elementary
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since February 2006
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Post by elementary on Feb 15, 2013 17:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 15, 2013 18:19:29 GMT -5
Love those soft pastel colors.
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Post by helens on Feb 15, 2013 22:26:40 GMT -5
Those are the colors of botswana, but with really neat patterns! That top one looks like a fortification, very neat:)!!
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jason12x12
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by jason12x12 on Feb 16, 2013 0:05:48 GMT -5
love those soft lines in the pattern
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NDK
Cave Dweller
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Post by NDK on Feb 16, 2013 22:43:10 GMT -5
These look like confused lakers! LOL Cool pieces Lowell - thanks for showing them!
Nate
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 17, 2013 6:48:59 GMT -5
These look like confused lakers! LOL Nate ROFL!! I'm wondering why the dealer discards these beautiful pieces. ? They are beautiful!!
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elementary
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since February 2006
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Post by elementary on Feb 17, 2013 10:47:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the nice comments everyone.
Jan,
These are tossed by the dealer because the stones are either broken into odd shapes and can't be slabbed and cabbed, or are too small to cut and face polish. To mess with them wouldn't be financially viable. Unfortunately, he's found a new cabbing source (he ships to China) and they can work with much smaller stones, so his unused material is not as nice as it used to be. My friend the collector receives these to put into kid grab bags or to use as trading material. He doesn't do much lapidary work himself. He tends to purchase his display pieces. When he saw how I like to contour polish material he thought this stuff would intrigue me, and it has. About 5 days after he gave me my first bucket of material, I brought him and his wife four of the best pieces from the batch contour polished as a gift. Soon after I donated a 'rock box' which is essentially a $1.99 bead box from Michael's Hobby, with 17 polished specimens for their club's silent auction. I get a bucket almost every time I see them now, and I am humbled by their generosity.
Lowell
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 22, 2013 16:33:32 GMT -5
Imagine he and his wife were delighted when you gave them some of pieces you polished as gifts, Lowell.
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