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Post by stoner on May 3, 2006 22:00:34 GMT -5
It's been a few days since I did any new cabs(had to do some REAL work) but here are 7 new ones. Sagenite 40x30mm  Another Sagenite 40x30mm  Swazi Bloodstone 40x26mm-This one was a cabo-gone right off the saw, so that's why it's 4mm thinner.  Graveyard Plume 30x22  Freeform Graveyard Plume 35x20mm  These next 2 are material that Cal gave me. Mamamby Jasper 40x30mm  Agua Nueva Agate. 32x22mm  I flipped it upside down and took a second pic to try and show the "eye" and the druzy pocket a little better.  And here it is back-lit  And that's it for this time. |
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Post by Cher on May 3, 2006 22:21:08 GMT -5
Oh Yeah!! Those are too cool I love them all!!
And more, that swazi bloodstone looks like you put a puzzle together, that is so cool! Still like the Graveyard Plume Point the best, you really captured something special in those.
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Post by joe on May 3, 2006 22:41:21 GMT -5
Oh Wow!! The freeform graveyard looks like underwater life. It's awesome! The agua nueva (I had to look at that three times just to spell it) is worth looking at more than three times! All the rest, man, you are talented!
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Post by stoner on May 4, 2006 0:16:56 GMT -5
Thanks. The freeform plume agate was made into a cab just because I didn't want it to go to waste. The auga nueva looks really cool in person. The red parts in the agate look like they are floating.
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Post by deb193 on May 4, 2006 0:37:53 GMT -5
The freefrom plume turned out real nice
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Post by rockds on May 4, 2006 1:02:15 GMT -5
very nice ed, like 'em all but the Sagenite is something I've never seen before. Do you have a slab of that that you could post
robert
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Post by stoner on May 4, 2006 1:05:36 GMT -5
I posted it in the photos section Robert. It's listed as I love Agates. I'll see if I can find it.
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Post by rockyraccoon on May 4, 2006 5:11:31 GMT -5
stoner no bad ones in that bunch! i like those sagenites. i'll have to look for some of that.
kim
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Post by stefan on May 4, 2006 11:30:03 GMT -5
Outta the park on those Stoner!!!!
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Post by 181lizard on May 4, 2006 11:57:50 GMT -5
Gotta tell ya...that Nueva Agate is SAWEET! Druzy is soo pretty, but I'm thinkin that Mamamby jasper is my fav. cause of the green. (I have a penchant for green)
Top Shelf Ed!
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Post by pagstones on May 4, 2006 12:34:53 GMT -5
Yummmm! They are all real nice! Each one is so unique it is hard to pick a favorite. I am curious as to whether you filled the druzy vugs with wax to work with them. Also curious if anyone has a simple way of getting green wax out of vugs.
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Post by WyckedWyre on May 4, 2006 13:25:19 GMT -5
Ed, you get better all the time! Can't wait to see what you do with the Prudent Man.  S |
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Post by gemkoi on May 4, 2006 14:53:36 GMT -5
Ed, the freeform to me is the best one. You oreintated the PLume perfect in that one, and the shape really fits it well.
Page; i never had to use wax in druzy. BUt you could try either boiling it out in a pot of hot water, not too hot bcasue the stone may break. Or using acetone and soak the stone, clean out eax, resoak, continue until wax is all out. Or try an ultrasonic cleaner too.
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Post by hermatite on May 4, 2006 15:22:08 GMT -5
Oh my goodness...breathe herm...breathe!!!! Those are amazing. The Mamamby Jasper is something right out of a van gogh painting. You did a splendid job!
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Post by krazydiamond on May 4, 2006 15:39:01 GMT -5
stunning work, Stoner, they are all works of art! that mamamby jasper looks like it's a lifeform from another world.....too cool!!!!
KD
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Post by stoner on May 4, 2006 18:46:14 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. I think the graveyard plume is my favorites too. I'm working up another freeform with the leftover slab and it looks like a completly different stone.
Pagestone, I've never used wax in adruzy pocket, but I think KD did and wrote a post about how she did it.
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Post by krazydiamond on May 4, 2006 19:49:07 GMT -5
i did, indeed.......Bear told me how to dop with druzy, you use sugar to plug the vug. it's water soluable. take some tape on the side you are going to grind and fill the back with sugar. then wax the back. remove the tape (tap out the sugar) and grind, repeat to polish the back.
i wouldn't have a clue how to get wax out once IN a druzy....
KD
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Post by stoner on May 4, 2006 23:42:19 GMT -5
KD, what if the druzy pocket doesn't go all the way through, like in the case of the auga nueva agate I did?
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Post by sandsman1 on May 4, 2006 23:52:58 GMT -5
lookin good ed my fav the sagenites too dam cool haha
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Post by stefan on May 5, 2006 9:54:37 GMT -5
Great way to get wax outta a vug is to soak in rubbing alcohol- takes a couple days but it works!
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