It turns out that this is how jade bead necklaces worth hundreds of thousands at auctions come from!

It turns out that this is how jade bead necklaces worth hundreds of thousands at auctions come from!

Material selection

Jade bead necklaces have extremely high requirements on raw materials, requiring good quality, good and uniform color, and no flaws or cracks. This is too difficult for naturally formed jade. How many people dare to carve beads when they encounter such materials? This has laid the foundation for the high price of jadeite beads. Carving beads is very time-consuming...


In addition to good quality, water content, and color, the size must also be considered. If a piece of material can only be used to make two or three beads, then you can't even make the simplest single-loop bracelet and you have to wait for the next piece of material. Therefore, some people think that using good materials to make beads is indeed a bit crazy.

Cutting

After selecting the material, I start cutting. Use a saw to cut off the cracked or bad parts, then draw the diameter of the beads you want on the raw material, and then cut it. Each circle is a bead.

Chamfer

Jade beads after cutting are generally squares or cylinders, and the edges and corners must be removed. This requires a chamfering machine to remove these edges and corners so that the beads can be ground on a large scale. During this process, the edges and corners of the jade raw materials will gradually be removed, and the shape of the beads will basically take shape.

Grinding and drilling

Although the chamfering machine can remove the edges and corners of small jade pieces, it cannot grind the beads into a very round shape. Therefore, a bead grinder is needed to grind them into a round shape. Under the operation of the bead grinder, the small jade pieces after chamfering will gradually be ground into a spherical shape.

Next, you can start punching holes. Generally speaking, good beads are punched after the parts are selected manually, while ordinary beads are punched using ultrasound.


polishing

Finally, the finished jade beads undergo the final stage of processing and polishing. Generally, high-quality beads with a diameter of more than 20 mm are polished by hand, and poor-quality beads are polished by a vibration barrel. After polishing, they are strung together according to size and color, and a string of jade beads is completed.

Therefore, whether it is wood or jade, daring to carve beads is by no means a sign of being "stupid". In addition to courage and insight, it also requires extremely high experience and skills. Otherwise, if you can't carve good beads, everything will be in vain! Natural jade is a rare treasure gifted to mankind by nature, so we should cherish it.



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