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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 25, 2017 14:11:45 GMT -5
Check out the area 54 thread. It's in Fresno county and had lots of jasper of various sorts including poppy jasper if you are lucky. The thread is in the locations subsection. Also good jasper sites in the Coalinga/Parkfield area which is also close to you. In that section of the interior Coast Range, any stream bed or wash where you can get into gravels beds will have some nice jasper. Nipomo, San Miguel, Paso Robles, Creston area interior coast ranges are good too. I used to hunt several ranches out that way but it's mostly private land. Check out access on any BLM or recreational areas open to collecting too...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 25, 2017 10:14:35 GMT -5
Nope,I just drop it in the litter until the excess oil is off it, then I put in in my tub with dawn dishwasher soap for an hour or so. After that I just set the slabs in the sun to dry a day or so. No staining at all. Used to be a booger to cut on my 20 inch saw though. If the workpiece had the blade running through a long cut with a lot of blade edge contact, the paint rock seemed too draw the oil away from the blade a bit making it bog down. I've noticed some wonderstone does this too....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2017 19:41:14 GMT -5
Yeah, the shadow effect is pretty uncommon. Seems to require an agate with very fine banding and sometimes seems to occur with that turtleback effect too. I've also seen it in Brazilians, Bots, and some of the northern Mexico specimens. Think I even have a Baker Ranch t-egg with shadow effect in my collection somewhere....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2017 17:42:44 GMT -5
Holy moly that is awesome and Halloween themed too...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 23, 2017 20:38:41 GMT -5
*LOL* Too funny!! Especially the "Get a job, skinny jeans". Back in Ojai, there used to be a health food store and man it was run by the skinniest bunch of little tofu eating, beet juice drinking, bean curd chomping, Commies I've ever seen. Tiny little arms and legs like twigs. All looked like victims dying of cancer. Yeah they had jobs but man they all seemed weak, slow and stupid, not exactly an ad for health food. But dang, they all had their torn skinny jeans and anti-Bush tee shirts *L*.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 23, 2017 16:32:14 GMT -5
That is a cool find. One of my rock hunting buddies back in Commiefornia met an old guy with a collection in the yard so long it had sunk in the ground. He wanted it removed so offered it to my friend at a tiny price if he would dig it out. Unbelievable what he brought home but the eye poppers for me were a several hundred pound hunk Of Edison Palm root and a huge very unfractured boulder of poppy jasper. I know another guy with a big rock yard near Bakersfield that has a beautiful poppy boulder in his garden I could never talk him out of. So frustrating!...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 22, 2017 13:43:17 GMT -5
Wow, that is very nice looking rough. I spotted a couple of slabs at a California show one time but the only time I found a hunk of rough was in an old collection from the 1960's. Apparently, not too many folks went on Layton ranch field trips even way back then...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 22, 2017 13:38:39 GMT -5
I've slabbed it with Covington Rocksaw oil, no problem except the blade tends to run drier and maybe bind in the cut more often. Rock was not stained at all after the kitty litter and dish soap wash....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 22, 2017 13:35:07 GMT -5
Pretty material. Make sure and get the Commiefornia material too as the Mexican stuff I bought( paid way to much for) has too many bubbles and defects. The Davis Creek obsidian tends to be very clean and solid with pretty much the same or better color play....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 22, 2017 13:31:30 GMT -5
I like it!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:43:52 GMT -5
My favorite tee shirt is the "Group Therapy" shirt from the NRA. Shows a target with a nice tight group on the bullseye. That kind of therapy is very good. I call it "transcendshootingdental meditation". Very relaxing!...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:35:41 GMT -5
*LOL*. My wife loves teas and that explains a lot..Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:34:39 GMT -5
Dang I wish we had about a hundred of those eagles. Feral cats are a big problem here as all kinds of folks ( aholes) like to drop them off on the ranch . I hates folks who dump their pet dogs and cats along the road or on other folks' property. Very irresponsible and cruel....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:31:53 GMT -5
Wow! What a houseful of pets! Glad you made it through the big'un Donnie. Looked real scary on the news...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:26:54 GMT -5
Man I so wish I purchased a dissecting scope with a built in camera. Slabs and such look so cool through the scope but it's hard to attach an after market camera to my scope....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:21:42 GMT -5
Nice! I can see why you treasure them....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 20, 2017 19:47:51 GMT -5
Holy sharksh*t Batman that is just too cool and what great photogrpahy....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 19, 2017 6:54:59 GMT -5
More of a Rand Paul southerner here. I believe in conservative use of ammo. Like the old rhyme goes, "Two in the heart, one in the head, makes damn sure he's good and dead."
Adam, if you've never shot a gun before, you'd better stick to shooting at center mass. Took my video game playing nephew out on the ranch because he wanted to shoot a pistol. He soon found out playing first person shooter games does not make you a real shooter. Barely hit the side of the mountain and almost dropped the gun to boot. Scared him half to death. Knee capping would have been a totally unrealistic expectation. *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 22:39:40 GMT -5
What taxidermist? Just hang that there, too ugly fer the wall, carcass off'n a barbed wire fence,
If this was in Commiefornia, dumbocrats of course would then charge you a tax for the bullets, check to see you had a background check for the gun and ammo, fine you for a high capacity magazine, claim yore gun was a machine gun, and claim you committed a hate crime and arrest your for not having your gun and ammo locked up separately. Then, they'd round up several thousand other terrorists and link arms with them in a protest march and do nothing while the marchers rioted and burnt down half their city. And then they'd go on TV and blame Trump...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 16:56:48 GMT -5
Wow those are really nice! The flint preforms are my favorites too. Boy, I've collected a lot of Mariposite and that sure don't look anything like it. Looks more translucent and jade like to me. You sure of that ID? Is it soft like Mariposite..Mel
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