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Post by helens on Mar 5, 2013 13:15:06 GMT -5
James, you come up with the darndest ideas!!
I have no idea what you said you did... but your stacks are really interesting looking, and I see no grout. WTF!
Let me get this straight... you stuck rock pebbles into a mold form, then poured ordinary grout in between the rocks to hold them together.
When it dried, you put them in a saw vice... and slabbed. So how did you cut 30 slabs at once?! Or did you mean you turned the saw on, and it made 30 different cuts by itself? (I don't own a saw, so not sure how one even works).
The side shot of the slabs look like whole rocks! The flickr link look like terrazzo slices. What do the tops of the stacks you have in the first post look like??
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Post by jamesp on Mar 5, 2013 15:16:26 GMT -5
The saw cut 30 at a time for each 6" x 8" slab, Helen.And that is average,30 pebbles cut in one slab.The terrazo is a seperate project. So you could put 100 one inch marbles in concrete in a plastic bucket,let it set up,then saw the chunk up in slabs,and then break the slabs up and get the marble slabs.Like breaking the individual pieces of glass out of those terrazzo looking slabs...It just saves clamping each individual marble and sawing it
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Post by helens on Mar 5, 2013 16:32:05 GMT -5
Ohhh... I see now. You are saving time cutting smaller rocks (like 1-2" diameter) into little cab sized pieces!!! Gotcha! How ingenious!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 5, 2013 19:57:27 GMT -5
Yep
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 10:15:13 GMT -5
Ok Jim, you keep dodging my question so I am going put it right up front and see if I can get an answer.;D
What do you do with that much awesome stuff? There is no way you can work all of it unless you are superman or pretty good with magic. ;D ;D ;D
I have a lot of stuff laying around that I will never be able to work but you have tons and I have pounds. I am totally amazed by the quantity. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Mar 7, 2013 19:55:26 GMT -5
I guess saving it to tinker with when i retire Jim.I have never bought a rock.i just like to collect and mostly tumble.I do want to get into metal smithing incorporating the stones.Need to start looking for a market-that's the difficult part.Start doing some rock shows and festivals maybe.I may not have as much as you think.I really just stash it.Hoarder??probably
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2013 10:54:08 GMT -5
Good plan but now that I am retired I use the hounding for exercise. I have only bought stone to make rings with. I think all of us could be called hoarders more or less. lol Any of us that live in an area where there are rocks for the picking have piles of rocks. Living in the cold country is a problem when it comes to fractures though. I have piles of rocks that I never should have brought home. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2013 15:46:32 GMT -5
I think that fractures drives some crazy.And it probably should not.I have been breaking rocks or discarding then in the rough grind of tumbling.Mostly breaking them early and letting the tumble smooth the break.I like those little Rio pebbles cause they are often not fractured.I guess it never freezes there hardly.There are places in the Withlacoochee river i can find 6-12 inch cobbles of pet coral and they will not have a single fracture.But they are some what monocolor and repetitive. Hoarders is a good descrip for you and i cause we are being honest.Bet a lot of folks got divorce causing piles on this forum haha! There is huge rush in finding a great rock,or even better a vein.A rancher drove up on me in Yexas and asked what i was doing on the gravel road.He told me to get off the road and collect on his 300 acre tract-some of the highest hills on the Rio Grande,where the best agates are.And I racked up,and i can go back,and i never hd such fun.Never really got in a western agate honey hole like that.I was sun up to sun down for 2 weeks.Still ran out of time.I know you have a good time rock hunting-that's healthy as it gets too.
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Post by garock on Mar 8, 2013 18:50:17 GMT -5
Mr wampidy or Mr Jim !! You have piles of rocks like I do . . . It is called "Should-have-left-it-right-there" ! I just can't help myself ! !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 11:39:01 GMT -5
hahaha how true. I'll bet my pile of useless rocks is bigger than your pile of useless rocks. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Mar 12, 2013 12:09:10 GMT -5
I bet i would be amazed at your rocks more than mine.I see these all the time,you got 'foreign' rocks Jim!
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Post by helens on Mar 14, 2013 1:27:35 GMT -5
Jim's got GORGEOUS rocks!!! He's in a part of Wyoming where the rocks are PINK... and in all different lovely shades of pink!!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 14, 2013 8:37:09 GMT -5
We traded coral for Wyomingites Helen.Killer nephrite.He gets to go hound at high altitude a few miles away anytime he pleases.Spoiled rotten.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 19:08:54 GMT -5
Hey, I happen to like being spoiled. lol
I have coral but nothing like Jim's coral. I have one piece that I need to get finished because it is going to be awesome.
I have some new pink for you Helen. I will send it in the box. Jim
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