Tools and Raw Materials

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Design Resource

Hand-carved beads

Following are the tools and raw materials required for Soapstone Beads:

• Soapstone: Basic raw material used in stone beads making.

• Gimlet: A small T-shaped tool with a screw tip for boring holes.

• Sand Paper: It is used for smoothing beads.

• Small Chisels: It is used to create different shapes and sizes of beads and varieties of design patterns on beads.

• Hack Saw Blade: Its use to make beads separate from the lathe machine

• Lathe Machine: It is used to make different varieties of beads.

• Hand Operated Drilling Machine: Its used to make small sphere shaped beads.

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