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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 15:01:50 GMT -5
OK boys and girls. I don't make slabs, but did use a slab saw to make these cubes. Sorry for the overexposed images. I think some of these stones are flourescing under sunlight. Left to right: left bottom, a sweet creamy peach colored jasper, top left stalactite from private cave, just under that is mariposite/lustwenite (very overexposed real color is bright green), next then the darker cube is tremolite, the little hand ground sphere is the lustwenite I got from Juzwuz in the traveling rock box, the last two cubes on the right are the pyrite/qyartz stuff that just landed from Tim., nxt from the left is: far left barely showing thru is an olive drab marble I found while releiving myself off the side of the road, then drak greeen in back more trmolite, next is the blueish jaspery material sent by Tim, then a fantastic example of Nevada wonderstone. closeup of Tim's blue jaspery stuff could let you go without giving you a better view of the wonderstone. This is the hardest stone I have ever cut. Harder than Nephrite, Jadeite and Blue G. 20 minutes per slice on the 24". I wanted to cut the feldspar/garnet stuff but ran out of time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 15:50:31 GMT -5
What kind of saws are you using to cut so much material so quickly? Chop Saw, Gravity Feed?? My older HP saws would take 30-40 minutes a cut for a 4" cube. I am jealous.
That Wonderstone is neat, can't wait to see it finished.
Tim
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Post by deb193redux on Oct 24, 2012 16:05:48 GMT -5
5min/inch sounds about right
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Post by Pat on Oct 24, 2012 16:19:26 GMT -5
What are you going to do with all those blocks?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 18:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by beefjello on Oct 24, 2012 19:45:37 GMT -5
That Wonderstone's gonna make a kickass sphere!
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Post by Thunder69 on Oct 24, 2012 20:02:12 GMT -5
Hey Guys , Have you ever taken a whole brazillian agate and done a sphere....Or would it have to be cubed first....John
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 20:23:48 GMT -5
What kind of saws are you using to cut so much material so quickly? Chop Saw, Gravity Feed?? My older HP saws would take 30-40 minutes a cut for a 4" cube. I am jealous. That Wonderstone is neat, can't wait to see it finished. Tim Thanks to every body for their comments. I too cannot wait to see the Wonderstone finished. A very bright and busy piece of rock for sure. tim; I was both using a 24" hydraulic feed and a 16" 'brick saw' that is converted to oil and hand fed. Actually the large slab saw cross cut through the wonderstone 6" tall and 9 inches long in about 15 minutes X2. Had both working at times. Further, I cheated a little too! I did not cut the stalactite, it was presawn and simply a gift th at still needs more cutting. The marble & peachy cube needed only three cuts each. Tremolite, mariposite and of course the pyrite from you are relatively soft and quickly cut by hand. The hard blue piece from you took a bit of work. But that wonderstone is super tough. It took over half an hour to make the final four cuts on the brick saw. Over 90 minutes total cutting time for one 4" cube. I have enough to make one more 2.3-4" cube. Will see how this one goes. May make the second as a gift to an old friend. Thunder69; Great question! I have a pretty large brazilian. I am afraid I will just get one layer of the onion if I just turn it into a sphere. I am not finished thinking about it (Tim says I need beer ) but I may slice it in haLF across the smaller equator of the ellipse, then cube and sphere the two halves. Thus guaranteeing some contrast on the surface. Plus is there is a crystal hollow, I can incorporate it in two spheres. do brazilian agates ever have a crystal hollow? If anyone else would like to chime in on any of this, please do so.
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Post by jspencer on Oct 25, 2012 0:13:26 GMT -5
I have found a couple with hollows of quartz crystals and even one that had yellow mud in the center of it surrounded by quartz.
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