Our founder, Ted Benfield, began rockhounding in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the late 70's. After years of collecting numerous rough gemstones he found it was time to learn the details of bringing out the natural beauty of each stone by learning to facet, or cut them. For most of the early 80's Ted cut these colored gemstones and sold them to friends
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