spokanetim
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Post by spokanetim on Jul 11, 2010 0:31:16 GMT -5
Hi, I'm interested if you have some slabs that you mistakenly cut to thick and now don't know what to do with. They need to be uniform thickness, greater then 1/2 inch but less then 3/4 inch. I'm looking for colorful materials (agates, jaspers, good rainbow obsidian, etc), little too no pits, better then 6 hardness and take a good polish.
If you can put together some at a reasonable price let me know!
Thanks, Tim
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joemojave
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Post by joemojave on Jul 11, 2010 0:37:17 GMT -5
How many are you looking for? I could cut you a few for a project if you want. I don't think you are going to find many mistakes that are the same thickness, especially that thick.
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spokanetim
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Post by spokanetim on Jul 11, 2010 0:52:39 GMT -5
Hi Joe, good to see you again. No real amount in mind, just a variety of thick slabbed stuff with nice colorful patterns. I know occasionally people make mistakes cutting, the local guy I buy from does but I already bought his. Maybe if you can put together a medium flat rate box with nice thick stuff for $25 (including shipping) I'd be interested in buying it. I know it's not that much but I was hoping to buy 3 or 4 boxes each around that price of mistake slabs.
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joemojave
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Post by joemojave on Jul 11, 2010 15:30:29 GMT -5
Sorry, I gotta pay 10 cents per square inch of cut to use the clubs saws and I cant afford my own slab saw. I would probably loose money on a medium FRB like that. By the way I owe you some star garnet IIRC.
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spokanetim
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Post by spokanetim on Jul 11, 2010 17:16:15 GMT -5
Yah, that's why I was just wondering if there were some thick mistake slabs that were already done and laying around someones shop not being used. It's expensive to have custom cut slabs at that thickness, especially with decent rock. NP on the stars . Remember that half are yours! I can cab a pretty good star now if the garnet is solid.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 11, 2010 20:19:11 GMT -5
Yeah Tim, the price you're wanting to pay is kind of low. Good polishing material plus the cost of saw time would make for a pretty expensive medium flat rate box price. Just good tumbling stuff can be a couple of bucks a pound and man, that dang saw time really increases price. I think it may cost me more than 10 cents per square inch on my own saw and that's exclusive of what the rough would cost. Nice colorful faced and proved rough usually winds up in my tumbler or in my slab grabber for further cutting. It's too good to pass by. You might check with Rodney and Jamie ( Desertdweller) here in our group. They cut some nice thick slabs and seem to let them go at very reasonable prices....Mel
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 12, 2010 12:12:15 GMT -5
Thicker slabs of good pattren & color with few pits or fractures and w/o taper are not "mistakes" even if cut thick by mistake. If a slabgrabber does allow cutting a thinner slab, or thick slabs can make a thick donut with high dome on both sides, or making beads or marbles is an option. If nothing else, chunking these slabs up for tumble material with good pattern and color is an attractive option - as opposed to disposing of it for less then $1/lb. Good patterned tumble rough is generally $2/lb.
Perhaps you could solicit endcuts. Some folks may tryly want to dispose of some of these. But you will need to get a slab grabber and pull the thick slab out of it.
Good luck
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spokanetim
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Post by spokanetim on Jul 12, 2010 12:36:57 GMT -5
Sorry guys, I guess this post shows my lack of understanding of cutting stones. I didn't know about slab grabbes and never thought about the options of making good tumble or marble material. I'll save some money up and give you guys some custom orders for thicker material at the going rates. Someday I hope to get a 16-18" saw.
Tim
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 12, 2010 15:50:03 GMT -5
Me too. I do a lot with my 10"ers but would really like to have an 18" saw.
You don't describe your project. Possibly granite countertop or stone tiles could be useful? Broken pieces of these are often given away or available for scrap rates at local stone fabricators, or in the discount bin at home improvement stores.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jul 13, 2010 0:14:18 GMT -5
i'm not at home right now, ut when i return at the end of this month. I have some thick labradorite chunks, around 20 lbs. i think. If you can wait i will look at what i have left when i get home. I would probably let them go for $1 a lb.
mary ann
pm me in a couple weeks so i don't forget.....
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 13, 2010 8:36:28 GMT -5
Its all just a learning experience. I've never had a slab that was too thick. Those end up being high dome cabs or get resawn to thinner slabettes. Slabbing does take a lot of time though and time is money, even for a hobbyist. That's why I try and sell cabs, to make more money for more tools.
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 14, 2010 9:29:32 GMT -5
i'm not at home right now, ut when i return at the end of this month. I have some thick labradorite chunks, around 20 lbs. i think. If you can wait i will look at what i have left when i get home. I would probably let them go for $1 a lb. mary ann pm me in a couple weeks so i don't forget..... $1/lb is a nice price for any rock with blue flash in it. All the same, I think the stuff you have is something like Blue Pearl Granite. Labradorite is a massive feldspar, with large areas of flash. The granite has many small bits of feldspar in it. Some of the black areas pit a bit but can be sealed. After all, they make very smooth countertops out of the stuff. Just being a rock name nerd.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jul 14, 2010 10:42:28 GMT -5
nope its labradorite...... but they are leftover chunks from a man who made a whole wall of it in an office building. At least he told me it was. Its pretty nice and has flash in it. I just don't need or want it anymore so he can have it cheap.
mary ann
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Post by deb193redux on Jul 14, 2010 19:33:30 GMT -5
wow. a wall of massive feldspar. i wonder where got the material. all the commercial tile and fabrication is granite.
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