenty of time, a couple of days or more, and lots of US dollars just about anything can be arranged in NZ jade. A beautifully carved and finished NZ jade sculpture will be yours to display and admire and talk about for years to come... |
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does the Just Jade Experience work ???
At the Just Jade Experience you get to be creative by first putting your ideas on paper having hands on involvement designing your own special design. Once your design has been arranged, and been certified as Ok then Gordon will do the difficult carving process for you carefully carving your ideas into stone. This can take anything from 15 minutes to 2 to 5 hours depending on complexity of your design. When Gordon the Master Carver has finished your design, then you will be shown how to finish your roughed out design. This process will take 4 to 6 hours or longer depending on complexity of your design. The carving is firstly worked with a silicon carbide rub stone until all tooling marks are removed. Then you are guided through a polishing process of sandpaper's starting from 150, 240, 360, 600, 1200, and 2000 finishing paper. Eventually your creation is ready for the final polishing, tin oxide polishing abrasive which will make your jade shine and glissen. Then Gordon will rope up and perform the special handing over ownership ceremony. Finally now you own a specially designed jade treasure that you have put a lot of your spirit, feelings and work into. |
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About
the Stone ...
The early New Zealand Maori called the stone Pounamu which means Green Stone. Later it was found that Greenstone was in fact Nephrite Jade, hence Greenstone and Jade or Nephrite Jade are the same stone. The Just Jade Experience uses New Zealand Jade. NZ Jade comes in many different colours from pale greens to deep dark greens. The jade that is mostly used is from the Hollyford and Cascade area in South Westland NZ. This type of stone is called Totoweka it means 'Blood of the Weka' a native bird of NZ. We have named this jade 'Kiwifruit Jade' as it has similar look to the Kiwifruit. If you would like a different colour of jade, then extra fees will apply as Medium, Dark Green or Marsden Flower Jades are now very rare and very expensive. They are alot harder to work. |
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