cutter
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by cutter on May 25, 2008 12:29:08 GMT -5
Howdy All. Although I have plenty to do this weekend, I felt a need to re-acquaint myself with my wheels. So I dug through the drawers to find some candidates. These were elected. I had forgotten how difficult a well calibrated stone could be. The ovals are all 30X40s. The others are about 3" in size. The first is a mossy/plumey kind a thing with a whole lot going on inside.    The next two are out of a slab of TeePee   This is a jasper with some nice soft pastels  Fifth is a beautiful piece of plume  Next is two views of some Amethystine agate. Very very thin   Some sort of jasper with some dendrites along the bottom.  Don't know what this Green cab is. It looks like it should be translucent but it is not. It is rather soft and left a greasy fell on my hands  Last is a thin piece of apple green jade.  All in all I had a pleasant time working and was pretty satisfied with the results even though I hadn't done any cabbing for too long. |
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Post by Bikerrandy on May 25, 2008 12:47:59 GMT -5
pic # 6 is porcelian jasper, that's an awesome cab!! I like the first two the best, looks like a little world inside.  |
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Post by stardiamond on May 25, 2008 13:25:35 GMT -5
Beautiful cabs. #4 is Sci fi
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adrian65
Cave Dweller 
Arch to golden memories and to great friends.
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Post by adrian65 on May 25, 2008 13:55:44 GMT -5
Every cab is so unique and beautiful! No 6 is my favorite.
Adrian
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by SteveHolmes on May 25, 2008 16:08:51 GMT -5
What some awesome cabs! My favs are of course the Teepee Canyon..especially the 1st one~! Close 2nd goes to the Sci-Fi and the 5th Plume after that. I'm gonna have to try to find some time to do a few this weekend.
Thanks for sharing!
Steve
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colliel82
has rocks in the head
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Post by colliel82 on May 25, 2008 16:32:18 GMT -5
Beautiful work.
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thomtap
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by thomtap on May 25, 2008 19:42:25 GMT -5
Six is my favorite too, but I would be proud to have made ANY of them! Great work!
Thom Tapp
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Post by stonesthatrock on May 25, 2008 22:34:01 GMT -5
very nice cabs. I like the last green one.
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holdemplyer
spending too much on rocks
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Post by holdemplyer on May 26, 2008 7:19:26 GMT -5
Those are some really great cabs with an awsome shine! |
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Post by Tweetiepy on May 26, 2008 7:43:06 GMT -5
The porcelain jasper is my favorite along with the purple amethyst (I looooOOOOOOooooooooove purple)
great job!
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Post by krazydiamond on May 26, 2008 8:54:18 GMT -5
oh, yeh! love that amethyst diamond!
KD
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Post by stoner on May 26, 2008 11:29:29 GMT -5
Cutting calibrated cabs is a good way of finding out just how good one really is at cabbing! Nice work, I really like the plume.
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Post by sandsman1 on May 26, 2008 11:33:44 GMT -5
all very nice my fav are the first couple thunder egg cabs very cool
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cutter
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by cutter on May 26, 2008 17:05:02 GMT -5
Actually, the first three pics are the same stone. It was a slab of Thunder egg over 1/2" thick that I just started grinding on. A pocket rock to throw at the cyotes. Lucky dogs
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Post by Tonyterner on May 28, 2008 10:39:20 GMT -5
I've never tried a calibrated cab, I don't want to find out how poor my skills are. lol I like the exotica jasper the best but that amethyst is excellent too. Nice work.
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