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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 6, 2012 9:00:33 GMT -5
More cabs from Amber and I. As usual I did the first 3 wheels, she did the next 3 wheels and we split the polishing. The only difference between her cabs and my cabs at this point is who bought the material. Rhyolite Sapphire. I love doing tiny cabs but since I don't dop them Amber doesn't. I did this one all my self. Another sapphire Smithsonite (hemimorphite) Stinking water plume agate doublet. Large Tahoma, about 3" long. Probably the biggest cab I've ever done. Texas plume Turkish jade Unknown agate Unknown plume agate Notreallysureite Spiderweb varcasite, my fave of the bunch Victoria stone. This chunk was a wedding present from Firewalker. I had it done for months but didn't know how to shine it. Enter Holy Cow polish and bam its shiny. Had a little mishap while washing off the polish, I dropped it onto the tile floor in the kitchen. Fortunately I only chipped the bottom point. I did fix it after the photo was taken. Needless to say Amber wasn't happy although it is destined to hang around her neck.
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Nov 6, 2012 9:01:54 GMT -5
Very cool!
love the sapphire!
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Nov 6, 2012 11:20:19 GMT -5
All are amazing. That Turkish Jade is pretty neat, never seen that before.
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Post by Bejewelme on Nov 7, 2012 6:17:13 GMT -5
The Victoria Stone is beautiful, Dawn Blair is going to wrap it for Christmas, she does amazing work! The unknown agate and tahoma are really stunning in person!
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Post by gingerkid on Nov 7, 2012 6:33:44 GMT -5
Those are beautiful!! Amber, Dawn does beautiful work. She used to hang out with a few of us on the GemAddicts forum.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Nov 7, 2012 7:00:02 GMT -5
great set of cabs, I think I like that Spiderweb varcasite best though.
Chuck
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Post by gingerkid on Nov 7, 2012 7:16:45 GMT -5
Those tile floors are dangerous and deadly to cabs and materials, Amber and Tony. Guilty of having cracked and chipped a few on our tiled kitchen floor, too.
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Post by NatureNut on Nov 7, 2012 7:58:40 GMT -5
You are gonna be so happy with the result of that gorgeous stone and Dawn's incredible work! Love these. Jo
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Nov 7, 2012 11:36:30 GMT -5
Some very elegant shapes and beautiful cabs there, Tony!
Adrian
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 7, 2012 20:08:58 GMT -5
i agree with Adrian, very nice shapes and killer shine. good teamwoork, you guys!
KD
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Post by Rockoonz on Nov 7, 2012 20:35:17 GMT -5
I really like the unknown agate, it may be Paiute Agate from Oregon.
Lee
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hope
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Post by hope on Nov 7, 2012 21:15:08 GMT -5
Lot of nice stuff here. You guys have done another great team effort.
Hope
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Post by pporky on Nov 8, 2012 15:56:43 GMT -5
looks to me like you are teaming up really well nice group especially the doublet
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Post by Bikerrandy on Nov 8, 2012 21:05:42 GMT -5
The spiderweb varcasite is beautiful!! They're all beautiful but I like that one best too
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Post by christopherl1234 on Nov 8, 2012 21:45:44 GMT -5
My favorites are the Spiderweb Varicsite and the Victoria Stone!
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Post by Pat on Nov 8, 2012 23:46:45 GMT -5
Your teamwork has resulted in some beauties. I especially like the Stinking Water piece.
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Post by Minnesota Daniel on Nov 9, 2012 0:17:05 GMT -5
The Utah Spiderweb Variscite is really neat. (not so neat to spell though)
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Post by Woodyrock on Nov 9, 2012 1:35:04 GMT -5
Come on, post a photograph of the two of you cozyed up on that cab machine! Us, being married a long, have our own cab machines...side by side of course. Woody
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 9, 2012 7:22:07 GMT -5
Woody, Amber won't let me post a picture of her cabbing as she's usually is pretty messy. We actually have 3 cabbing machines but only enough room to have one set up in our house. If we can ever sell this place I'll have all 3 set up in the new house.
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Post by mohs on Nov 9, 2012 11:02:16 GMT -5
don't bogart that joint my friends pass that rhyolite over to me ;D
sorry couldn't resist with the recent thread talk polish stone ya know
really beauts ! but its the yellow in the rhyo that gets me high st.edmo
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