Post by Jasper-hound on Aug 12, 2010 16:09:36 GMT -5
I decided to photograph the latest creations. They were harvested this summer from my ongoing 12 pound agate rotary drum, and when I had (barely) enough, put through the tumble vibe cycles for a couple weeks. I'm finally saying good enough. In addition, I included several dozen preformed cabochons and beads.
Tumbled baroques, including much Oregon carnelian
A group of jaspers collected from San Simeon beaches, California.
This is a photograph of some of the larger "therapy stones" included in the run.
This is a nice piece of brecciated Oregon beach jasper.
More Oregon beach jasper. Nice and swirly.
A view of some of the cabs and beads that were preformed before joining the Ultravibe load.
In this view, Condor, Imperial, Ocean jasper, etc.
Cabs turn out nice from the Ultravibe.
More cabs and preformed beads. Where the beads are drilled, I will install a large ring of sterling silver, soldered, to serve as a bail.
A nice piece of Oregon carnelian. How rewarding it is finally to finish a stone, isn't it?
A group of Coyamito pieces that was with the load. I am including this shot for Mr. Nodule himself, Lowell.
My Large Diamond Pacific tumbler has two 12-pound drums, one of which I keep running continuously with agates and jaspers, harvesting material when suitable. I charge it with 60/90 or coarser about every two weeks. The other drum keeps obsidians coming, but if you want to see those, you will have to bring up my "obsidian god" post from last month.
I also have a small tumbler on the final steps with some moonstone right now. I hope to be able to post those photos soon.
For those of you who have yet to include preforms with your tumble-vibe, I suggest doing so. The cabs and beads are smaller pieces, helping with the vibe's tendency to prefer various sizes in a batch. And some of those larger therapy stones were very large, yet none of the cabs got broken. Surprising.
Do you have a spot in your backyard that looks like this?
Also, here is a piece of jewelry I finished this week.
As a newbie on the board, there has been a large learning curve for me to post these photos. I hope you have enjoyed the show. For those of you who read my other "dang it" post, what finally worked for me was ditching photobucket (insert apt swear words here) and going with flckr instead. I did have to tinker with the codes on flckr. It's all weird stuff to me, not intuitive at all. Thank you all for your patience. Maybe I will post a photo again some day.
Craig
Tumbled baroques, including much Oregon carnelian
A group of jaspers collected from San Simeon beaches, California.
This is a photograph of some of the larger "therapy stones" included in the run.
This is a nice piece of brecciated Oregon beach jasper.
More Oregon beach jasper. Nice and swirly.
A view of some of the cabs and beads that were preformed before joining the Ultravibe load.
In this view, Condor, Imperial, Ocean jasper, etc.
Cabs turn out nice from the Ultravibe.
More cabs and preformed beads. Where the beads are drilled, I will install a large ring of sterling silver, soldered, to serve as a bail.
A nice piece of Oregon carnelian. How rewarding it is finally to finish a stone, isn't it?
A group of Coyamito pieces that was with the load. I am including this shot for Mr. Nodule himself, Lowell.
My Large Diamond Pacific tumbler has two 12-pound drums, one of which I keep running continuously with agates and jaspers, harvesting material when suitable. I charge it with 60/90 or coarser about every two weeks. The other drum keeps obsidians coming, but if you want to see those, you will have to bring up my "obsidian god" post from last month.
I also have a small tumbler on the final steps with some moonstone right now. I hope to be able to post those photos soon.
For those of you who have yet to include preforms with your tumble-vibe, I suggest doing so. The cabs and beads are smaller pieces, helping with the vibe's tendency to prefer various sizes in a batch. And some of those larger therapy stones were very large, yet none of the cabs got broken. Surprising.
Do you have a spot in your backyard that looks like this?
Also, here is a piece of jewelry I finished this week.
As a newbie on the board, there has been a large learning curve for me to post these photos. I hope you have enjoyed the show. For those of you who read my other "dang it" post, what finally worked for me was ditching photobucket (insert apt swear words here) and going with flckr instead. I did have to tinker with the codes on flckr. It's all weird stuff to me, not intuitive at all. Thank you all for your patience. Maybe I will post a photo again some day.
Craig
Jo
