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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 23, 2012 10:05:01 GMT -5
Hey Larry, I sure appreciate what you're doing for me, and I'm sure my friends will be too once they know the whole story about their house warming gift.
Don't worry about my mailman. He's used to heavy boxes. He even stood and waited one day to see a slab coming off of my big saw. Don't think it would take much to turn him into a rockhound.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Jun 23, 2012 10:27:42 GMT -5
I'll take them ceramic dohickies from you!
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 23, 2012 11:33:52 GMT -5
They're yours. Just PM your address to me.
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Post by LarryS on Jun 24, 2012 20:07:23 GMT -5
Well Don, we just returned from the very hot desert. You'll have plenty of variety to work with. Hope your blade is sharp, this stuff is insanely hard! More pics and trip report coming soon on "Location" section. Fresh Lavic brecciated jasper. ![](http://www.outbackteardrop.com/rock/311.jpg) LarryS
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Post by tntmom on Jun 24, 2012 20:39:53 GMT -5
Oh Gosh... just had to come back to this thread again to feel the happiness....
Don YOU ARE SO AWESOME!!!!!
.........and.............
Larry YOU ARE SO AWESOME!!!!!!
Smiling BIG time now, THANKS GUYS!!!
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 24, 2012 20:50:56 GMT -5
Can't wait to work some of that Lavic jasper Krystee. It's been at least 17 years since I last played with that material. If it's half as good as it looks in Larry's pic, it's gonna make some beautiful drawer knobs.
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Post by NatureNut on Jun 24, 2012 21:31:48 GMT -5
Oh my, you got some great material for these. Krystee's right, you guys rock. Jo
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 25, 2012 16:17:30 GMT -5
Hey Larry, here's part of what's coming back at ya. Teepee slabs and a few small polished Teepees. I'll add a few more slabs to the box before I send it. This pic was taken dry. The colors really pop when they're wet or polished. ![](http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac274/jakesrocks/101E0555.jpg)
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Post by LarryS on Jun 25, 2012 21:34:01 GMT -5
Oh geez Don, you don't have to do that! Just consider the Lavic material I'm sending you as a early Veterans Day gift. I have the highest respect for you guys and appreciate the dedication and service you did for us. But if you're throwing some of this TeePee in the box, I won't return it! You know you're spoiling me. I'm use to working with bottom of the barrel stuff from picked clean SoCal gem fields. Close to tumbling old broken beer bottle glass. Maybe I'll throw in a live Mohave desert lizard for Jake to play with. Sure keeps Goober entertained.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 25, 2012 21:41:55 GMT -5
LOL. send him a couple of the kangaroo rats. They'll entertain him for sure. Just consider this something to make the other So Cal guys drool.
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Post by bgast1 on Jun 26, 2012 1:36:38 GMT -5
I too am smiling big at this thread. Beautiful thing you are doing there Don and Larry.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 26, 2012 6:45:13 GMT -5
Bob, the beautiful part is, Larry doesn't even know the folks I'm making the knobs for.
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Post by LarryS on Jun 26, 2012 7:56:21 GMT -5
Oh yes I do. There're nuts like us who like rocks!
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 26, 2012 8:01:32 GMT -5
You'd like them if you ever met them Larry. They're good folks. Got to spend a week rockin with them in the Black Hills and grasslands a couple years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 8:50:00 GMT -5
Larry - If you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for tumble stuff just PM your address and I will fill up your barrel with stuff you have not seen before. I like to show people what kind of rock Wyoming has. Jim
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Post by LarryS on Jun 26, 2012 9:10:39 GMT -5
No Jim, I ran out of Lavic. I have mountains of other material. Time can stop and it will take me years to get caught up. I have fancy imported slabs I bought while in Quartzsite & Ebay that is sitting in a pile. I'm more excited by our local material we've been finding. The best feeling comes when a person asks Diane or family members where they got that stone. "Oh, we picked it up out in the local desert." Fun to watch the look on their face.
The one who has really benefited from all this is me. Don gave me an excuse to go hounding out in the desert, which doesn't take much to get me out there. It's like asking a drunk to go wine tasting to find you a good bottle of wine. Don goes way out of his way helping all us newbies, not to mention he's one hell of a nice guy. By hounding on this trip for the material he needed, I was able to stumble upon the rock picking site of the century. Never would have found it otherwise. The sun was at a perfect angle where the distant ground looked like it was covered in broken beer bottles, which is common for the area. But this was more than usual. It was tons of brecciated jasper glistening in the morning sunlight! A sign coming from the heavens!
It's only been a couple weeks where I was whining about how lousy Lavic jasper was, dulling my saw blades and staining everything. All full of pits and coated with lava. Some areas of the collecting site is like picking through a city dump for rocks. I'll never go back. Funny how things change! Goober liked it to because Lavic had a high population of lizards and he went nuts. So it was entertaining and beneficial for all.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 29, 2012 14:34:34 GMT -5
Yeee Haaaa !! A second box of Lavic just arrived from Larry. Gonna soak them for a while, then pick out the very best for this project. Thanks Larry. I really appreciate your help. Looks like the P.O. played football with the box, but everything was still inside. ![](http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac274/jakesrocks/101E0568.jpg)
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 29, 2012 15:29:04 GMT -5
Hey Larry, did Goober help you pack that box ? Jake has been sniffing at it ever since it arrived.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2012 16:06:56 GMT -5
Do you think you will be able to get all those buttons out of that little bit of rock? lol Jim
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Post by jakesrocks on Jun 29, 2012 16:12:17 GMT -5
That's the second box Larry sent. Got more than enough for 26 little 27 MM cabs.
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