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MAKING A FREE-FORM HEART SHAPE…WITH A HEART OF ITS OWN

Ihad a slab of my favorite Brazilian Agate from previous projects that had an irregular shape and some defects that had to be taken into consideration. The most obvious shape in my imagination that would fit was a distorted heart shape which wouldn’t be available in most regular templates, so I sketched it on the slab to fit around the slab’s defects.

MAKING THE HEART I trimmed and ground the preform to that shape. I had planned on having a curved groove going from the top between the upper lobes to the lower part of the heart shape.

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