Rough Supply Company started because I couldn't find enough of the rough I wanted to cut.

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As a faceter, I was always looking for something a little different—higher-end garnets, larger unheated sapphires, rare tourmalines, and interesting material that made me want to sit down at the machine and start cutting.

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There are good rough suppliers in Canada, but I saw room for a different kind of selection. I wanted to build a collection around the material that excites me as a cutter: beautiful colour, interesting origins, unusual stones, and rough with the potential to become something exceptional.

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That's what Rough Supply Company has become. I source rough that I would genuinely want to cut myself, describe it as honestly as I can, and make it available to other cutters without the headache of sourcing everything individually from around the world.