stillalive
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Post by stillalive on Dec 20, 2012 9:15:46 GMT -5
Don -you will be the first,waiting for the rain and winter to fade away so I can drain my clay garden/swamp,and get my workshop built!Sometime in the new year/spring,I can finally start cutting-yippee!
Thanks for sharing the Fairburns-truly something else,later,John.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 9:27:15 GMT -5
I am still a noob so what is in the Roger Clark books. With the way you yee haawed I am guessing Fairburn photos.  Jim |
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 20, 2012 10:09:19 GMT -5
Not only pictures, but history of the area where they're found, maps of collecting areas, and info on how they were formed. The best books ever written on the subject of Fairburn agates.
The USPS scores again. My newest book was processed through the sorting facility in Bell Gardens, California on the 12th of Dec., and seems to have fallen off the map. Opened a case with USPS yesterday. I sure hope they can track it down. I've been trying to find a copy for at least 2 years. It's not an easy book to find for sale, and expensive when you do find one.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 22, 2012 16:01:34 GMT -5
After well over 2 years of searching, I finally got a copy of Roger Clark's first book on Fairburn agates. These aren't easy critters to find for sale.  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 22, 2012 22:38:49 GMT -5
Not looking like much right now. It's in a 48 hour warm acid bath, and will look much better when finished.  |
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cherdarock
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Post by cherdarock on Dec 23, 2012 16:18:28 GMT -5
AH yes. Obsession. The fixation and facination that you can hear LAUGHING should you try to reason it out of your life... That obsession then says :nono: and you apologize to your obsession, and you wonder what you could have been THINKING! I too obsess! I get dizzy over JASPER! Not the red or brown banded stuff, no. Rainbows and Agatized, colors and patterns that are simply unlike any other you will find. Jasper that you cut open and find a fractured jigsaw with blue agate bonding it together. Paisley like red/orange/yellow swirls that would make hippies faint, random paint spatter, and unbelievable tangles that show just how incredible an artist God must be. Oh, were it possible, and I were given my teen ages back, I would have a warehouse. The workshop at one end, the rest a cavern of displays, two stories and ever growing, close by the desert. My obsession would rule my existance, and history would record me as "The man who apparently liked jasper. A LOT!" Feed your obsession. View the obsession! BUT! don't let it keep you from you know, eating, or other things that are deemed important, like the KIDS, the WIFE, GROOMING, etc. but heck yeah OBSESS! ;D Very nice display! As for the online bidding, let me guess: When you win, people know it before you tell them, when you lose, sometimes you berate the screen, and possibly people know it before you tell them....  I cannot bid. I am one who will "HAVE IT" far beyond what it might be worth, as I have no self control except when racing. Sort of. A TOAST! To: Our obsession, May it be just as obsessed with us. ;D |
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 23, 2012 16:36:55 GMT -5
Only once have I let my obsession get the best of me. I look at an item I like. I set in my mind the amount I'm willing to pay for that item. Then without making a bid I watch the item. If it doesn't go over the amount I've set, I put my top amount in 30 seconds before the bid ends. At 6 seconds I confirm my bid. Just early enough to make my bid count, but too late for someone to up my bid.
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cherdarock
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Post by cherdarock on Dec 24, 2012 4:34:45 GMT -5
NOW THAT is a cool trick! But that requires you to have to schedule the bid close dates/times etc. so that you can be "on site" yah?
I knew a person who was really into ebay as well as the "QBID" sites. Very vocal, very animated, often entertaining. He lost a few bids last second style. THAT was fun to watch. I wonder if he ever learned something like that? Bidding sometimes gets furious over "hot" items.
WELL! Don't know if I should try bidding fire agate, but mebbee I will peruse the action.
sideways to topic, "Shipping Wars" (basic cable reality program) they bid on transport of odd/unorthodox items, using the "last minnit" trick, only the cost for shipping, and it's low bid to win. Funny stuff.
good stuff this thread! luck to all your bids! ;D
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 24, 2012 9:30:58 GMT -5
No problem on the schedule. I'm retired. Over the last 3 days I've bid on and won 4 of the 5 Fairburns I was after.
Shipping wars doesn't interest me. I'd rather watch Storage Wars or American Pickers.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 24, 2012 15:24:57 GMT -5
Couple new ones the mailman just brought.   |
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 28, 2012 22:09:08 GMT -5
Couple new ones today.   |
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stillalive
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Post by stillalive on Dec 30, 2012 17:46:04 GMT -5
Hey Don-that first one looks like an agatized Ron Perlman,LoL ;D-hope you had a good Christmas-wishing you a great new year,John.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 30, 2012 18:00:52 GMT -5
Back at ya John. Hope you're finally settled back in your house, and will soon be cutting rocks.
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stillalive
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Post by stillalive on Dec 30, 2012 19:32:14 GMT -5
Thanks Don,it's all bubbling away,slowly but surely-unlike your amazing collection which moves forward leaps and bounds,something for us all to aspire to,I dream on  ,got a house full for the very first time,starting to feel real good,wish you great finds ;D,John. |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 3, 2013 12:22:11 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 3, 2013 12:25:06 GMT -5
A 15.68 oz. biggun. This one goes in the acid today for cleaning. This is the "Before" pic. I'll post the after pic below it in a few days.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 11:25:49 GMT -5
tornados wont effect your home. All the agates will weigh it down and stabilize it from the wind! This one looks like it is a set of lips singing to us. "Hey Dooonnnn....... "  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 6, 2013 16:53:12 GMT -5
Couple new ones. 1/5/2013.   |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 11, 2013 11:06:13 GMT -5
Finally, a new Fairburn to post. Got this yesterday. 2 more coming today.  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 11, 2013 22:26:56 GMT -5
New arrivals today. 1/11/2013   Also got a box of 42 tumble polished Fairburns today. |
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I cannot bid. I am one who will "HAVE IT" far beyond what it might be worth, as I have no self control except when racing. Sort of. 
,got a house full for the very first time,starting to feel real good,wish you great finds ;D,John.
