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Post by puppie96 on Mar 8, 2008 16:51:13 GMT -5
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Mar 8, 2008 17:11:31 GMT -5
Pup...those are great!
As far as getting a uniform shine-sometimes it has to do with the rock & sometimes the type of polish. I stopped using the last 2 stage polishes from one of my local shops & bought from another. Boy! Did that make a difference!
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Post by Cher on Mar 8, 2008 19:44:47 GMT -5
I don't know Pup, I'm seeing lots of shine in there. Lots of nice lace too. Guess you never really know what's in your back yard until you get to diggin in it.
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darrad
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Post by darrad on Mar 8, 2008 22:27:46 GMT -5
I see a great shine on a beautiful bunch of stones. Cool batch!!!
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Post by BuiltonRock on Mar 8, 2008 22:40:50 GMT -5
You sure Showed me!
john
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 8, 2008 22:48:11 GMT -5
Look shiny to me Pup! Love that Lace. I've got a little but have yet to try it. Pretty stuff!....Mel
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 9, 2008 2:09:16 GMT -5
This is weird. I know that hours ago, I posted something in this thread saying that the shine is great in real life, but my photos don't reflect that, so to speak. The polish washes out in my photos while for everybody else it seems to be easy!
The weird thing is, my post then and another one on this board, seem to have disappeared!
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Mar 9, 2008 10:19:41 GMT -5
Amazing shine on them. And being picked by yourself, they are even more interesting, aren't they? Especially if you still have some rough ones to see where did you start from and where did you arrive.
Mississippi wood! Great finds!
Adrian
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Mar 9, 2008 10:31:19 GMT -5
Nice Pup. One thing I noticed is that there are a lot of nooks and crannies in that lace- I can't see where you think the shine is bad- but I was thinking with all those pits and such there sure would be a lot of places for cross contamination. Also I have started using tin oxide as my polish of choice. I let my batches run for 3 weeks in polish. The tin oxide seems to do a far superior job on mixed hardness stones! Just some food for thought- I think your stuff turned out really great- I have some MO Lace in different stages now and boy is it a challenging tumble- just some many places for stuff to hide!
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oriongal
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Post by oriongal on Mar 9, 2008 11:43:58 GMT -5
It's in your first post as well, Pup, but in a quick read it does read like you are disappointed in the result rather than the photos of the result. It's probably because you initially say you want to know why you have a hard time picking up the polish - rather than why the camera has a hard time picking up the polish, or why you have a hard time with the camera, picking up the polish. Just semantics and you do go on to explain that you mean the photos rather than the stones, but I also had to read it twice because in first read I also thought you meant you were disappointed in the polish on the stones. And I was thinking to myself that I could certainly live with that kind of disappointment...  Great stones all the same, even if you don't feel like the photos are doing them proper justice, <grin>. Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you on the photography aspect, but hopefully one of the folks who do often post the stunning pics will have some for you. |
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 9, 2008 12:55:53 GMT -5
Hi -- the strange thing is that I posted a follow-up trying to clarify the semantics and it was the follow up post that vanished!
Stefan, I have been using tin oxide for a long time. Since I use the good old lototumbler for polishing, it only takes a half tsp. for a load so who cares about the expense -- a jar will last me forever, and besides, I bought a bunch of it on the Kingsley North summer sale a couple of years ago and that worked out really well.
I used to try to grind out everything, but now I have become more tolerant of the holes. You can't see it too well in these photos, but the ones I left "holey" for the most part have crystals down in the vugs. The crystal caves are cool. I know that it looks like cross contamination would be a nightmare, and I can only say that the loto pretty much takes care of it. It is a very efficient rock washing machine. Just some detergent and borax and water added at the end of a run cleans it off well and a good hose down takes care of the rest. Usually I get the high gloss polish with only one run through. If I think it's not quite popping, I just repeat the washup process and do it again. Usually I leave it about 24 hours each time. Sometimes the holes make for really interesting looking rocks.
Of course, MO lace comes out best when you cut it. The slices it makes are just awesome.
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Post by Titania on Mar 10, 2008 7:26:43 GMT -5
I think those came out great, pup!! I really like the backyard finds in your first picture. And they all look like they've got a great shine.  |
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Mar 14, 2008 7:37:37 GMT -5
OK so it's the pictures your not happy with- Well that is the problem with digital- the film is cheap so we tend to get a lot pickier! And your correct- the lace does make for some WONDERFUL slices and dices! Not the easiest stuff in the world to cut- but SOOOO worth the effort- hmmmmm got me wanting to fire up the saw this weekend- I got a few MO lace chunks just BEGGING to see some saw time!
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Post by puppie96 on Mar 17, 2008 4:54:55 GMT -5
I always love to see what people do with the MO lace. I've got the best collection of MO lace I've seen, with a big color variety. I wish another deposit of Union Road agates would show up. I've seen displays of those that made me crazy. Nothing else is like them.
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