As much as I love the Tucson Gem Shows…I think I may love the Monterey Bay Jade Fest even more!! 💚💚💚 It’s truly an inspiring event at a scenic destination. Highly recommend!
@@cryptocaptravels I have collected jade for 50+ years. I have jadeite and nephrite from Burma, BC nephrite, and a small piece of black nephrite from Jade Cove. None of the carved stones shown in this video are jade. They are all serpentine, which is very common at Jade Cove. If it can be worked with a dremel tool, it is not jade. It took almost an hour to saw through the pencil-sized piece of black jade I found at Jade Cove, with a diamond band saw. The motor was smoking when I finished. And it took several hours to polish a small (.75" long) cabachon with diamond wheels. The polished serpentine pieces all look very nice, but they will weather and fade away in a few years.
@@williamogilvie6909 ATTENTION EVERYONE! The next Monterey Bay Jade Festival is postponed! It seems that we all have been living a lie! It turns out for the past 20 plus years, NONE of us have been selling jade. According to William Ogerlevie, we have all be selling serpentine the whole time! That's right, none on of us professional jade carvers and sellers who have been doing this our entire careers have been able to properly identify jade from serpentine! Everyone needs to shut down their operations immediately until Mr Ogerlevie comes and inspects your workshop and inventory. Mr Ogerlevie is now the supreme overlord of our fake jade industry. The gig is up, fellas. He is onto us!
As much as I love the Tucson Gem Shows…I think I may love the Monterey Bay Jade Fest even more!! 💚💚💚 It’s truly an inspiring event at a scenic destination. Highly recommend!
It was such a great crowd, excellent Jade everwhere. Bought that pipe at 0:26 lol
Hi sir, I have rough Jadeite Jade Type A from Indonesia, do you interested ?
That is all serpentine. Very easy to carve with dremel tools.
Actually most is nephrite and some not from Big Sur is jadite. No serpentine
@@cryptocaptravels I have collected jade for 50+ years. I have jadeite and nephrite from Burma, BC nephrite, and a small piece of black nephrite from Jade Cove. None of the carved stones shown in this video are jade. They are all serpentine, which is very common at Jade Cove. If it can be worked with a dremel tool, it is not jade. It took almost an hour to saw through the pencil-sized piece of black jade I found at Jade Cove, with a diamond band saw. The motor was smoking when I finished. And it took several hours to polish a small (.75" long) cabachon with diamond wheels.
The polished serpentine pieces all look very nice, but they will weather and fade away in a few years.
You don't know very much about jade, do you? lol
I know enough to tell real nephritis jade from common serpentine.
@@williamogilvie6909 ATTENTION EVERYONE! The next Monterey Bay Jade Festival is postponed! It seems that we all have been living a lie! It turns out for the past 20 plus years, NONE of us have been selling jade. According to William Ogerlevie, we have all be selling serpentine the whole time! That's right, none on of us professional jade carvers and sellers who have been doing this our entire careers have been able to properly identify jade from serpentine! Everyone needs to shut down their operations immediately until Mr Ogerlevie comes and inspects your workshop and inventory. Mr Ogerlevie is now the supreme overlord of our fake jade industry. The gig is up, fellas. He is onto us!