Post by pporky on Oct 20, 2012 6:05:18 GMT -5
I went for a trip to the Queensland opal fields, I only visited the southern area but I got a good variety of material on my trip, after watching the pro's sawing and cabbing for a week I was keen to get home and try some of my new material.
My fossicking was a bit disappointing asin the hole that I dug for three days yeilded 0.
But I met some great people who shared some of what they have. One is a miner and he had a patch of material with no fire but nice patterns.
The other was a buyer, who was showing me the sawing, thats where the moneys made and he was cutting his best bucket for the year so was pretty happy, and he gave me a bucket of scraps and offcuts.
anyway here's the first cabs , there will be plenty more.As you will see there's a lot of other type of material than koroit. but maybe not as good
It got too hot for me up there and I could only dig for about 3 hours early in the mornings. This can exploded in my car on the trip home it was that hot.
My fossicking was a bit disappointing asin the hole that I dug for three days yeilded 0.
But I met some great people who shared some of what they have. One is a miner and he had a patch of material with no fire but nice patterns.
The other was a buyer, who was showing me the sawing, thats where the moneys made and he was cutting his best bucket for the year so was pretty happy, and he gave me a bucket of scraps and offcuts.
anyway here's the first cabs , there will be plenty more.As you will see there's a lot of other type of material than koroit. but maybe not as good
It got too hot for me up there and I could only dig for about 3 hours early in the mornings. This can exploded in my car on the trip home it was that hot.
