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Post by gemkoi on Aug 30, 2006 14:06:49 GMT -5
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 30, 2006 14:50:01 GMT -5
ooooo, those are cool! love the Spencer Opal...where does that come from? great work!
KD
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 30, 2006 15:54:17 GMT -5
Ooh nice! that sagenite looks like a bomb blast. Never tried pietersite before but it looks pretty neat too...mel
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WyckedWyre
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Post by WyckedWyre on Aug 30, 2006 16:20:23 GMT -5
Oh, now I'm partial to the Pietersite, nice shape and color orientation. SOLD! ;)S
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Post by Tweetiepy on Aug 30, 2006 16:46:37 GMT -5
I'm blind! I'm blind! the shine is amazing - I love them all but I have a soft spot for the opal and the pieterstie (sp?)
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Post by Toad on Aug 30, 2006 16:52:10 GMT -5
Love the pietersite. Looks like a couple rocks thrown together.
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Post by sandsman1 on Aug 30, 2006 21:15:50 GMT -5
lookin good man the pietersite is my fav but all lookin good
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Post by rockds on Aug 30, 2006 21:25:59 GMT -5
those are nice, really like the pietersite, don't think i have seen that before - great work on all.
robert
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Post by Cher on Aug 30, 2006 21:47:54 GMT -5
Oooooooo They are all nice but that Blue Pietersite and the Spencer Opals are gorgeous!! Nice job Shain, very nice job.
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Post by sandsman1 on Aug 31, 2006 0:24:17 GMT -5
i had to come back for that Pietersite man thats very nice
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 31, 2006 0:33:14 GMT -5
shain not a bad one in that bunch! that is one of the nicest blue pietersite cabs i believe i've ever seen.
kim
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Post by stoner on Aug 31, 2006 1:11:45 GMT -5
Nice job Shain. I really like the peitersite.
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rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Aug 31, 2006 2:44:06 GMT -5
Nice to see some Spencer opal, there Shain! I was just through Spencer last Friday and again yesterday- picked up 5 lb of rough "opal bearing rock" and a nice jar of pieces culled down to color, I can hardly wait to start cutting that stuff up!
It was quite a trip- bought "miner direct" spencer opal, Prudent Man agate and Bruneau Jasper-
not to mention about 20 lbs of other misc stuff that was self-collected along the way, probably won't have time to put together a full trip report before my next run to Arizona this weekend.
but I really need to stop spending money on rocks!
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Zoran
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Post by Zoran on Aug 31, 2006 3:50:44 GMT -5
Top level material and cabs. Thank you, Shain for showing them.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Aug 31, 2006 9:58:37 GMT -5
Great grinds there Shain- Love em all!
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Post by gemkoi on Aug 31, 2006 13:32:39 GMT -5
Thanks guys, Ya that Blue Pietersite is so nice. I been hangin onto a large slab of it for about 5 years now and decided it was time to work it up. It very hipnotic and the color is like metal. I also like it becasue less than 1/3 is optical quartz. Giving that clear depth is very cool.
Rally, that Spencer is by far my fav. Ive seen allot of it, but rarely as nice as this piece is, it very flashy even in very low light. Make sure you post your photos of the stuff you got. It very fun to work for sure.
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Post by joe on Aug 31, 2006 23:33:20 GMT -5
Wow Shain, they're all very nice.
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rallyrocks
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Post by rallyrocks on Sept 1, 2006 18:23:35 GMT -5
Well I started into my first attempt with Spencer opal last night, had a really nice piece in matrix that was about a full 1" circle that seemed to have good fire and looked to be pretty deep into the rhyolite. But after grinding down the matrix it proved to only be a couple mm thick and broke in half.
I'll be lucky if I get even a tiny piece from it in the end, at least I have about 5 more pounds of the stuff to play with when I get back next week...
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Post by gemkoi on Sept 1, 2006 21:05:30 GMT -5
R u using a flat lap? As i will work away the overburden to the fire layer on my grinder. Then take it to the flat lap and slowly work upto the full layer. ONce thats done and i am close, not fully to the layer. I will stablize it, or glue a backing slab to the flat surface. Both ways unsure more ddurablity to working it further and minimal breakage.
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Post by rocklicker on Sept 3, 2006 0:15:04 GMT -5
Awesome cabs, especially the blue Pietersite. THose are some top notch cabs. Nice job on all of them! I could look at cabs all day.
Steve
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