fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 9, 2012 21:38:12 GMT -5
Sorry about the blurry picture. All the same rock but the one is heat treated. Mike  |
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Mattatya
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Post by Mattatya on Aug 9, 2012 21:42:34 GMT -5
Thats pretty cool looking. What method did you use to heat? I've read people heating up tigers eye to turn it red but don't know how they do it.
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fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 10, 2012 2:28:52 GMT -5
This was my second attempt at heat treating. Several years ago, I took several rocks that I found along the Columbia River while Kayaking. I sliced a few and put them in an old crock pot buried with a bunch of sand. Put everything in my kitchen oven and started bringing the heat up 100degrees at a time. As soon as the oven had reached temperature…I’d increase another 100 degrees. After I maxed out at 550 degrees I left it there for 1 hour. Turned the oven off and waited until they had cooled off.
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fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 10, 2012 2:31:50 GMT -5
The rock in the picture is just some quartz of sorts. A lot of this stuff is found along the columbia and rivers that dump into the columbia. A river rock.
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fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 10, 2012 2:34:48 GMT -5
Some of the other rocks I tried did not come out so good. Either real dark, or it removed the color from a sharp bright to a dull dark. This was the only one that I kept, the others I tossed.
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fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 10, 2012 13:45:26 GMT -5
I tried this with a small piece of amethist and it did nothing. I was told that I needed to keep it in for a longer time, I also was told that I needed higher tempature for amethist. Not sure i just wanted to see what would happen.
Mike
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2012 13:54:49 GMT -5
I would love to know what that rock is. I took the photo and shrunk it down so it was not so fuzzy and still could not tell. I have quartz and agate that look about the same. If you find out please let us know because I would like to try it. The change is awesome.
Jim
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fwfranklen (Mike)
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Post by fwfranklen (Mike) on Aug 10, 2012 15:07:18 GMT -5
I've asked Geologists about the rocks I get along the columbia river...they just say it is a form of quartz.
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Post by beefjello on Aug 11, 2012 13:51:29 GMT -5
Neat, I always wanted to try this.
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