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Post by chris1956 on Feb 24, 2023 19:22:44 GMT -5
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 24, 2023 20:20:36 GMT -5
Wow, you have some really nice specimens! Great job on the polish.  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 24, 2023 20:33:38 GMT -5
Way to go on the polishes! Those are beautiful.  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2023 21:15:45 GMT -5
Freakin' A! Fantastic job polishing those!! Really cool specimens!! |
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khara
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Post by khara on Feb 24, 2023 22:44:57 GMT -5
Wow, those are so cool. # 3 and 2 are my favorites but pretty much I don’t get tired of looking at them. I still can’t believe you people can just walk around and find those things! I suppose if you don’t have it it just seems so unique. All we have here is carnelian and petrified wood. They can be fun but not very spectacular.
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rockbrain
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Post by rockbrain on Feb 25, 2023 11:07:41 GMT -5
Those are beautiful. I love the one with the rough back and edges!
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Post by chris1956 on Feb 25, 2023 18:32:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliments. khara made the comment about Petoskey stones just lying around. I don't know if I would say that. I grew up in Petoskey but have lived my adult life in the Kansas City area. I get back to see family a couple times a year and usually look for Petoskey stones and other rocks while I am there. You can find some nice small ones in easy to access areas but the larger ones I find are typically in areas that are not as easy to access. The pic below shows an area where I looked last spring just a couple days after most of the ice went out. I walked between 2- and 3-miles round trip to this area and climbed down part of the bluff and over the rocks and trees along the shore looking for them. But not complaining too much. Petoskey stones are kind of like other rocks people collect. I bet for everyone pictured here, there are over a hundred that I left on the shore because they weren't that good, threw them away once I got home wondering why I picked them up in the first place, or polished them but they were nowhere near as good as these. My brother and his wife who live north of Petoskey, have a small cottage that they rent out in the summer. They give each guest one of my polished Petoskey stones as a souvenir. They aren't as good as these, but everyone seems to love them. I call them my practice stones.  |
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ashley
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Post by ashley on Feb 25, 2023 18:34:30 GMT -5
Those are awesome! You did a great job on those! |
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khara
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Post by khara on Feb 25, 2023 19:30:35 GMT -5
Aw that’s a cool story about the souvenir stones for the cottage guests! I bet they really do love that. Ya it’s kind of in jest the way I speak. I grew up with a very sarcastic father. 🙂 It sounds like your Petoskey’s are a lot like our native carnelians and petrified woods. A lot of junky smaller materials and every now and then you find something really cool. I’ve found a couple nice carnelians worthy of polishing and photographing but not really enough to keep me going back looking for more of them.
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Post by wargrafix on Jul 19, 2023 3:57:50 GMT -5
Never heard of them. Watches a video with them, paleochris I think. New I badly want one
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 19, 2023 4:29:48 GMT -5
Never heard of them. Watches a video with them, paleochris I think. New I badly want one Michigan Rocks on YouTube has a bunch of videos about Petoskey Stones. |
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Post by wargrafix on Jul 19, 2023 13:22:43 GMT -5
Never heard of them. Watches a video with them, paleochris I think. New I badly want one Michigan Rocks on YouTube has a bunch of videos about Petoskey Stones. I have seen his videos. We really are spoiled for choice with awesome content |
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Post by Pat on Jul 19, 2023 14:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by wargrafix on Jul 20, 2023 1:55:23 GMT -5
He really has a wonderful presentation style. If I ever make it up to a mineral show, for sure one of these I have to pick up. |
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jul 22, 2023 16:01:32 GMT -5
Those are some really nice ones, chris1956, and a great polish too. |
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Post by chris1956 on Jul 22, 2023 19:46:25 GMT -5
Those are some really nice ones, chris1956 , and a great polish too. Thanks. Coming from you that means a lot. |
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Post by aGates on Jul 28, 2023 21:50:26 GMT -5
 My auntie loves in traverse city she is visiting the Puget sound this week. I was given this Petoskey and I had it face polished 12 hours later. Love these stones. |
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Post by texhex on Aug 6, 2023 15:34:31 GMT -5
The polished ones are AMAZING
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Post by chris1956 on Aug 8, 2023 14:18:07 GMT -5
My auntie loves in traverse city she is visiting the Puget sound this week. I was given this Petoskey and I had it face polished 12 hours later. Love these stones. Very nice one. Thanks for sharing. |
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This is one that I cut first and then polished one side. I found this on Lake Michigan in Petoskey close to the old cement plant. I think it was probably from one of the old quarries and was piled up next to the shore until the shore was erroded and it was on the beach. The following is the backside of the rock. There was no polishing of the rock from being in the water a long time. 
