waterboysh
spending too much on rocks
Member since April 2021
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Post by waterboysh on Sept 11, 2024 10:46:02 GMT -5
I do not have a creative/artistic mind at all. I really want a way to display some of my rocks. The walls of my room are pretty bare, so that's what I want to do, but I was thinking of something that looks a little better than just a shelf with a ton of rocks on it. In the living room, there is one of those typesetting trays, which honestly is perfect. But to keep the rocks from falling off, just from things like doors closing and vibrations moving them slightly over time, I used some "museum wax" to hold them in place. So you can't really pick them up and look at them whenever you want, which I don't like. Plus, a good number of my favorite rocks are to big to fit in something like that anyway.
I've got some tools and am proficient with cutting and building things... it's the imagining what I want to make and what I need to make it happen that is hard for me. Once I know what I'm doing I don't have much of a problem. So just wondering if y'all could share some of the ways you've got your rocks displayed.
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Post by Pat on Sept 11, 2024 11:26:26 GMT -5
I use lawyer book shelves since they have a separate glass door on each shelf. Works well. Would be nice if the shelves were white washed; I could see the rocks much better. I think they are stained oak.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Sept 11, 2024 11:34:10 GMT -5
We have a type case in which our son displayed his toy cars and figures when he was a boy. One possibility, if you're willing to modify your type case, would be to cut and glue wood strips in each compartment. Adding such rims should prevent small rocks from falling out. You can find various wood strips on Amazon.
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Post by pebblesky on Sept 11, 2024 12:04:26 GMT -5
Love to see this discussion.
I haven't done any laser cutting, but my far future plan is to make some modular laser-cut shelf cells with acrylic doors of different sizes. They could be assembled and arranged as I need. Well making that shelf might take longer than tumbling. A less skilled solution will be to use affordable building blocks with trans-clear door pieces.
If I don't want a rock to lean towards a trans-clear door or to be "glued" to something, I will create the base of the stone with translucent clay and glue the base to the shelf. As long as the base is deep enough, the stone will stand quite securely, but the base won't be completely translucent so the bottom part of the stone is occluded. A more dedicated solution would be to use resin to make the stone's base, and if I was a perfectionist, I would make the resin base between stage 1 and stage 2 of tumbling that stone.
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Post by parfive on Sept 11, 2024 13:38:12 GMT -5
A few degrees of tilt on a shelf or display case should safe the goodies from any house vibration.
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