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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 12:31:01 GMT -5
Found another mineral. Can't get a picture of it. Nikon has the 'copy' blocked. dino bone
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 12:22:00 GMT -5
Very cool. Frame it for your rock workshop. Chuck Not a bad idea, but I might try to find a copy of the actual print. I try to keep my career stuff out of the house and off my mind when at home. Looks like it won 2nd place in the 2016 contest. And it is the pinup for March in the 2017 calendar
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 12:17:21 GMT -5
I can't take credit for it. I just noticed the cover in my stack of unread mail on my desk.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 10:46:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this has ever been posted here before, but YouTube posted this as a recommendation for me. If you want to skip ahead to the machine actually running it is about minute 20.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 10:28:53 GMT -5
TP Agate makes cover of one of my clinical magazines.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 9:55:08 GMT -5
[ Let me know when you guys are ready, I'll be there in a heart beat. I stay in Athens. Yeah baby!!!
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 8:05:56 GMT -5
from Tennessee, USA!
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 7:40:52 GMT -5
from Tennessee. I see you've already gotten some great advice from our expert tumblers, so I don't really have anything to add. But I do second Jugglerguy about buying extra stage 1 grit. Don't skimp on stage 1, it makes all the difference.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 7:15:34 GMT -5
I have always loved amber. I have several pieces of jewelry made with it. I've just never collected or worked with it myself. I do have one piece that was collected near the cost on one of the Carolinas and cabbed by a friend. I just have not yet set it.
I also have an African Trade Bead necklace, which I believe is actually copal. It just looks and feels so different than my amber. When I first bought it, I didn't know about copal, but did more research on the trade beads and that was how I found out that most are actually copal.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 15, 2017 7:06:05 GMT -5
I walked it good fantastic5. Not a single chip of milky quartz or flint. Did not figure it did, it's an alluvial deposit from up hill neighbor's poor land management during historic times. His top soil, perfect for garden. I wondered about that as soon as you posted your plowing. Still want to come down and poke around some of your old campsites. Can't believe in all my years hiking and collecting I still haven't found a point. We need to kayak the Etowah this winter! I know Tina wants to go too. Plus she's great for getting forgiveness if necessary. Last week my new kitchen appliances were delivered and the installer is a big collector. He was showing me pictures of his boxes of points that he has collected. He actually gets permission to hunt land via his interaction with landowners during installs. Perfect opportunity. He pointed out that the spring that comes up just a few hundred yards from my property line and runs a small wet weather creek through the edge of my yard makes this a perfect spot for hunting. Actually, historically, this was a year round spring that was used to water horses after coming up the mountain. I was told that around the turn of the century it was actually the location of a toll house. Had to pay for the use of the road up the mountain. I borrowed a metal detector once, hoping to find old coins, but not knowing what I was doing, all I found was old nails, barbed wire, a horse shoe, old pipe, just a lot of junk. Because the area becomes a wetland through the winter (probably because we have all built around the area and rerouted the streams) I would think that any indian artifacts would be long covered.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 20:46:37 GMT -5
Beautiful batch. Thanks for sharing and fixing the links!
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 20:40:30 GMT -5
If that rough is only 8-9 mm, that would make a very tiny faceted stone. You lose a lot cutting.
Nice stones! JXR?
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 20:35:16 GMT -5
I'm guessing amber. Copal shouldn't be florescent. Try a drop off acetone. Amber will be unaffected but copal will get sticky.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 14:59:51 GMT -5
I can't see it! iPhone 6s. Try going directly to YouTube. His channel is tess99991. He's got some really interesting videos posted.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 14:54:56 GMT -5
Loved that video Greig. How can you tell the difference between nickeline and silver?
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 6:52:20 GMT -5
Nice ride Jugglerguy! Sure looks like a beautiful afternoon on the lake! If that boat is specially made for this activity, is the prop guarded? Made me nervous to see you so close.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 6:46:07 GMT -5
Please keep posting what you do with this stone. It is so unique and in your hands has so much potential! Watching with great interest!
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 14, 2017 6:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 13, 2017 9:58:25 GMT -5
We just sealed a couple of newly poured concrete pads with: Not sure if it would work for concrete boards, but I would think it would.
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Post by fantastic5 on Sept 13, 2017 9:36:26 GMT -5
Another great set...but that bone...WOW!!!!
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