Our Materials

Kingman Green-Blue Turquoise is one of our most popular materials, blending vivid blue and sea-green tones with an earthy natural matrix. Mined in the Mineral Park area of Arizona's Cerbat Mountains, Kingman turquoise has a remarkable history: Indigenous peoples worked turquoise near Kingman by approximately A.D. 600, commercial mining began in the late 1880s, and the Colbaugh family has operated the mine since the early 1960s. Variations in brown, black, and golden matrix make every finished piece one of a kind.

Kingman Turquoise

Kingman Blue Turquoise features the strong, vivid blue color for which the Kingman Mine is celebrated, sometimes accompanied by subtle traces of green and a natural brown, black, or golden matrix. It comes from the Mineral Park area of Arizona's Cerbat Mountains, where turquoise has been worked for centuries. Individual variations in color and matrix give every finished piece its own distinctive character.

Kingman Turquoise

Bonita Blue Turquoise comes from Sonora in northern Mexico and is known for its saturated blue color. Dramatic black pyrite matrix runs through the turquoise, creating bold contrast and a distinctive pattern. Natural differences in color, matrix, and mineral distribution ensure that every finished piece is unique.

Bonita Blue Turquoise

Kingman Blue-Green Turquoise with Black Matrix combines rich blue and green tones with a bold natural black matrix. Sourced from the Mineral Park area of Arizona's Cerbat Mountains, the stone reflects Kingman's long turquoise history—from Indigenous mining by approximately A.D. 600 and commercial production in the late 1880s to operation by the Colbaugh family since the early 1960s. Variations in color and matrix make every finished piece one of a kind.

Kingman Turquoise

Teal Kingman Turquoise with Bronze pairs the blue-green and teal tones of natural Kingman turquoise with warm bronze accents. The metallic bronze highlights the stone's natural matrix and creates a rich Southwestern contrast. Variations in turquoise color, matrix, and bronze distribution make every finished piece unique.

Blue Kingman Turquoise with Obsidian and Bronze combines vivid Arizona turquoise with deep black obsidian and warm bronze accents. Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass formed when lava cools rapidly, providing a dramatic dark contrast to the blue turquoise. Variations in stone color, matrix, and bronze distribution make every finished piece one of a kind.

Kingman Polychrome Turquoise with Bronze showcases the broad range of colors found in natural Kingman stone, blending blue, green, and earthy matrix tones with warm bronze accents. The varied palette creates a richly layered pattern, while natural differences in color, matrix, and bronze distribution ensure that every finished piece is unique.

Polychrome Kingman Turquoise

White Buffalo Turquoise with Bronze combines naturally patterned white calcite with a distinctive black matrix and warm bronze accents. Although commonly called White Buffalo Turquoise because of its appearance and Nevada origin, it is a calcite material rather than turquoise. Variations in color, matrix, and bronze distribution give every finished piece a bold, one-of-a-kind character.

Neon Ranger Dolomite with Bronze combines vibrant, color-enhanced dolomite with warm bronze accents for an energetic, contemporary appearance. Its bright coloring, bold contrast, and metallic highlights create a distinctive material, while variations in color, pattern, and bronze distribution make every finished piece unique.

Black Buffalo Dolomite with Bronze combines dolomite selected for its dark, black-dominant coloring and contrasting natural matrix with warm bronze accents. The dramatic contrast creates a striking and masculine appearance. Variations in tone, matrix, and bronze distribution make every finished piece one of a kind.

Black Buffalo Turquoise

Red Dahlia Dolomite with Bronze combines dolomite dyed in a range of light-to-dark red tones with warm bronze accents. The layered color and metallic highlights create a rich, dramatic appearance, while variations in shading, pattern, and bronze distribution make every finished piece unique.

Red Dahlia with Bronze

Purple Dahlia Dolomite with Bronze combines dolomite dyed in varied purple tones with warm bronze accents. Long associated with royalty, dignity, and creativity, purple gives this material a refined presence. Variations in color, matrix, and bronze distribution make every finished piece one of a kind.

Purple Dahlia with Bronze

Blue Kingman Turquoise with Lava Rock and Bronze combines vivid Arizona turquoise with porous volcanic stone and warm bronze accents. Lava rock forms when molten stone cools and solidifies, leaving its characteristic textured surface. The contrast of blue turquoise, dark lava rock, and bronze creates exceptional depth, while natural variations make every finished piece unique.

Spiny oyster shell is prized in Southwestern jewelry for its vivid orange, red, purple, and cream tones. Combined with warm bronze accents, the shell creates a lively pattern with exceptional depth and character. Natural variations in color and bronze distribution ensure that every finished piece is one of a kind.

Azurite and lapis lazuli bring together deep blues, bright blue highlights, and natural mineral variation, accented by warm bronze. The contrast between the blue stones and metallic bronze creates a rich, distinctive appearance. Variations in color, matrix, and bronze distribution make every finished piece one of a kind.

Azurite and Bronze with Lapis

Lapis lazuli is a natural stone celebrated for its deep blue color and distinctive mineral character. Individual pieces may range from royal blue to darker navy tones and can include white calcite veining or golden-colored pyrite flecks. These natural variations are part of the stone's beauty and ensure that every finished piece is unique.

Lapis Lazuli

TruStone Malachite is a lab-created material designed to capture the vivid green banding and dramatic appearance of natural malachite while providing greater consistency and workability. It offers an attractive alternative where natural malachite may crack during fabrication and requires careful handling because of mineral dust. Pattern and color variations make every finished piece distinctive.

Malachite

Jet TruStone is a lab-created material designed to recreate the rich black appearance and smooth character associated with natural jet while offering dependable stability and workability. Its deep color creates a classic, understated look, and subtle variations give every finished piece its own character.

Vein Turquoise combines natural crushed Sonoran turquoise with an engineered host rock, carefully pressed together to create a durable and distinctive material. The turquoise is sourced from Sonora, Mexico, a region celebrated for its beautiful blue and blue-green stone. Its vibrant veins flow through the contrasting host rock like a river winding between desert canyon walls—a pattern reminiscent of the turquoise formations created by water, wind, and time near the Nacozari Mine. Variations in color, matrix, and veining make every finished piece truly one of a kind.

Vein Turquoise

Red Sponge Coral is a natural organic material formed by colonies of marine coral polyps. It is recognized for its distinctive network of pores, channels, and irregular patterns, which gives the material its characteristic sponge-like appearance. Because natural sponge coral is relatively soft and porous, it is stabilized with a clear polymer to strengthen the material, fill its open structure, and improve its durability and finish. The coral is then dyed a rich red to enhance its color while preserving the natural pattern beneath the surface. Once shaped and polished, the contrasting shades and organic structure create a bold material with depth, texture, and character. Natural variations in pattern, color, and porosity ensure that every finished piece is unique.

Pink Peruvian Opal with Bronze combines natural pink opal from the Andes Mountains of Peru with warm bronze accents. This distinctive gemstone ranges from delicate blush and soft rose to deeper pink tones, with natural variations in translucency, mineral inclusions, and subtle areas of contrasting matrix. Our Peruvian opal is stabilized to strengthen its natural structure and improve its durability for precision inlay work, shaping, and polishing. The warm bronze highlights the opal’s soft coloring and creates a refined contrast throughout the material. Because of the stone’s natural variations and the unique distribution of bronze, every finished piece is one of a kind.

Select Grade Abalone Shell is carefully chosen for its exceptional iridescence, strong color, and remarkable visual depth. Abalone is a marine mollusk whose shell develops an interior layer of nacre, commonly called mother-of-pearl. Its microscopic layers interact with light to produce constantly shifting shades of turquoise, blue, green, violet, pink, and silver. For thousands of years, abalone has been treasured by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Coast as food and as a material for jewelry, trade, ceremonial regalia, tools, and decorative inlay. Its luminous shell traveled through extensive trade networks, carrying its beauty and cultural importance far beyond the coastline. Our select grade highlights especially vibrant color and clean, luminous patterning. Because every shell forms naturally, variations in color, texture, and movement are expected and celebrated. No two finished pieces will ever reflect light in exactly the same way.

Abalone

White Mother-of-Pearl comes from the luminous inner layer of a mollusk shell known as nacre—the same natural material involved in the formation of a pearl. Its silky white surface reflects delicate flashes of silver, cream, pale pink, blue, and green as it moves through the light. For centuries, artisans around the world have used mother-of-pearl in jewelry, furniture, musical instruments, buttons, religious objects, and decorative inlays. Its soft glow and refined appearance have made it a lasting symbol of beauty and elegance. Natural variations in color, pattern, and iridescence are part of the shell's character. Every finished White Mother-of-Pearl piece is truly one of a kind.

Mother of Pearl

Gold-Lip Mother-of-Pearl is prized for the warm golden coloring found along portions of the shell's nacreous interior. Its luminous surface can display shades of champagne, cream, honey, pale gold, and silver, often accompanied by subtle flashes of pink or green. Mother-of-pearl has been treasured for centuries in fine jewelry and decorative arts because of its remarkable ability to capture and reflect light. The warm coloring of Gold-Lip Mother-of-Pearl gives it an especially luxurious appearance reminiscent of softly polished precious metal. Each section reveals a different balance of color, movement, and natural pattern. These variations make every finished piece distinctive and impossible to duplicate exactly.

Mother of Pearl

Black-Lip Mother-of-Pearl is known for its dramatic depth and sophisticated range of darker colors. Rather than appearing solid black, its nacre can shift through charcoal, silver, gray, deep green, blue, violet, and bronze as the light and viewing angle change. For centuries, dark mother-of-pearl has been valued for jewelry, buttons, decorative objects, and fine inlay work. Its mysterious coloring and metallic-looking luster create a striking alternative to traditional white shell. Every section displays its own combination of dark edges, silvery highlights, and iridescent color. These natural variations give Black-Lip Mother-of-Pearl exceptional character and ensure that no two finished pieces will ever look exactly alike.

Mother of Pearl

Natural Fossilized Mammoth Tooth offers a direct connection to the Ice Age. Mammoths used massive ridged molars to grind grasses and other tough vegetation. Those alternating layers of enamel and dentin created the remarkable striped and geometric patterns visible when the fossil tooth is cut and polished. The natural material can display earthy shades of cream, tan, brown, gray, and black, shaped by age and the surrounding soil and minerals in which it was preserved. Because every tooth formed, wore, and fossilized differently, no two sections share exactly the same pattern. Each finished piece preserves a small part of prehistoric natural history and displays markings created thousands of years before modern craftsmanship transformed the material into a functional work of art. After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized tooth is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work.

Woolly Mammoth Tooth

Blue-Dyed Fossilized Mammoth Tooth combines genuine prehistoric material with rich contemporary color. Mammoths relied on large, ridged molars to grind grasses and other coarse vegetation. When the fossil tooth is cut and polished, its alternating layers of enamel and dentin reveal naturally intricate stripes, waves, and geometric patterns. The fossil material is dyed in shades ranging from bright turquoise and ocean blue to deeper navy tones. The color settles differently throughout the tooth's natural structure, emphasizing its ancient layers while allowing portions of the original pattern to remain visible. Because each fossil tooth has its own mineralization, wear, and internal structure, every finished piece absorbs color differently and remains completely one of a kind. After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized tooth is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work.

Woolly Mammoth Tooth

Green-Dyed Fossilized Mammoth Tooth brings vibrant color to a genuine remnant of the Ice Age. The mammoth's massive molars contained alternating layers of hard enamel and softer dentin that worked together to grind tough grasses and vegetation. Once cut and polished, those layers produce the material's distinctive striped and mosaic-like appearance. The preserved tooth is dyed in varied green tones that can range from pale jade and moss to deep forest green. The coloring enhances the natural divisions within the fossil, revealing patterns created during the animal's lifetime and transformed through thousands of years of preservation. Differences in tooth structure and mineralization cause every section to accept the dye uniquely, ensuring that no two finished pieces will look exactly alike. After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized tooth is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work.

Woolly Mammoth Tooth

Black-Dyed Fossilized Mammoth Tooth offers a bold and sophisticated interpretation of genuine prehistoric material. Mammoth molars were built from repeating ridges of enamel and dentin designed to grind coarse Ice Age vegetation. These natural layers create striking lines, curves, and geometric formations when the fossil is cut and polished. The material is dyed in deep black and charcoal tones, emphasizing the contrast between the tooth's ancient layers and giving it a dramatic, refined appearance. Subtle traces of gray, brown, and the original fossil coloring may remain visible beneath the darker surface. Every fossil tooth developed and mineralized differently, so variations in shade and pattern are expected. Each finished piece carries its own unmistakable fragment of Ice Age history. After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized tooth is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work.

Woolly Mammoth Tooth

Fossilized Woolly Mammoth Tusk is a genuine Ice Age material that carries the history of an animal that once roamed the ancient northern landscape. Mammoths used their long, curved tusks to scrape snow and ice away from vegetation, defend themselves from predators, compete for mates, and display dominance within the herd.

After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized tusk is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work. It is then carefully cut, shaped, and polished by our craftspeople.

Its natural colors can range from clean white and softly clouded white to warm browns, honey, and rich caramel tones. These colors and patterns develop through age, mineralization, and the conditions surrounding the tusk during preservation.

Every section has its own color, grain, and history, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Woolly Mammoth Tusk

Fossilized Woolly Mammoth Bone is a genuine Ice Age material recovered from the ancient remains of mammoths that once roamed Siberia and other northern regions. Mammoth bones also hold a remarkable connection to early human history. Ice Age peoples used these massive bones to construct shelters and create tools, furniture, decorative objects, and musical instruments.

After thousands of years of natural preservation, the fossilized bone is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work. It is then carefully cut, shaped, and polished by our craftspeople.

Its natural coloring can include cream, tan, brown, gray, and darker mineral tones. The porous structure of the bone creates distinctive patterns that vary according to age, mineralization, and preservation conditions.

Every section carries its own markings and prehistoric history, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Fossilized Woolly Mammoth Bone

Petrified Dinosaur Bone is a genuine prehistoric material originating from various species of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in North America and Africa. Sauropods were the enormous, long-necked herbivores that included some of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth.

The material’s distinctive webbed, honeycomb, and mosaic-like patterns come from the original cellular structure and natural vascular spaces within the dinosaur’s bone. During fossilization, mineral-rich groundwater moved through these microscopic openings, filling the porous structure and gradually turning the bone to stone while preserving its internal pattern.

Like our fossilized mammoth materials, the petrified dinosaur bone is stabilized under immense pressure to strengthen the material and make it suitable for our precision inlay work. It is then carefully cut, shaped, and polished by our craftspeople.

Natural colors can include cream, tan, brown, rust, red, gray, black, and occasional blue or green mineral tones. The color and pattern vary according to the dinosaur species, burial environment, mineral content, and fossilization process.

Every section reveals a different portion of the bone’s ancient internal structure, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Dinosaur Bone

Muonionalusta Meteorite is a genuine iron meteorite discovered in northern Sweden near the Arctic Circle. The first recorded specimen was found in 1906, although the meteorite traveled through space for billions of years before reaching Earth.

Classified as a fine octahedrite, Muonionalusta is composed primarily of iron and nickel. When the material is carefully cut, polished, and etched, it reveals an intricate crystalline design known as a Widmanstätten pattern. This structure developed as the molten metallic core of an ancient planetary body cooled extraordinarily slowly in space—a process that cannot be reproduced under normal conditions on Earth.

Because this meteorite contains a high concentration of iron, we apply a protective ceramic coating to each finished inlay. This coating helps preserve the etched crystalline pattern and provides added protection against moisture, oxidation, and everyday wear.

Every section displays its own arrangement of interlocking metallic crystals, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Fordite, also known as Detroit Agate or Motor City Agate, is a colorful piece of American automotive history. Although it resembles a natural stone, Fordite is created from hundreds of layers of automotive paint that accumulated inside automobile factories during decades of production.

Before modern electrostatic painting systems became standard, paint overspray collected on the tracks, racks, and skids that carried vehicles through factory paint booths. Each new automobile added another layer of color, and repeated trips through the curing ovens hardened the paint into dense, stone-like material.

When Fordite is carefully cut and polished, its hidden layers are revealed as brilliant stripes, waves, rings, and swirling patterns. Colors can range from classic black, white, and metallic silver to vivid reds, blues, greens, yellows, oranges, and purples. Each layer represents a different moment in automotive production and reflects the changing vehicle colors and styles of its era.

Despite its name, Fordite was created at factories operated by several automobile manufacturers and is not exclusive to the Ford Motor Company. Modern painting technology produces very little of this material, making authentic vintage Fordite an increasingly limited and collectible industrial artifact.

Every section contains its own combination of colors and layered history, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Fordite

Bog Oak is an ancient natural wood recovered from waterlogged riverbeds, wetlands, and buried sediments throughout Eastern Europe. Despite its name, it is not a separate species of oak and has not turned to stone. It is genuine oak that has been naturally preserved underground for hundreds or sometimes thousands of years.

When an oak tree becomes buried in a wet, oxygen-poor environment, the conditions dramatically slow the normal process of decay. Over time, tannins naturally present in the oak react with iron and other minerals in the surrounding water and soil. This gradual transformation darkens the wood from warm brown and charcoal gray to exceptionally deep brown or nearly black.

After recovery, the wood must be carefully dried and prepared before it can be cut, shaped, and polished for our precision inlay work. The original grain and growth structure remain visible beneath its dark coloring, preserving the character of the ancient tree.

Bog Oak has long been valued for fine woodworking, carving, furniture accents, knife handles, and decorative inlay. Its dramatic color has also made it a traditional natural alternative to ebony.

Variations in age, mineral exposure, grain, and burial conditions ensure that every section carries its own color and ancient history and that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Corvette Fordite is a rare piece of American automotive history created from layers of genuine automotive paint collected at the Corvette assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

During the earlier automotive painting process, excess paint accumulated on the tracks and carriers that moved Corvette bodies through the factory. Every trip through the curing oven hardened another layer of overspray. Over time, hundreds of individually baked paint layers formed a dense, colorful material that could be cut and polished.

Its stripes, waves, rings, and swirling patterns can feature combinations of red, blue, yellow, white, black, silver, and metallic finishes associated with different periods of Corvette production. The colors revealed in each section depend on the sequence of vehicles painted as the material developed.

Changes in modern automotive painting technology mean this type of Fordite is no longer produced in the traditional way. Genuine Corvette Fordite is therefore a limited collectible that preserves a physical record of America’s iconic sports car.

Every section reveals its own arrangement of historic Corvette colors, ensuring that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Fordite

Stabilized Spalted Beech is a natural hardwood sourced from Denmark in Scandinavia. After the tree is harvested, the wood is carefully aged under controlled natural conditions that allow spalting to develop throughout its structure.

Spalting occurs as different fungi interact within the wood, creating dark boundary lines known as zone lines. These winding lines divide the naturally lighter areas of the beech and form the material’s distinctive landscape-like appearance.

Our material is cross-cut across the direction of the wood grain specifically to showcase these spalting lines. This cutting direction reveals bold, map-like patterns, flowing boundaries, and natural variations that would appear very different if the wood were cut lengthwise with the grain.

After the spalting process is complete, the selected wood is dried and stabilized with resin under pressure. The resin penetrates the porous wood, strengthening its structure, reducing moisture absorption, and allowing it to accept a smooth, highly polished finish suitable for our precision inlay work.

Natural variations in grain, spalting, and color ensure that every cross-cut section creates a completely individual pattern and that no two finished pieces will ever be exactly alike.

Spalted Beech

Cholla Cactus is a distinctive natural material gathered from the deserts of the American Southwest. After the cactus dies and its outer tissue naturally decomposes, it leaves behind a hollow, woody skeleton with an intricate network of diamond-shaped openings. This beautiful lattice structure gives cholla its unmistakable organic appearance.

We responsibly harvest naturally dead cholla branches, then meticulously clean, prepare, and cure the wood. The cured skeleton is cast in colored resin, which fills the open spaces and highlights the cactus’s natural structure while creating a strong, durable material suitable for shaping and polishing. Available resin colors include Black, Aqua, Red, and Blue. Because every cholla branch develops differently, each finished piece displays its own unique pattern, texture, and Southwestern character.

Cholla

3K Twill Carbon Fiber is an advanced composite material made from bundles of exceptionally fine carbon filaments woven into a distinctive twill pattern and set within a durable resin matrix. The “3K” designation means that each woven bundle, or tow, contains approximately 3,000 individual carbon filaments. The twill weave forms the material’s recognizable diagonal pattern, creating visual depth and subtle changes in reflection as it moves under the light.

Known for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, rigidity, dimensional stability, and resistance to corrosion, carbon fiber is widely used in aerospace, automotive, sporting, and other high-performance applications. Once shaped and polished, its deep black coloring and precise woven structure create a clean, technical, and contemporary appearance. Minor variations in the weave and reflective pattern are natural characteristics of the material and make every finished piece visually distinctive.