You may note that my link pages are short and sweet. I think that sites that just link to anything are a waste of time and only link to relevant websites.

To be linked here:
These are must for a link exchange, so please do not waste both of our times.

• Your website must be relevant to the subject of lapidary or jewelry. Not just selling jewelry or diamonds.
• If the site is just a sales advertisement and has no valid content to Lapidary and Jewelry I will not link to you.
• If the site is difficult to navigate, I will not link.
• Your website must have an obvious "Links" page on your home page.
• You must of course reciprocate links.
• I must be able to find my links easily on your site with in a few clicks/minutes.
• If you have a lot of flash and garbage on your site I will not link.

If you are looking for faceted stones or faceting rough be sure and check out my other website www.faceters.com

Custom Cut Gemstones

• Jacksgemsjewelry.com - Custom cut gemstones and jewelry.
• Custom-cutgems.com - Custom cut gemstones.
• Koalatcutgems.com - Custom cuy gemstones.
• Gemsbygregory.com - Custome cut gemstones.
• All-gem.com - Custom cut gemstones.

Gemology and Gemstone Information

• North American Lapidary Laboratory - Provides gem artists, lapidaries, gem dealers, jewelers, appraisers, insurers, the courts, and consumers an accurate, in depth, easy to understand, third party analysis of gems and gem art at a reasonable cost.
• Sunstone Mining Company - Sunstone mining, claims, fee digging and Oregon sunstone information.
  

Hobby Sites and Information

• Rock Tumbling - a site for beginners and pros alike.

Jewelry Sites and Information

• Bench Jewelers Magazine - This is a great information site on bench (metal smithing) and the magazine is something most smiths should get. lot of tips, projects, and just genral information on jewelry making.

Search Engines I Like - You may have noticed that there are a lot of search engines out there now trying to charge website owners for placing their "urls" with them. They are also using paid placements for the search results. What this means is that they are ranking websites by who paid them money, not by content or quality of the website. I think this is an unacceptable practice for a search engine and seeing as they are usually popping up all kinds of banners and other advertisements (that they are making money on) that you need to wade through at the same time, it is not worth using these search engines.

I would normally not link up search engines, it did not used to be necessary. But I think the good ones need to be supported, so...

• Google - This is fast and returns good information without advertising. At least on the search and results pages.
• SearchHippo - This is a nice search engine and you do not need to put up with all of the advertising garbage that is typical of a lot of search engines.

Trade Links - Below is a selection of different Business links of people I know...

• Rock Peddler They supply almost anything you might want in lapidary supplies.
• Starr Gems, Inc. - Friends of mine and a reliable supplier of jewelry supplies.
  

Trade Links - Below is a selection of different Business links...I have not done business with any of these people and cannot recommend any of them from personal experience. But I thought they were worth listing, so use you own judgment...

• Aerolite: Meteorites for Sale
  Aerolite Meteorites specializes in the highest quality iron meteorites for sale, rare meteorite books and photography, science articles and expeditions.
• Canadadiamonds.com - Wholesale Canadian mined diamonds, fine gold and platinum jewelry.
• Idealcanadiandiamonds.com - Wholesale ideal cut AGS certified Canadian diamonds.
• Jewelry-21 - Jewelry Armoires, Hot Diamonds & Created Gems Jewelry. An extensive range of superbly designed jewelry and beautiful storage furniture.
• Jewelrymagazine.com - Online jewelry magazine.
• Mother's Rings: The Gift Your Mother Will Always Remember -The idea of the Mother's Ring is simple design a ring with a setting for each child, represented by the birth stone for each one of you.
  
• Mylittlerockshop.com - Interesting rough and slabs.
• Meteoritesplus.com - At Meteorites Plus we carry a variety of Meteorites at affordable prices.
• Oliviahoff.com - rocks, minerals, fossils, crystals, artifacts, crafts, jewelry, CDs, books. A family business since 1952.