monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Sept 20, 2016 12:20:30 GMT -5
Love that blue and White one (5.) is that sodalite?
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Sept 16, 2016 17:56:41 GMT -5
Neighbors must be wondering what the heck I'm doing squatted down in the street with a spoon and a bucket! LOL now i'm not getting any sleep tonight! ;0)
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Sept 10, 2016 6:49:56 GMT -5
Have not tried but been thinking about a nylon stocking and some wire to create a net/filter.
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Sept 5, 2016 8:49:22 GMT -5
Its within the general category of orbicular rhyolite. There are a myriad of names for the individual locales and colors. Its should polish well for you. Sometimes orbs will tend to fracture at their margins, but tread lightly and enjoy. Tom Thanks Tom, Googled it and you are absolutely right. Thaks!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Sept 5, 2016 3:56:33 GMT -5
Picked this on up at the theodore Rosevelt Lake near apache trail, Arizona. If anyone knows what it is please let me know... Here it is cut up and wet
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 31, 2016 16:32:28 GMT -5
Ocean Picture Rock from British Columbia. I was hesitant to post this but after thinking about it for a couple of weeks I decided to go ahead and honor the memory of Tom. I would not have the pleasure of owning this material to create beautiful cabochons from if it weren't for Tom working on my behalf. Same thing as in last month's contest - this slab is over a half an inch thick so after trimming out the shape of the cab I had to turn it on it's side and thin cut it down middle. Pretty colours, almost like looking at a seascape in Google Earth. How great is it that you have a rock that will remain forever to remind you of a dear friend. So precious!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 31, 2016 16:23:39 GMT -5
Finished, refinished and re-refinished. Is it always like this? Re-touched the shaping and repeated the above. I didn't want to go for a circle as I wanted to keep a reference to the oblate setting sun in my beach photos. Doesn't look all that much different to before ... Please tell me you can see the difference! This is a piece I hounded on the beach at Whitby on the English North Sea coast, earlier in the year. It was just sat around looking all innocuous like a pebble for a while, when I decided to cut it whilst thinking what to do for this competition. Then 'Bingo'! [ Yeah...It makes a big differense the reshaping...it's much more true to your inspiration now. Really nice and well executed.
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 31, 2016 14:06:39 GMT -5
Been looking forward to my first contest and i totally forgot to take a photo in daylight so all you get is a crappy iPhone photo taken in the kitchen as the day is running out here in Denmark. The rock itselfs comes from a Parking lot somewhere in the States and is probaly some kind of rhyolite. On our roadtrip during the States we were a bit surpriced by the heat, so we decided we needed a couple of days at the Beach, so we booked a nice hotel right on the Beach in Biloxi. It meant we had to drive a bit longer the we normally did pr day but we managed to solve it with some icecream Andrea 3 years We arrived a couple of hours before checkin so we parked the car dieing to go to the beach and we were happy to see a really nice Beach with trees, White sand and the kids were laughing and singing on the Way Down to the water. But something was wrong!!!!....there was this lovely Beach, the sun was shining and it was a really nice day BUT there was not a single person on the beach besides us! Me screaming at the kids not to go into the water and the Oldest had allready dipped her toes in the water giving me THAT look(if you have teenageres you know the look)! But it turned out to be some kind of Flesh eating bacteria in the water so we spend the next 3 Day in the pool. But my cab is going to be a fun memory of that Beach as the red in the cab symbolizes the bacteria in the Water. Mona
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 29, 2016 14:53:55 GMT -5
With the shipping fee to denmark(66$) custom fee(30$)and import fee(25% of the price) + rocks itselfs, I think I'll skip this one. Would be cheaper to get a plain ticket and do a local pick up instead ;0)
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 29, 2016 14:04:16 GMT -5
Who needs diamonds when there are rocks like that!!!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 29, 2016 11:53:28 GMT -5
Apply hammer to resize rocks to 7 inch tile saw size. Tumble little uns! Could work.......went out looking at my rock pile in the garden just a couple of minuts ago and realized that the pile looks so boring and lonely, all just Danish flint and granite....hell I'm going for it!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 29, 2016 10:04:34 GMT -5
monna0000 go for it. This is an awesome price point. Would love to, but the chuncks are Way to big for my 7" tilesaw. But they sure look amazing
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 27, 2016 8:45:59 GMT -5
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 27, 2016 3:11:45 GMT -5
Hi toad, If you ever get a small lot max 4 pound and value max 12 $ ex. Shipping(stupid EU charges) please let me know. Mona
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 24, 2016 12:29:50 GMT -5
Been doing some shopping on EBay and got some agates planning to cut them up and cab them. Here they are straight out of the color factory in China. Hscyl agates = how stupid can you look Done shopping on EBay!
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 22, 2016 14:42:24 GMT -5
Wow, they look so great! Mona
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 5, 2016 2:41:31 GMT -5
Thanks to gemfeller and Don I Think I've got the recepie Need to find a supplier of the gold solution in Denmark ;0)
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 4, 2016 22:52:34 GMT -5
Oh oh i want to try this... But just for the stupid one(me); It must be submitted within the deadline but when is the deadline?
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 4, 2016 21:06:33 GMT -5
This must be the gold plating, but still have to figure out how they make the brass. There are lot's of videos on how to melt brass but having difficulty seeing how that would work with the stone.
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monna0000
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Post by monna0000 on Aug 4, 2016 13:20:25 GMT -5
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