Way of the Ultra Arky
How to machine stone like the ancient builders.
If you are serious about learning the ancient art of ultrasonic rock machining, please do not bother jewelers as they do not use these high-speed stone carving machines.
Most jewelers are salespeople offering other artist work, Jewelers can offer appraisal services, repair work of watches, and can fabricate precious metal into wearable art (jewelry). If a jeweler has a gemologist, they can identify gemstones via evaluation (measuring and laboratory testing). A gemologist is an evaluator and represents just one aspect of a professional jewelry appraiser.
While proficient in gemology, the professional jewelry appraiser concludes the monetary value of an item and studies the different market levels of valuation. There are many levels of value. A wise master gemologist appraiser (Joe Tenhagen) once told me while I was a student, he said, “Jeff, True Value is a hardware store”…… best teacher ever!
Should you ask a jeweler about ultrasonics, they may refer you to their ultrasonic cleaning machine where sound waves are induced into a solution creating imploding bubbles (cavitation).
Today, the ultrasonic machine used in lapidary is for making teeny tiny round holes in beads and cameo/intaglio making. If the lapidary artist needs a shaped tool, they can ask the metal fabricator to shape the tool.
If a metal fabricator or lapidary artist is unsure of a specific stone’s durability or workability, they may ask the gemologist for proper gemstone identification and durability analysis.
A gemologist has knowledge of crystal identification along with knowledge of synthesizing crystals and minerals. Should mining hard abrasives be difficult, synthesizing crystals is the solution. A synthetic crystal has the same physical, chemical, and optical properties as a natural crystal.
For the Ultra Arky, understanding minerals and creating crystals for technological uses is Level 2.
The above process of ultrasonically removing material using free abrasive slurry is the same process the ancient builders used to excavate and scoop out giant stone statues and obelisks (ultrasonic scooping).
Ultrasonic machining leaves behind clean and crisp markings in stone. The ultrasonic machine marks can easily overlap one another without leaving a messy crumbling effect commonly associated and seen with spinning diamond core drills.
Invisible to the unaided eye, some machine marks can be made visible by pouring glow-in-the-dark dry powder over areas of interest. The powder fills in any tight depressions allowing good visuals without the need of a gemological microscope. If you do not have glow in the dark powder, use fine corn starch and Ultraviolet light of any wavelength.
Learning Gemology, lapidary, and manufacturing arts will help you understand how the ancients cut stone.
Practicing what you have learned will enable you to machine stone identical to that of ancient builders… This is the Ultra Arky Way.
Ultra Arky Levels of understanding.
Level 1 (Awareness).
Awareness that there were worldwide civilizations in the distant past creating precision stonework outside our conventional lapidary tools and capabilities.
Level 2 (Machines and the Mineral World)
Machines that created ancient carvings in stone. Explore crystal activation via piezo and pyro-electricity, vibration in ultrasonics, power of cavitation, and synthesizing minerals (crystals).
Level 3 (Sacred Geometry and Bendall’s Bagel)
Randall Carlson’s Sacred Geometry and Malcolm Bendall’s Plasmoid Unification Model.
Level 4 (Leap of the way… The Shamir)
Finalizing unsolved mysteries of pre flood eras and exploring the bible using the science of nature, especially that of King Solomons extraordinary tool cutter. The Shamir. Power of the mind.
Level 5 (All Mystery understood and remastered)
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