What it is

Intro to Lapidary is a first-party beginner cabochon-cutting class at B Golden Jewelry School, a hands-on jewelry school and tool shop in Salt Lake City, Utah. The official class page says: “This class is only about stone. No metal, no soldering, just cutting and polishing until a dull lump turns into something with depth in it.” The class covers which rocks cut well, using the saws to cut clean slabs from rough, shaping a flat slab into a domed cabochon, polishing through the grits to a shine, and reading a stone to find its best part. Students take home one or two finished cabochons, ready to set. The class is capped at three people. B Golden Jewelry School mainly teaches metalsmithing and jewelry classes and runs a retail shop for tools, silver and stones. This listing covers the lapidary class only, not the school’s metalsmithing program or tool store.

Who it’s for

Beginners in Salt Lake City and along the Wasatch Front who want a short, very small class on cutting and polishing stone, especially people with “a shelf of rocks you’ve been meaning to do something with”. No experience is needed. The class page suggests taking it “with a friend or your kid”. The school’s FAQ says children 8 to 12 need parental supervision and help with some tools, while students 13 and older can work independently. Students who later want to set their stones can follow up with one of the school’s metalsmithing classes.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party lapidary workshop with a printed Salt Lake City street address, a printed dollar price, a published class size, a public class calendar run by the school with dated 2026 sessions, and a written cancellation policy. It is not a scraped directory card, not a gem-club meeting listing and not a supply storefront.

Price (class page, checked 2026-10-09): the class is sold through the school’s own online shop at $115.00. Under “What it costs” the same page says “$5 to $10 depending on materials”. Students bring their own rocks (“apple-sized or smaller”) or buy material from the studio’s selection.
Sessions (the school’s Class Calendar, a public Google Calendar embedded on bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/class-calendar, checked today): “Intro to Lapidary Class 6-8pm” repeats every Monday from June 29 through December 21, 2026, and the calendar entry links back to the class page. Remaining 2026 Mondays: October 12, 19 and 26; November 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; December 7, 14 and 21.
Class size (class page, checked today): “we cap it at three people”.
What to bring (FAQ page, checked today): stones smaller than a grapefruit, ideally a few so the instructor can help pick a good first one. Small slabs are for sale in the studio. Wear clothes that can get wet or dirty, bring glasses and tie hair back.
Lapidary studio access after the class (Studio Time page and FAQ, checked today): “Access to use the rock saws and cabbing machines requires a 2-hour lapidary class” and is available during business hours. Hourly lapidary studio rental is $25 an hour. Consumables are not included, and students should text ahead to make sure there is room at the rock machines.
Cancellation (Class Cancellation Policy page, checked today): more than 7 days before class, a full refund minus a 15% fee. Within 7 days, credit for a future class minus 15%. Within 48 hours, day of class or no-show, no refund or credit. Each booking can be rescheduled once, credits must be used within 60 days, and arrivals more than 15 minutes late may be turned away. If the school cancels, students get a full refund.
School context (About page, checked today): founder Brittany Golden brought her teaching studio to Salt Lake City in 2013, and the business moved into a larger Salt Lake City building with a retail tool, stone and silver shop in March 2021.

The price, calendar dates and policies above are what the official pages showed on the check date. Classes close and fees change. Confirm on the live class page before treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

Last checked: 2026-10-09

https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/products/intro-to-lapidary

B Golden Jewelry School home: https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/

Class Calendar: https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/class-calendar

FAQ (what to bring, ages, studio time): https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/faqs

Studio rental and lapidary studio access: https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/studio-rental-membership

Class Cancellation Policy: https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/class-cancellation-policy

Contact: https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/pages/contact

Location

The class meets at B Golden Jewelry School, 775 E 3300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84106 (Contact and FAQ pages, checked 2026-10-09). Text or call 801-396-0146. Email [email protected]. The retail shop is open Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and texts are answered during retail hours. Class start times vary by class.

This is a jewelry school studio with a lapidary room and a retail tool shop. It is not a gem club’s meeting hall.

Notes

Category is Workshops. This is a fee-based, small-group beginner cabochon class with a printed price and dated sessions. The school also offers metalsmithing, stone inlay and combined lapidary-and-metalsmithing classes, but this entry covers only Intro to Lapidary.
Price wording: the page shows $115.00 as the class price, and the “What it costs” line says “$5 to $10 depending on materials”. The page does not say outright whether the $5–$10 is added to the $115. It reads as a materials charge on top of the class price, and the listing describes it that way.
Dates come from the school’s own calendar, not the class page. The class page has no date picker. The Monday 6–8 p.m. series comes from the school’s public Google Calendar, which the site embeds on its Class Calendar page and points to from the FAQ (“Do you have a master calendar of classes scheduled? We do!”). The calendar lists the instructor as “Jaime”. The About page profiles a lapidary teacher named Jamie Winters, a lifelong rockhound whose polished stones are sold in the retail store. The spellings differ, and the site does not say for certain that they are the same person.
The FAQ says classes usually close 24 hours before they start, and a class may be cancelled if too few people sign up.
The About page says the business also bought a jewelry school in Austin, Texas, in August 2020. This listing covers the Salt Lake City studio only.
Lapidary Plaza already lists Wasatch Gem Society (Sandy, Utah) under Clubs. B Golden Jewelry School is a different business, city and category.
The first-party class photo (a student holding a slab up to a trim-saw blade) is saved as b-golden-jewelry-school-intro-to-lapidary.jpg. It came from the class page’s Shopify product images (lapidary_class_cabochons.jpg, 3840×2160) and was resized to 1200×675 and JPEG-recompressed only.
Not affiliated with Lapidary Plaza.
No Lapidary Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: How much is B Golden Jewelry School’s Intro to Lapidary class?
A: The official class page (checked 2026-10-09) lists $115.00, and its “What it costs” line says $5 to $10 depending on materials. Bring your own rocks (apple-sized or smaller) or buy from the studio. See https://bgoldenjewelryschool.com/products/intro-to-lapidary

Q: When does it meet?
A: The school’s Class Calendar shows Intro to Lapidary every Monday, 6–8 p.m., through December 21, 2026. The remaining 2026 dates are October 12, 19 and 26; November 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; and December 7, 14 and 21.

Q: Do I need experience?
A: No. The class page says no experience is needed and the class is capped at three people. The FAQ says children 8–12 need parental supervision, and students 13 and older can work independently.

Q: What will I make, and can I keep using the machines afterward?
A: One or two finished cabochons, ready to set. After the 2-hour lapidary class you can rent the school’s lapidary studio (rock saws and cabbing machines) for $25 an hour during business hours.

Q: Is this a gem club or a supply shop?
A: Neither as listed here. This entry is under Workshops. It is a fee-based beginner cabochon class at a jewelry school. For membership gem societies, see Clubs. For equipment and rough, see Suppliers.