lookatthat
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Post by lookatthat on Aug 17, 2017 9:48:50 GMT -5
Aw, I'd for sure like a small box of tumbling rough, but only if it won't make somebody else feel bad!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Aug 17, 2017 9:54:19 GMT -5
Guess I was typing at the same time. Rob is one of two names on my list to get something from me, when I come up with the right thing. He sent me some Petoskey stones and I haven't forgot. You might not have forgotten, but I did. I was just rereading some earlier comments in this thread thought that "New Smryna" sounded familiar. A friend of mine moved there a couple years ago. He and his wife got me started in lapidary. He hunts at the same deer camp that I do. Now that he moved, he stays with me for a couple days before deer season starts. He sold me a flat lap before I bought my first tumbler so I could polish Petoskey stones, They make some nice jewelry that they sell on their Etsy shop.. They've got nice stuff in their shop. They should open a store down there. A lot of little crafty places up and down the main drag. There's one rock shop, but it's heavy into the metaphysical stuff and everything is overpriced.
I have 4 or 5 of those Petoskey's polished. Worked them by hand and finished with denim, water and a little AO polish. Don't have any corn cob to try your dry polish method. I need to do the rest of them, but dread the 'claw hand' that came with working on them. Tedious work, but worth it.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Aug 17, 2017 10:01:51 GMT -5
Aw, I'd for sure like a small box of tumbling rough, but only if it won't make somebody else feel bad! Rob and Scott don't seem to mind. And aDave , well he lost anyway. Sorry, Dave, I thought you were hot on the trail.
PM me your address and I'll cut up some rough this weekend. Maybe even grind it down a little, for a shorter coarse roll.
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lookatthat
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Post by lookatthat on Aug 17, 2017 10:03:36 GMT -5
But...but you're ruining my day! Now when people ask me "how are you," I can't say "Rotten!"
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 17, 2017 10:08:13 GMT -5
You might not have forgotten, but I did. I was just rereading some earlier comments in this thread thought that "New Smryna" sounded familiar. A friend of mine moved there a couple years ago. He and his wife got me started in lapidary. He hunts at the same deer camp that I do. Now that he moved, he stays with me for a couple days before deer season starts. He sold me a flat lap before I bought my first tumbler so I could polish Petoskey stones, They make some nice jewelry that they sell on their Etsy shop.. They've got nice stuff in their shop. They should open a store down there. A lot of little crafty places up and down the main drag. There's one rock shop, but it's heavy into the metaphysical stuff and everything is overpriced.
I have 4 or 5 of those Petoskey's polished. Worked them by hand and finished with denim, water and a little AO polish. Don't have any corn cob to try your dry polish method. I need to do the rest of them, but dread the 'claw hand' that came with working on them. Tedious work, but worth it.
I'm not sure if it works just as well, but you can use corn cob animal bedding from Walmart. The stuff from the Rock Shed is ground smaller, the walmart stuff is larger. You can do the first two stages in a rotary tumbler and finish them by hand too. The Petoskey in my avatar is completely done by hand and the back is unfinished.
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Post by aDave on Aug 17, 2017 11:47:03 GMT -5
Aw, I'd for sure like a small box of tumbling rough, but only if it won't make somebody else feel bad! Rob and Scott don't seem to mind. And aDave , well he lost anyway. Sorry, Dave, I thought you were hot on the trail.
Thanks for the game Randy. I actually looked long and hard at that 9 o'clock rock, but I didn't pull the trigger on it. I went with the seemingly matching colors of the two I chose for my second guess. Dave
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Post by Garage Rocker on Aug 17, 2017 11:53:34 GMT -5
Rob and Scott don't seem to mind. And aDave , well he lost anyway. Sorry, Dave, I thought you were hot on the trail.
Thanks for the game Randy. I actually looked long and hard at that 9 o'clock rock, but I didn't pull the trigger on it. I went with the seemingly matching colors of the two I chose for my second guess. Dave It was a smart guess. The one you chose looks much less like a Botswana agate than that little red one, from the picture. That was the curve, you were looking for the fastball. Thanks for playing, I'll probably incorporate something like this into my next thread.
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Post by txrockhunter on Aug 23, 2017 18:10:23 GMT -5
Damn, Randy, this is an awesome display of talent here! I'm a little late to the party, so originality is hard to come by..... Great shine on the jaspers in #3 & gotta love the eyes in #13. Great bunch of material, very well polished, with a beautiful presentation! Thanks for taking the time to post!
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