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Granny's Rocks project "complete"

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wyorock starting to shine! Member since October 2023 Posts: 35	Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jun 28, 2024 18:42:38 GMT -5 RWA3006, rockjunquie, and 10 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wyorock on Jun 28, 2024 18:42:38 GMT -5

chris1956 driving up their electric bill Member since July 2022 Posts: 2,403	Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jun 29, 2024 9:20:09 GMT -5 dshanpnw and wargrafix like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by chris1956 on Jun 29, 2024 9:20:09 GMT -5 Nice polish!

wargrafix Cave Dweller Member since June 2023 Posts: 1,088	Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 3, 2024 12:22:43 GMT -5 dshanpnw likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wargrafix on Jul 3, 2024 12:22:43 GMT -5 Jun 29, 2024 9:20:09 GMT -5 chris1956 said: Nice polish! Yup I agree!, its taken a fabulous polish!

rockjunquie Global Moderator Member since March 2012 Posts: 34,969	Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 3, 2024 15:45:15 GMT -5 dshanpnw likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockjunquie on Jul 3, 2024 15:45:15 GMT -5 Purdy!

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Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 3, 2024 18:14:37 GMT -5 dshanpnw likes this

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Post by tims on Jul 3, 2024 18:14:37 GMT -5

nice mossys ... Montana / Yellowstone? A couple of them look Sweetwater-ish. And what's that red and black material along the top row of your first pic? reminds me of clinker. Cool batch and thanks for sharing.

dshanpnw fully equipped rock polisher Member since December 2020 Posts: 1,158	Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 3, 2024 19:47:17 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by dshanpnw on Jul 3, 2024 19:47:17 GMT -5 Nice Montana agates and very good polish, well done. Thanks for sharing.

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Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 4, 2024 8:20:33 GMT -5 tims likes this

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Post by wyorock on Jul 4, 2024 8:20:33 GMT -5

I don't think she collected any sweetwater agates so I assume all Montana. The red and black... very interesting rock and didn't polish as well as I had hoped. The red and black seem to be of different hardness because even though it looks fractured is very tough, not brittle, and maintained the pre-tumble shapes I made. I have some left over not yet sawed and am contemplating trying a batch by itself. Thanks for the comments. If it is clinker... any suggestions to improve product?

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Granny's Rocks project "complete" Jul 16, 2024 0:46:24 GMT -5

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Post by tims on Jul 16, 2024 0:46:24 GMT -5

Sorry for the delayed response. I've rolled clinker (at least that's my best guess at what it is, lots of coal beds around here) with agate / jasper etc and some of it came out ok and some was trash. The best ones were fairly uniform hardness but took a pretty dull shine. Others I've tried have chipped out or undercut and pitted probably from inconsistent hardness. I think it's similar to a ceramic hardness at best but every piece probably varies and I don't know any tricks to improve beyond what you're doing now, your pieces look as good as my best results so far.

I did wrap one piece of it and it sold at a rock show so somebody likes the look of it. I think it's pretty. If you hear a more reliable identification of the stuff let me know.

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Granny's Rocks project "complete"

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