jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 16, 2013 21:29:16 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Jan 16, 2013 21:38:00 GMT -5
That last cab is great!
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 16, 2013 21:42:40 GMT -5
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 16, 2013 21:45:59 GMT -5
To cool.I like this process.That holds a bunch of rock.The polyps are amazing.The knapping and that cab are also amazing.
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 16, 2013 21:52:20 GMT -5
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 16, 2013 21:53:54 GMT -5
Dang it man
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Post by Pat on Jan 16, 2013 21:55:06 GMT -5
From ho-hum to wow! I've only cooked mookaite, but will have to gather up the other ho-hum stuff I have and fire her up that is --- turn on the toaster oven. Good looking cabs, too; I especially like the last group.
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Post by helens on Jan 16, 2013 22:24:53 GMT -5
WHOA!!! Your cabs are STUNNING!!!! Your silverwork is amazing too!!
Thanks for posting your pix, that's pretty interesting looking. Now I'm dying to wreck my other whole specimens! I think I cooked a lot hotter than either of you... um... Some of my coral edges (the white 'skin' part) got little black scorch marks, and my corals look a lot like your 2nd pix. That's probably why my colors looked 'nuclear' to James, tho you got pretty dark oranges and blues too. I think mine should have come out like your 2nd pix.
I think the sand bed is a great idea for keeping even temps... I just have no sand here, so I couldn't try that, so I'll have to acquire some sand from somewhere first.
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 16, 2013 22:47:35 GMT -5
go to Walmart and buy a 25 or 50lb bag of play sand, they sell it there for the little kiddy sand boxes and things
alot of the colors depends on what type of coral and where it came from. Not all coral will change colors
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 18, 2013 13:51:48 GMT -5
Again,those cabs are fine.And you knapp to the cab instead of cutting out of a slab.I have had trouble explaining that sometimes,cause the color changes are often in the skin of the head and it's tricky to slab and hit the sweet spot.I chip the skin off and tumble it, way simpler than that spalling to a cab but i get the color section.My saw sits dormant,but i wear the hammers out.I am glad you are posting.I want to learn more cause this is just my style of collecting,cutting and it is an artifact material which i have a reverence for.So many years i artifact hunted and tripped over veins of flint,chert,quartz that ancient man used-chips every where.I collect the chips.I tumble more ancient chipped chips(most cooked) than anything else in my tumblers until i started cooking myself.Warner Robbins,Macon,Augusta,Girard,Columbus,Flint River,Valdosta,Fort Valley,Summerville,Cartersville,Atlanta ,Ocala,Plant City,Green Key etc etc etc.I found thier flint/chert all those places and a lot more.
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 18, 2013 21:12:23 GMT -5
Yall ought to be ashamed of yourselves.Yall made me go out and buy a turkey roaster today and I aint cookin' no turkey!Throwing a bunch of different rocks in it and turning it on at midnight.Gonna let er rip and see what happens! ;D
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 18, 2013 21:35:14 GMT -5
take the pan out and your corners and the sides will be the hottest..I had a guy who bought coral from me a few years ago email me and showed me some pics of some he cooked this week, he blew up a few good pieces in the turkey roaster, his roaster went to 500 and he held it for 2 days .. once you ramp up to the highest hold for awhile and ramp down to cool down
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jan 18, 2013 21:41:59 GMT -5
I looked at bohunters youtube video on cooking rock in the roaster .I dont have much coral in it,some leftover from what I got from you.Majority are slabs.This is a test run to see how it does on a lot of different material.Something to look forward to.  snuffy |
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 18, 2013 22:18:31 GMT -5
I'm putting this one with my favorites.Want to try this with flint,jasper and or other rocks.Thanks
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Post by snuffy on Jan 18, 2013 22:28:20 GMT -5
I took pics of everything before I loaded it up to see if there is any difference.One good thing,always got a roaster if it doesnt work out! ;D
snuffy
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jan 18, 2013 22:32:51 GMT -5
am trying to talk bohunter/steve to get back into knapping...but his buddy Joey Martin has gotten him into drag racing now and that all he spends his time doing...hope the roaster works because charcoal is pricing itself out
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 19, 2013 6:51:40 GMT -5
My counter top oven is about 18 x 18 x 14 tall.It holds two pans 11 x 11 x 4 tall.Each pan holds bout 12 pounds sand and 12 pounds rock.So 25 pounds per cook.
It is a convection oven.It has always cooked roasts evenly with all that air circulation.And it has an important feature-insulation.jc,you said to dry the coral like 24 hours at 200.I take this oven up to 200 and the light goes off meaning it hit 200.Then i turn it off.It takes hours for that thing to cool down and it sweats away from moisture leaving rocks.
When i turn it off at 600 after 4-6 hours,i can not touch those pans for almost 2 days!I have to open the door after about 8 hours a little and let some heat out slowly,then open a little more,then more,etc.Just saying,it cools super slow.And if i open it all the way when it is hot i hear ping ting-coral cracking on top of the sand that is cooling too fast.And i always leave loose chips up there on top out of the sand so that i can hear that noise if i opened too soon.
I learned to put coral down about 2 inches under the sand and then do dry oak fire on top all ina fire pit burried at ground level.I got it too hot or too hot too fast more than 1/2 time so i went to electric and never missed again.You use the charcoal and it is the same each time i guess.I think cooking whole heads is real tricky.I did a few about 4 inches round.I need to saw one of them to see what it did.
It will be going down in the teens this week so i will get several loads ready to heat the house with-right in the kitchen is where i cook.Summer will move out side.
Wish i had a modern wood heater w/the heat controller.Maybe a sand box on top and feed wood to heat,with thermostat heat control(opens and closes air to fire).
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