Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 6, 2011 9:20:08 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Man, it was hotter that heck here yesterday so I sat on the deck and listened to the saw while I read a novel. Cut a bit more Texas wood. Here are a couple of pics.....Mel Small palm rounds. Sure wish I knew what kind of palm this was because the stems were quite tiny: Nice shrinkwood: Shrinkwood branch that got squashed by sediment before petrification:
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Post by Toad on Jun 6, 2011 9:30:21 GMT -5
Really like the middle shrinkwood. All of it is great stuff.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 6, 2011 9:41:21 GMT -5
i bid $5.00 on the shinkwood......... OH!!!!! oops this is not an auction. lmao
mary ann
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Post by gr on Jun 6, 2011 10:45:53 GMT -5
Ain't no duds in this bunch!! Love that shrinkwood
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Post by mohs on Jun 6, 2011 11:05:10 GMT -5
well you opened some pages of novel material ! really cool stuff
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jun 6, 2011 13:42:58 GMT -5
Gosh that shrinkwood is beautiful stuff! Is that the actual name of the tree it once was? Or, why is it called shrinkwood?
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turnedstone
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Post by turnedstone on Jun 6, 2011 15:06:00 GMT -5
Very nice Mel I had never heard of shrinkwood before so I looked it up and found this nice piece made from it. Heres a link if it works www.cabochon.ws/premium-cabochon/shrinkwood-1889 says its very rare. BTW Mel I have a friend that just opened a rock shop in Johnson city have you been to it yet I can get an Addy if you want it.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 6, 2011 16:12:49 GMT -5
Turnedstone: I'd love the addy of that rockshop as I go out that way every now and then and always like to check out new shops.
Donnie: Matt Dillon, one of our more famous Texas wood collectors, gave me that name for this type of wood. Apparently what happened is the wood partially decomposed and shrunk up forming cracks before it was agatized and then maybe the agatized wood busted up into hunks and was resealed again by silica like a brecciated jasper. The scientific papers call this process hexagonal fracturing as sometimes the brecciated segments have an almost geometric hexagonal shape. In the stuff I'm cutting the brecciated type or full agate replacements are much more common than the true hexagonal formation.....Mel
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jun 7, 2011 9:05:51 GMT -5
Thank you, Mel!
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Jun 7, 2011 21:05:58 GMT -5
Very nice slabs Mel!
Nate
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cdfcal
having dreams about rocks
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Post by cdfcal on Feb 21, 2013 9:02:29 GMT -5
Very interesting wood, thanks for sharing...
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Post by tandl on Feb 21, 2013 11:31:35 GMT -5
Very cool
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Post by Peruano on Feb 21, 2013 15:40:35 GMT -5
Maybe its because I just came in for lunch, but that shrinkwood sure looks like some of the hard chorizo or other coarsely ground sausages that I've encountered in life. Nice. Tom
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