Lapidary Shop Hours – Lapidary Classes or Work on Your Own

Classes or Shop Hours

Lapidary Shop Hours

Shop Classes or Work on Your Own

Don’t forget our Lapidary Shop is open on a regular basis now plus on weekends by appointment. If we have a few Members wanting to work regularly on weekends we will set a specific weekend day each month to be open.

Shop Hours
Tuesdays – 4 pm to 8 pm
Saturdays – Open by appointment
Call a few days a head to set time.

Call Bob Pattie. His contact info is available in our newsletter or at our general meetings.

Shop fees: If you are a Club Member and help maintain the shop and equipment you can work for FREE plus cutting on the big saws $5 per saw hour.

Members: Shop Fees – $5 per day plus cutting on the big saws $5 per saw hour.

Non-Members: Shop Fees – $10 per day. In addition cutting on the big saw $10 per hour. Non-Members have access to the Club Lapidary Shop at the discretion of the Shop Manager or the Club Board.

Updated: August 18, 2017 — 10:50 pm

Presidents Message

  • Digging It!  Thanks to everyone who came out for our February club meeting – it was a fun one, with our own Roger Danneman presenting the highlights of our field trips to come for 2026. Several club members brought their impressive best finds from 2025 for show and tell. Speaking of field trips – our first field trip of the year is in the books, with a mildly snowy day at the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River up by Ol’ One Lane Bridge outside of Acme, Washington. The variety of rocks this year was excellent, thanks in part to …

Meeting Announcements

  • Maureen Carlisle, Former Docent at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, will take us through A Day on a Dig: “Over the years I’ve been asked about what it is like to be on a dino dig, so I’d like to answer some of these questions. I’ll cover some of the practical aspects of both archaeology and paleontology, as I have had the pleasure of being involved in both.” Show and Tell: bring a fossil or artifact that you’ve found or collected.

  • Come one, come all and play ROCK BINGO! With schools out for many local school districts, we invite members, guests, and especially families and kids to come and enjoy one of our most fun nights of the year. Everyone is guaranteed to win at this FREE event! All you have to do is bring three wrapped presents – presents can be rocks, gems, minerals, crystals, fossils, cabochons, slabs, jewelry, tumbled stones – anything you think might be a nice gift for a rock enthusiast. 

  • Our own Mike Blanton will bring his expertise to this club meeting program – he will share the tools, tips and tricks he has developed to drill holes in stones and minerals so you can do more with the rocks you find. Show and Tell: bring a rock you’d like to make into something else.

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