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Post by ryan on May 24, 2017 13:13:15 GMT -5
Ryan, You do such interesting and difficult to polish stuff. If you did locally produced stone products including tumbled but also sculptured stone and marketed it to tourists under a Colorado tag you could sure do some selling but it would , sadly be the marketing, and less your work that got you money enough supplies to break even. A good ide of where to get ideas is to visit and check out the places who are already successful or semi successful and see how and what they are making it on. I see up scale slabs, cabs and even a lot of jewelry that is nice but moves slowly. Tons of very good people on line who are working hard, doing what the love and still aren't really making it. I have a friend who is bring me some stuff, including a rare boulder of an opalite jasper boulder. Paying 750 but its beautiful material. I believe I have your email if you want to see pictures. Same man is selling an inter net business that includes a bunch of 18 inch saws and tons of material. TONS !! Looks to be a lot of hard work that would steal your joy and your precious time. Peachy, You really worked that agate hard. So smooth and perfect. How much material did you remove from the rough? 1/2 or so? Thank you so much mang! I think you can have some of my treasures hehehe Call me when you got time talk to talk stone (er) 9703330568 Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 22, 2017 22:03:07 GMT -5
Thank you it would help if I could tumble it n show it polished huh? Maybe even have its hardness can you tell I'm just getting started thanks again n here's a link to an album of stuff I've been finding here in Colorado (to thank you for your time) www.flickr.com/gp/145526734@N05/p0nn13
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Post by ryan on May 21, 2017 22:18:42 GMT -5
Hello and welcome from colorado! Feel free to ask bout anything this site has really helped me a lot with information Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 21, 2017 12:59:11 GMT -5
Hello fernwood, thank you for liking my blue quartz I like your stone you've collected reminds me of stuff round here (colorado) I'm thinking it's gneiss, the red/whites are feldspar, the green crystal is olivine and the green that doesn't is chlorite I could be wrong especially bout the green but I'm thinkin the green was mica that went through metamorphosis Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 21, 2017 12:05:55 GMT -5
This guys tumbler is pretty serious, hope it might help you get an idea of what your lookin for sorry if it wastes your time. Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 21, 2017 11:44:45 GMT -5
Nope, both stones were part of a big bucket I bought full of mixed-up rough. I've got more of the Brazil & plan to run another batch soon but I want to shape it better. It does not get shaped in the rotary because it's really hard agate. So I'm gonna preform on the wheel. Rock on! I like to shape stuff on my Lil saw as well, helps things go faster and smoother Been thinkin bout selling batches, can I get an opinion on this material? Perty please the mixed batch pic is unakite n granite mixes, epidosite n the pic with the lighter is unknown stuff im findin got bout a hundred lbs but i think the green is either epidote or chlorite n the red is some kind of ferris oxide the black is Horneblende? flic.kr/s/aHskZGK752
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Post by ryan on May 21, 2017 10:11:47 GMT -5
Good lookin agates! Great job on the tumble n it looks like you got green aventurine, if it didn't have mica it would be green quartz. It's really cool though did you collect this yourself?
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ryan
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Post by ryan on May 19, 2017 19:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by ryan on May 18, 2017 23:21:42 GMT -5
Great work! That pendant is beautiful, I was wondering the same about such shapes, here's some of my experiments flic.kr/s/aHskVohZEZIs the last photo thompsonite? Great call! I just read wikis page on thomsonite N I think it's a match n I wanted to send you a box of stone when i read about max but thought it might be weird, but now that you've helped me Id this I really think I should at least offer some of this thomsonite would you like a lil fun box of this stuff? flic.kr/s/aHskZTezx3 Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 18, 2017 20:29:39 GMT -5
Great work! That pendant is beautiful, I was wondering the same about such shapes, here's some of my experiments flic.kr/s/aHskVohZEZ
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Post by ryan on May 18, 2017 14:58:16 GMT -5
Ours is almost melted but worry about the long cold night brings to my plants. Have you ever hounded over by Creede? Havent but supposed to be some interesting stuff there. How far is your place from there? C Yeah I hope your plants take tonights chill OK n tomorrow looks chilly as well, I jus put out a bunch of bird seed,the birds are all singing like crazy today! I feel bad for the lil guys like the humming birds :l n creede looks interesting it's bout 200 miles away n round a 4hr drive u got some free time coming up? I bet now it's all covered in snow elevation is bout the same as here
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Post by ryan on May 18, 2017 13:11:41 GMT -5
DARN that silly ol' global warming! Where are you Ryan? Have a guy in Colorado on my gun forum that has 10+ inches on the ground and it's still comin' down. oh yeah, cool pics, thanks for posting! We both know its not called Global Warming anymore. Now its being called Climate Change so the alarmists can convince weak minded people and young people that its real instead of a fraud to get huge amounts more money from the middle class for a bloated and incompetent government. Ryans in Colorado with me. I got 2 inches in Montrose, Colorado but melting quick. Im in a lower valley.. 6,000 ft elevation, Ryan is a couple thousand feet higher over west of Denver.
Very well said my friend, once you've been convinced that death is something to be feared you can be ruled. We're at 15" right now n it's still coming down! Bout to go shovel hope ol man winter doesn't get me
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 21:12:01 GMT -5
Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan Ryan you're too smart.. Thanks for the tip. Saes a lot of digging when nthe forest does it for you. Those tree killing beetles aren't such a bad thing after all. .Snowing, wet , cold brr.. Did you se that tumbling rig that Belinda had put together? It so rules.. 4 barrel rock tumbler, I motor.' Little hassle. Maybe you need extra capacity so you aren't impatiently waiting. Instead you're up every morning and every night you're changing something.
Has any of your orders come in? U gotta tumbler?
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 21:06:47 GMT -5
Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan Ryan you're too smart.. Thanks for the tip. Saes a lot of digging when nthe forest does it for you. Those tree killing beetles aren't such a bad thing after all. .Snowing, wet , cold brr.. Did you se that tumbling rig that Belinda had put together? It so rules.. 4 barrel rock tumbler, I motor.' Little hassle. Maybe you need extra capacity so you aren't impatiently waiting. Instead you're up every morning and every night you're changing something.
I haven't told anyone else about that method, it's like a guy in a row boat that decides to put up a sail and use the winds effort so instead of having to labor and row his way around he sits back and enjoys the ride it works are there any dead or blewd over trees in your area? If so check it out n hell yeah that chics tumbler was pretty beast... I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 more barrels rollin sometime down the road when I get better at this stuff. Check out this crazy brother foo!
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 19:26:35 GMT -5
That chunk is going to be hard to get into a tumbler... hehehee Bet you'll even do a good job on the una types.. hehehe Cold down valley too. Covered thousands of flats of lowers, veggies and perennials outside 22 degrees is what the man is saying.. brr Catch you later bro.. Fill that tumbler back up... grin.. Think maybe n old water heater would be big enough? ha it just hailed pretty bad, I'm hoping for rain (erosion=stone) the forests up here started dying like 20 yrs ago (blue spruces survived and are re populating) and the trees died standing and are now being blown over so there are hundreds of holes created by the root balls comin up and all I do is check them holes for whatever it produces:) n I can clean up a hole n come back next spring n erosion will have revealed new stones ryan
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 19:00:40 GMT -5
Great specimens! A few years ago my grandfather passed away and I received his collection of fossils/stone and had no clue what these were, n one is in the bag so it keeps its smell of Arkansas acorns/my grandparents house flic.kr/p/Ujy2fs
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 18:21:52 GMT -5
Great job! That banded jasper is some hot shtuff! great work on the quartz eggs as well as the brazilian piece! N the "healed fracture" in pic 9 remind me of epidote intrusions created by hydrothermal / "metasomatic" reactions flic.kr/p/UBjqbV. Ryan
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 16:08:02 GMT -5
Ryan You're working with some of the rocks that got me interested at first. You're doing a good job on a wide variety of material and many of them hard to polish. I like the natural look without cutting or anything. Doesn't have to be a fancy show girl for me to love em. Following granddads foot steps is a very good thing. Bet he's smiling at you. Get any guitar time in. May 17, 2017 13:14:34 GMT -6 coloradocliff said:
Ryan You're working with some of the rocks that got me interested at first. You're doing a good job on a wide variety of material and many of them hard to polish. I like the natural look without cutting or anything. Doesn't have to be a fancy show girl for me to love em. Following granddads foot steps is a very good thing. Bet he's smiling at you. Get any guitar time in.
I agree, the more natural the better (most all my collection is natural or opened with a hammer n chisel) I'd love to show you the geology up here if you got some time it takes me about 2 to 3 hours to get around 60 lbs gathered n the hike is 20 mins at 30 to 40% grade...
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Post by ryan on May 17, 2017 13:00:57 GMT -5
very beautiful granite! Rockhounding builds character and always teaches us something new about geology and nature. Granite forms deep underground when volcanoes die and the magma in the chamber slowly cools allowing the feldspar and quartz crystals time to line up with the Earths magnetic field eh.? Why is that granite there? Was it formed locally or brought in from somewhere else via glaciers or tectonic movement? What is the bedrock composed of where you are at? Just curious Thanks again! And this area might be a mixture of both locally formed and glacial deposit granites, I have no degree and only been houndin for 3 years but I've learned a lot from the good people on this site and the thread metamorphic gems has the area pegged as an "andesitic volcanic tuft" n I'm starting to envision the area before the big upward movement that created the current mountain chain as like Yellowstone National Park with hydrothermal activity. Here's an example of variety from the area flic.kr/s/aHskVF3X4G
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