flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 23, 2017 16:04:09 GMT -5
I'm new to this site and new to collecting. Someone recommended this to me. Right now I'm obsessed with agatized coral and have about a ton of it. Now needing to learn.
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Post by captbob on Oct 23, 2017 16:12:08 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor! St. Pete here. What part of Florida are you in? Big time coral lover here as well. Also, jamesp in in GA is our coral god! Lots of threads here for you to see and tons of experiments with tumbling corals posted by James. WELCOME to the forum! ETA: Gainesville! Go Gators! Forgot the location shows in the avatar area.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Oct 23, 2017 16:40:42 GMT -5
Wow nice corals. Welcome to the RTH.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 23, 2017 18:35:10 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor! St. Pete here. What part of Florida are you in? Big time coral lover here as well. Also, jamesp in in GA is our coral god! Lots of threads here for you to see and tons of experiments with tumbling corals posted by James. WELCOME to the forum! ETA: Gainesville! Go Gators! Forgot the location shows in the avatar area. That one's a river rat Bob. Don't think we could keep up w/that one on our best day. Welcome a board Liz. Show em what ya found. Need help posting coral, can't post enough. Great forum to inquire about that rock saw. Lots of great advise and helpful people here. Good to see you join.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 23, 2017 18:44:38 GMT -5
Welcome to RTH. Great looking corals.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Oct 23, 2017 19:35:59 GMT -5
Nice finds! Welcome to the forum.
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Post by MrMike on Oct 24, 2017 6:15:36 GMT -5
Welcome from Tennessee!!!
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 24, 2017 9:47:46 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum.......Loads of info on this forum....
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 24, 2017 9:56:09 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor! St. Pete here. What part of Florida are you in? Big time coral lover here as well. Also, jamesp in in GA is our coral god! Lots of threads here for you to see and tons of experiments with tumbling corals posted by James. WELCOME to the forum! ETA: Gainesville! Go Gators! Forgot the location shows in the avatar area. That one's a river rat Bob. Don't think we could keep up w/that one on our best day. Welcome a board Liz. Show em what ya found. Need help posting coral, can't post enough. Great forum to inquire about that rock saw. Lots of great advise and helpful people here. Good to see you join. Ha me a river rat??? Yes I am and proud of it. Glad you told me about this Jim a/k/a coral king! I may be heading up to GA searching this weekend...I hope!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2017 10:39:39 GMT -5
Bring on that adventuresome spirit Liz. A breath of fresh air. I'd meet you down there but I believe I have a conflict this weekend. The category that discusses saws is this one forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/board/19/cutting-rocks-slabs-sawsYou can get away with a 14 inch saw. 18 inch is better for coral but a much bigger free standing unit. The 14 inch is often a table top if your space is limited. If I had to do it over again I would have gotten a 24 inch saw, but it is a giant.
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 24, 2017 13:50:28 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor! St. Pete here. What part of Florida are you in? Big time coral lover here as well. Also, jamesp in in GA is our coral god! Lots of threads here for you to see and tons of experiments with tumbling corals posted by James. WELCOME to the forum! ETA: Gainesville! Go Gators! Forgot the location shows in the avatar area. Yep Go Gators! Since you are in St. Pete have you checked out the coraling down there? I went to Honeymoon Island back in May...not much but found a little.
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 24, 2017 13:52:19 GMT -5
I'm new to this site and new to collecting. Someone recommended this to me. Right now I'm obsessed with agatized coral and have about a ton of it. Now needing to learn.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2017 16:45:49 GMT -5
There is not a lot of coral field collectors here Liz. You and I may be the show. You being a hale and hearty kayaker is key to collecting coral. Coral is basically an agate. More like petrified wood, except it is petrified coral. No matter, it is still a fine lapidary material for making cabochons and tumbled rocks out of. Certainly fine specimens. World class botryoidal specimens. The two above are called botryoidal, with the booby formations for a lack of better word. I traded with Arlen radio. A member here. A bunch of botryoidal pieces and look what he made for my wife OMG I have traded coral for cabs made. These are a few www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157634810917906I think you will want to consider getting a 14 inch lapidary saw eventually as a starter saw. You may think about a rock tumbler. Coral is fun rock for the tumbler. Rock clubs in your area of course.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 24, 2017 16:56:47 GMT -5
I found this coral On Handcart Road in a little creek right in your back yard, Zephyr Hills. Home of some of the finest coral. I will tell you where the creek is, hopefully it is not posted yet. I wish you would go charm your way onto some of the land owner's property over that way north and northwest of Zephyr Hills. a long haul for me. It is often found in the deep irrigation ditches in the orange groves. guessing the New River is full of it. From Handcart Road. Heat treated it and sent it to our master carver in Hong Kong Kurt kk. It is a bat hanging upside down for upcoming Halloween. Orange and black motifs.
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 25, 2017 13:54:24 GMT -5
Howdy neighbor! St. Pete here. What part of Florida are you in? Big time coral lover here as well. Also, jamesp in in GA is our coral god! Lots of threads here for you to see and tons of experiments with tumbling corals posted by James. WELCOME to the forum! ETA: Gainesville! Go Gators! Forgot the location shows in the avatar area.
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 25, 2017 13:59:52 GMT -5
There is not a lot of coral field collectors here Liz. You and I may be the show. You being a hale and hearty kayaker is key to collecting coral. Coral is basically an agate. More like petrified wood, except it is petrified coral. No matter, it is still a fine lapidary material for making cabochons and tumbled rocks out of. Certainly fine specimens. World class botryoidal specimens. The two above are called botryoidal, with the booby formations for a lack of better word. I traded with Arlen radio . A member here. A bunch of botryoidal pieces and look what he made for my wife OMG I have traded coral for cabs made. These are a few www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157634810917906I think you will want to consider getting a 14 inch lapidary saw eventually as a starter saw. You may think about a rock tumbler. Coral is fun rock for the tumbler. Rock clubs in your area of course.
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flmermaid744
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Post by flmermaid744 on Oct 25, 2017 14:06:18 GMT -5
I found this coral On Handcart Road in a little creek right in your back yard, Zephyr Hills. Home of some of the finest coral. I will tell you where the creek is, hopefully it is not posted yet. I wish you would go charm your way onto some of the land owner's property over that way north and northwest of Zephyr Hills. a long haul for me. It is often found in the deep irrigation ditches in the orange groves. guessing the New River is full of it. From Handcart Road. Heat treated it and sent it to our master carver in Hong Kong Kurt kk . It is a bat hanging upside down for upcoming Halloween. Orange and black motifs. I've been to Zephyrhills years ago. You know I'll be googling it now that you mentioned it. Can't believe the coral is so far in land. I will be down that way during Christmas time to see my mom so I had already planned to go try my luck at Honeymoon Island again. Hey, what does the outside of coral like this look like? I'm sure it doesn't look like the withlacoochee stuff.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 25, 2017 15:26:20 GMT -5
I found this coral On Handcart Road in a little creek right in your back yard, Zephyr Hills. Home of some of the finest coral. I will tell you where the creek is, hopefully it is not posted yet. I wish you would go charm your way onto some of the land owner's property over that way north and northwest of Zephyr Hills. a long haul for me. It is often found in the deep irrigation ditches in the orange groves. guessing the New River is full of it. From Handcart Road. Heat treated it and sent it to our master carver in Hong Kong Kurt kk . It is a bat hanging upside down for upcoming Halloween. Orange and black motifs. I've been to Zephyrhills years ago. You know I'll be googling it now that you mentioned it. Can't believe the coral is so far in land. I will be down that way during Christmas time to see my mom so I had already planned to go try my luck at Honeymoon Island again. Hey, what does the outside of coral like this look like? I'm sure it doesn't look like the withlacoochee stuff. Much whiter than Withla coral Liz. Tell me when you are heading down there and I will give you the location. It is only colorful coral, no hollow coral there.
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Post by TheRock on Oct 26, 2017 10:11:45 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on Oct 26, 2017 10:28:27 GMT -5
welcome from California! Glad you are here Someone needs to keep jamesp in line Just a little note of posting procedure - when quoting someone else's post it's best if you type your new information after the final quote brackets. This way the reader can easily see what you have added and doesn't have to look into the quote to try to see what new info you have added. Hopefully this makes sense. Just as a point of reference, I edited your post above so you can see your comments are now outside of the box that indicates what is being quoted.
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