Post by Tweetiepy on Sept 28, 2008 20:13:32 GMT -5
The kids & I went to volunteer at our annual Gem & Mineral show this past Saturday for the club. This was planned ages ago and the kids were anxious to help and so was I. I was scheduled for a 2 hour cabbing demo on the Titan! - Kids were working the fish pond, rock critters & beading demos. They loved it - as did I, in spite of the flu that I caught Thursday night
I still managed to drive there and back before dark hit and worked through the pain and the fever. I'm still feeling the fever today and trying to take it easy. There was a Lortone 8" arbor with hard diamond wheels - that sold for $75 before I could open my mouth - he mentioned that he had more that he would check out and get back to me - I want it but would settle for just buying 2 more 6" sanding drums to go with the diamond belts that I already have (I don,t want to buy those again in 8") - I'll probably discuss this in another post... more on that
Now for those of you who read that long winded explanation, you patience will be rewarded. For those who skipped the intro, here are the pics.
I got a great deal on these - at least 1/3 off the price - from a club member
Bloodstone - sold as "green jasper"
Graveyard plume
5 small sweet bits of brrrrazilian agates (in purple no less - my favorite) - OOPS sorry they're bots - fever must have been talking!
The one with the red sticker is black jade - then to the right is rainbow obsidian, the bright blue and the one to it's left are labradorite (sweet!) and a slab of hematite (for $0.50)
some thunder eggs
Upper left - nice piece of idontknowite - I think the bottom right is the same thing, sodalite, goldstone (my favorite non-rock), a small piece of lace (I'm digging the pink) and bottom left is some lapis (which broke ) that bummed me out
upper left, some ocean agate (2 pieces) what looks like african lace only not as nice as the stuff Kim has - a sliver of tiger eye that looks like it would like to be a pendant and some rhodonite (or is it rhodochrosite?) - sorry! it's pink!
A nice slabbette of picture jasper
and I thought this was awesome, even though it's not a rocks, it looked cool - it's a slag glass slab - try saying that three times fast - (I know you want to try! )
I had $100 with me, we ate lunch, gave the kids some money to buy what they wanted and I came back with money left over - my son came back with a piece of black rutile quartz - there were some tiny pieces of gold rutile quartz and some that were already faceted that they sold by weight but I was looking for rough (but the black rutile is pretty cool!)
Thanks for looking and for reading
I still managed to drive there and back before dark hit and worked through the pain and the fever. I'm still feeling the fever today and trying to take it easy. There was a Lortone 8" arbor with hard diamond wheels - that sold for $75 before I could open my mouth - he mentioned that he had more that he would check out and get back to me - I want it but would settle for just buying 2 more 6" sanding drums to go with the diamond belts that I already have (I don,t want to buy those again in 8") - I'll probably discuss this in another post... more on that
Now for those of you who read that long winded explanation, you patience will be rewarded. For those who skipped the intro, here are the pics.
I got a great deal on these - at least 1/3 off the price - from a club member
Bloodstone - sold as "green jasper"
Graveyard plume
5 small sweet bits of brrrrazilian agates (in purple no less - my favorite) - OOPS sorry they're bots - fever must have been talking!
The one with the red sticker is black jade - then to the right is rainbow obsidian, the bright blue and the one to it's left are labradorite (sweet!) and a slab of hematite (for $0.50)
some thunder eggs
Upper left - nice piece of idontknowite - I think the bottom right is the same thing, sodalite, goldstone (my favorite non-rock), a small piece of lace (I'm digging the pink) and bottom left is some lapis (which broke ) that bummed me out
upper left, some ocean agate (2 pieces) what looks like african lace only not as nice as the stuff Kim has - a sliver of tiger eye that looks like it would like to be a pendant and some rhodonite (or is it rhodochrosite?) - sorry! it's pink!
A nice slabbette of picture jasper
and I thought this was awesome, even though it's not a rocks, it looked cool - it's a slag glass slab - try saying that three times fast - (I know you want to try! )
I had $100 with me, we ate lunch, gave the kids some money to buy what they wanted and I came back with money left over - my son came back with a piece of black rutile quartz - there were some tiny pieces of gold rutile quartz and some that were already faceted that they sold by weight but I was looking for rough (but the black rutile is pretty cool!)
Thanks for looking and for reading