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Post by tims on May 17, 2017 17:28:43 GMT -5
I've got to add a couple more recharges to my coarse routine, and stop rolling swiss cheese. These are mostly jasp-agate and pet wood from Buffalo Gap SD with a few local NE Wyoming pieces tossed in. Oh and a Brazil endpiece gifted to me.
1 Brazil
2 Banded jasper?
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4 Mostly pet wood, the black & red stuff has big pores
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6 quartz eggs
7 misc.
8 jasper
9 jasp-agate I think the stripey one is healed fractures?
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13 swiss cheese chalcedony, bleh teepees and misc. I like the brown and gray piece
Thanks for looking!
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Post by wigglinrocks on May 17, 2017 17:54:23 GMT -5
Looks like you did your part good . They are nicely rounded and took a good shine . Not your fault some of the rocks didn't cooperate . Not all of us have perfect material to work with . Could toss some in the next batch for filler or have some nice shiny slingshot ammo .
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ryan
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 18:21:52 GMT -5
Great job! That banded jasper is some hot shtuff! great work on the quartz eggs as well as the brazilian piece! N the "healed fracture" in pic 9 remind me of epidote intrusions created by hydrothermal / "metasomatic" reactions flic.kr/p/UBjqbV. Ryan
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Post by coloradocliff on May 17, 2017 18:28:36 GMT -5
They look great. Gotta love all the children you birth even the cracked ones. Sometimes they are the most interesting and give you the greatest joy. They cant all be perfect. Look at the banded agates.. Purdy and purdy cracked. Nice set.
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Post by morerockspleaz on May 17, 2017 19:27:32 GMT -5
Nice selection of rocks, like the jasper's a lot. I just hate it when all of the sudden those little druzy pockets pop out.But you have to love them for their beauty. Are you using filler? I prefer ceramic but others use plastic. I have some to that I am going to re tumble. That Brazilian is really nice. Good 3rd bunch of rocks. Sometimes it is just the material. Thanks for posting your pictures.
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Post by tims on May 18, 2017 0:51:06 GMT -5
Nice selection of rocks, like the jasper's a lot. I just hate it when all of the sudden those little druzy pockets pop out.But you have to love them for their beauty. Are you using filler? I prefer ceramic but others use plastic. I have some to that I am going to re tumble. That Brazilian is really nice. Good 3rd bunch of rocks. Sometimes it is just the material. Thanks for posting your pictures. I do use filler, ceramics in my 2nd stage and marbles and plastic pellets in polish. I've got a big bag of pea gravel but it's low quality stuff and most of it just turns to mud. ryan i may be mis-identifying some of my material, i usually call it what i've heard it called by family unless i've got a solid ID. Thanks for the pic of that epidote, pretty stuff.
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lookatthat
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Post by lookatthat on May 18, 2017 11:17:26 GMT -5
If they were all "perfect", think how boring that would be! The pet wood with the pores makes me think of palmwood --? Any tips on using marbles in the polish stage?
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Post by tims on May 18, 2017 16:17:12 GMT -5
If they were all "perfect", think how boring that would be! The pet wood with the pores makes me think of palmwood --? Any tips on using marbles in the polish stage? Marbles are just nice for bringing the fill level up to pad the polish stage. I never put them in before pre-polish stage and if so they get carried over through polish so they don't get roughed up. Since they skip the coarse stage they hold up really well.
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richardh
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Post by richardh on May 22, 2017 22:39:14 GMT -5
That's some very interesting material and the photos look great. I know all about tumbling Swiss cheese, it seems like that is a magnet to my hand when I am rock hounding.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2017 4:08:53 GMT -5
They look great. Gotta love all the children you birth even the cracked ones. Sometimes they are the most interesting and give you the greatest joy. They cant all be perfect. Look at the banded agates.. Purdy and purdy cracked. Nice set. Cliff, you ain't right. Something broke in your noggin. Please don't fix it! Lol
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Post by coloradocliff on May 23, 2017 8:11:42 GMT -5
They look great. Gotta love all the children you birth even the cracked ones. Sometimes they are the most interesting and give you the greatest joy. They cant all be perfect. Look at the banded agates.. Purdy and purdy cracked. Nice set. Cliff, you ain't right. Something broke in your noggin. Please don't fix it! Lol You aint right??? Only a Texans says that...Been hiding in Callie too darn long.. Get yer butt released from Chino...Won't be for good behavior.. I was only defending yah Gunner. Myself??.. I don't need defended.. People just pat me on the head and give me money. hhehehehe Then of course I just buy more rocks.. Cliff
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Post by Fossilman on May 23, 2017 9:01:50 GMT -5
They all look great to me,nice rolls.........Some material just doesn't like to cooperate....
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