jm
having dreams about rocks
Member since October 2015
Posts: 56
|
Post by jm on Nov 30, 2017 3:11:15 GMT -5
Now that the weather has turned cold and rainy I'm back working on rocks in the garage again. I just finished my first ever batch of cabs and thought I'd post pictures of them. These are the ones that turned out mostly well, there were 4 or 5 others that broke during the process. I've learned that I need to pay a lot more attention to fractures in the rock and either work around them or glue them up first Anyway, I don't think I did to bad for my first effort. I've still got a lot to learn, though. In the top picture, the round cab with the white stripe down the middle is from a chunk of agate my daughter found in the stream when we were fishing up on Mt St Helens. The three mossy looking ones right below it are cut from the center of a Richardsons Ranch thunderegg. All the rest of them came from slabs I picked up at garage/estate sales, so I couldn't say what they are (other than the very bottom right one that appears to be polka dot agate).
|
|
fishnpinball
Cave Dweller
So much to learn, so little time
Member since March 2017
Posts: 1,491
|
Post by fishnpinball on Nov 30, 2017 4:26:25 GMT -5
Nice looking batch of cabs. I am a novice also, but yours look great.
|
|
|
Post by vegasjames on Nov 30, 2017 6:36:59 GMT -5
Very nice looking cabs.
|
|
|
Post by rockjunquie on Nov 30, 2017 7:18:17 GMT -5
Those are seriously nice whether your first effort or 50th. Your rounds are crazy awesome. I can't pull them off as nicely. Great job!!!!
|
|
|
Post by Bluesky78987 on Nov 30, 2017 9:49:27 GMT -5
Wow those are great! Very smooth uniform curves, and you don't seem to be thrown off by different hardenesses of areas of the material. The one your daughter found is my favorite!
|
|
|
Post by fernwood on Nov 30, 2017 22:00:14 GMT -5
VEry. very nice. Love your daughters find.
|
|
jm
having dreams about rocks
Member since October 2015
Posts: 56
|
Post by jm on Dec 1, 2017 15:22:41 GMT -5
Wow those are great! Very smooth uniform curves, and you don't seem to be thrown off by different hardenesses of areas of the material. The one your daughter found is my favorite! Thanks, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I wasn't thrown by the different hardnesses. The top left and bottom right ovals in the first picture both have flat spots in the profile. I just positioned them so it wasn't very apparent in the picture:) Those two were some of the first ones I did, so I knew what to pay attention to after that.
|
|
jm
having dreams about rocks
Member since October 2015
Posts: 56
|
Post by jm on Dec 1, 2017 15:28:19 GMT -5
VEry. very nice. Love your daughters find. It turns out that I'm really bad a predicting what other people will like:) I would have guessed that the more colorful ones would be the crowd favorites, but most people that I've shown them to liked the same one you do.
|
|
56steve
starting to shine!
Looking for fellow rock hounds in my area
Member since November 2017
Posts: 25
|
Post by 56steve on Dec 2, 2017 7:10:07 GMT -5
awesome..
|
|
|
Post by pghram on Dec 9, 2017 14:30:25 GMT -5
Nice batch, you have a good eye for selecting patterns.
Peace, Rich
|
|