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Post by Jurrasic Jonje on Mar 6, 2007 22:40:43 GMT -5
man those are looking good.
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 7, 2007 0:00:54 GMT -5
Thank you Roger, now just pretty please tell me how to find the tipi agates in all that rock I have sitting here.
MWAH!!!
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Post by LCARS on Mar 7, 2007 0:36:05 GMT -5
I love these step-by-step threads, one can almost tumble vicariously through following them. ;D Hmmm, I have pondered doing one of these as well but i'm holding off until I know I can commit to the level of documenting I want to accomplish. I applaud anyone with the nerve to start a thread and who actually sticks it out with good consistent photos and meticulous record keeping to the end. I once did this really cool time-lapse session on some weird mushrooms sprouting out by the compost box in my mom's back yard. I just happened to notice them and I had the idea to time-lapse them growing and just couldn't resist! It was the perfect opportunity for me to try capturing the growth over several days. I set the camera up on a tripod and powered from the adapter off an extension cord. I set up a hutch to cover the camera from the elements and I didn't have to worry about it getting stolen since there is no way in or out except through the house (and it's a quiet neighbourhood). I think I got about 100 + some odd frames at 45 minute intervals until the dew sensor triggered the camera to abort the sequence and shut down. At any rate I got just enough footage to make a short movie out of it. I've tried to turn the still frames into an actual movie file but I have no idea how to do that with crappy W98se and no fancy shmancy program to do it for me. I have to settle for watching it as a still frame slideshow using ACDsee but it's maxed out at 1fps, when ideally there should be 4-6 frames per second to make a short but really trippy 15-20 sec movie out of it. If anyone here can provide the means for that to happen, I would be more than happy to post the vid here for everyone to enjoy.
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 7, 2007 1:23:46 GMT -5
LOL -- I had the same concerns about starting a step by step. I didn't commit until after I washed out the first run through. I'm going to try to be disciplined.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Mar 7, 2007 10:29:00 GMT -5
Your doing great Puppie- Heck if I get a shot of the rough rock (before cutting) and the finished product- well I consider myself lucky!!!
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chinook203
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Post by chinook203 on Mar 8, 2007 12:05:24 GMT -5
Pup, those are looking terrific! Great job on them! Sandy
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 9, 2007 2:33:39 GMT -5
Sandy, in not too much longer you may have even better stuff that you picked up yourself!!
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Post by Zoran on Mar 9, 2007 7:38:12 GMT -5
Beautiful lace. They are shaping nicely.
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Post by chinook203 on Mar 9, 2007 22:43:23 GMT -5
Pup......I keep thinking about it! All this warm weather........
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 10, 2007 4:39:47 GMT -5
Yeah I know. For some reason what is really eating at me is the badlands. Everytime the rock beds show up on the screensaver I feel a tug...........
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Post by chinook203 on Mar 11, 2007 8:58:18 GMT -5
Well let's go!!!!!!!!!
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 12, 2007 3:39:54 GMT -5
Hi, it's late but I took the photos, and fun to post if I get it right. Here's what we've got after another 6 days, If I didn't mess this up. Now these should be those that I decided to remove from the barrel, for reasons that may or may not be evident. This one looks like another piece from the same rock as the last take-out. It still is a little rough on the edge but that vug is crystal filled. And here is the back side of one of those in the take-out group. Sometimes it is hard to decide. Advantage of the vibe is that you can always give these a short run with something else, and see what happens. More some other time.........
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Post by chinook203 on Mar 12, 2007 22:27:24 GMT -5
They are looking fabulous Deb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 13, 2007 2:34:26 GMT -5
So anyhow, I needed some more rocks to get the barrel to some reasonable level. Here's the stuff that went in this time, and a peek down the barrel ready to go. About the last set of photos, I've never seen anything quite like that small brown rock on the left side of pictures 3 and 4. It really looks like iron and I picked up this stuff in an iron mining area. This stuff has those pits in it but with the contrast and a patterned look it is cool, so to be on the safe side I'd just as soon vibe it a bit and see what happens. That maroon looking rock isn't MO lace agate (duh), I picked it up in the igneous area of the state and it was in a bag of MOlace so I threw it in. Next time around, we may include some suspect Mozarkite I picked up yesterday.
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 16, 2007 23:41:55 GMT -5
After 5 more days. I was tempted to take some out this time, especially since I'm always struggling to keep a double vibe fed. I thought better of it, though, even though I'm beginning to worry about some of them. I split the large one with the huge crack with the rock hammer and put it back. It is actually a beautiful rock. This one is unique. I've never seen a molace that looked like this and I don't think it was that impressive when I put it in. The photo doesn't do it justice; there are crystals down in the center vug and the pattern is exquisite. The matrix looks like a lump of iron. I'm afraid this may only be surface deep, but I took my chances and put it back in the barrel. This is what I'm using to fill in the space. Yes, it isn't molace, but it is stuff I picked up last weekend that I think may be low grade mozarkite. This is from the local area (ie here in the burbs.) Are you guys bored with all this?
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Post by LCARS on Mar 17, 2007 1:45:03 GMT -5
It's never boring as long as there's another progress report coming...
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Post by chinook203 on Mar 17, 2007 7:55:54 GMT -5
Not bored at all! I love seeing the progress reports Deb! Keep them coming! And your local stuff isn't bad at all!
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Post by jjckitti on Mar 17, 2007 8:50:06 GMT -5
very neat. Love the process even if I see it daily with Jonje. I like to see what others have and how they turn out. Pretty stuff you got.
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 23, 2007 1:25:15 GMT -5
Here's this evening's washout. This time a lot of them looked really nice and felt really smooth. A few it is a matter of whether or not to leave well enough alone with some of the vugs. Anyhow, I had enough to pull now to fill a vibe barrel. It was getting dark when I took the pictures so no photos of the ones I pulled, you'll have to trust me on this! I like the way the color mix looks with the addition of the flint/mozarkite(?) from last week. Of course that stuff has a ways to go to get smooth. That stuff sometimes has interesting inclusions, crystal cavities etc. The thing with the vibe, by the way, is that if I get to the end it is easy to throw a rock back in the barrel. It takes enough rocks to feed a hungry vibe that I sometimes pass along the dubious ones just for filler. Doesn't hurt anything. This time I filled the extra space in the rough grind barrel with more of the flint/mozarkite, more MO lace nodules, and a very odd looking MO rock that might or might not contain lace agate in what appears to be an iron ore of some sort and maybe some igneous rock. I picked it up at Silvermines. It might be one of the really dramatic darker colored ones that occasionally turn up but are usually really vuggy.
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 26, 2007 1:57:43 GMT -5
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