jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 23, 2013 19:57:32 GMT -5
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grizman
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Post by grizman on Aug 23, 2013 20:12:02 GMT -5
Oooooh my, that is one very badly broken leg in picture (x-ray?) no. 13. In the 2nd picture it looks like it has healed OK, but the 3r picture showes just how bady it ended up being deformed.
OK, that's my take on the situation. I love the shades of the different colors. Very cool stuff.
P.S. Sure hope that is not YOUR leg!!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 23, 2013 20:13:34 GMT -5
What, no cheaters? Good to see you are still using your ratcher appropriately. I like the contrast between the light orange and dark brown. Fine stuff!
James, did you post the x-ray of your leg again?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 20:15:10 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 23, 2013 20:20:23 GMT -5
Scott, I'll send some nice stuff your way. When do you need to have it by?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 20:22:22 GMT -5
Within a week or so. Most are mailing next week. I'll need a week to cut Georges stuff for him (he asked nicely). My cut schedule is full so cannot offer any more cutting.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 23, 2013 20:27:37 GMT -5
No, won't need to cut. I'll send some slabs.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 23, 2013 22:28:48 GMT -5
Nice, nice mtl., really like the ones with good color contrast. Thanks for the show. Larry
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 23, 2013 22:42:56 GMT -5
I see coral pic #13 Mr Grizman. It looks exactly like a human leg. You have a great imagination but that is a great description. Do you see it Jean?
I will like to put some slabs in the pile. Is that what you need?
Well,Larry. I have been using a MAC computer and it is crazy fast and easy w/photos. I am learning it faster than i imagined. It fits my mechanical mind better. I tinkered all day w/it. I hope you are getting along w/the project. Thanks for looking in.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Aug 24, 2013 7:00:37 GMT -5
Really nice batch, James! My favorite is the one just above the saw! GORGEOUS!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 7:23:18 GMT -5
Good eye griz. Beautiful stuff but I have one question. How do you know it is a coral head? It could be coral feet couldn't it? Some of those pieces look more like feet than heads. Just my two cents worth. I very well could be wrong. Jim
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 24, 2013 8:03:12 GMT -5
Man James, that is some super solid and colorful material! The carnelian examples are really fine. If only the insides had great looking star polyp patterns like the Indonesian material, that stuff would be worth a freaking fortune. I was at a show in California once and they had heat treated Indonesian stuff they were selling the heck out of for like $15 per pound and slabs were priced per gram...Mel
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 24, 2013 8:41:13 GMT -5
I see coral pic #13 Mr Grizman. It looks exactly like a human leg. You have a great imagination but that is a great description. Do you see it Jean? I will like to put some slabs in the pile. Is that what you need? Well,Larry. I have been using a MAC computer and it is crazy fast and easy w/photos. I am learning it faster than i imagined. It fits my mechanical mind better. I tinkered all day w/it. I hope you are getting along w/the project. Thanks for looking in. I see it. Yes, great imagination, grizman! Glad to her your MAC is easy to learn. I understand they are great for photos and graphic art. The first computer I ever used was a Mac+. That was long time ago.
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Post by Pat on Aug 24, 2013 9:29:13 GMT -5
Agree the red specimen just above the saw is spectacular. I've got few in the cooker at the moment. Hope some flowers pop up.
Happy Mac user here. No troubles since I switched from pc.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 24, 2013 9:56:42 GMT -5
Maybe since I've spent cubic hrs. of my time and jamesp has spent near a like amount trying to help me [thanks so much for trying] to get pics. here, all w/o success, I'll look into the Mac idea. Seems many are happier with them.
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Post by Pat on Aug 24, 2013 10:03:41 GMT -5
quartz, the Mac is trouble-free. Jamesp uses Flickr. I'm on Photobucket and ready to switch to Flickr.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Aug 24, 2013 12:33:08 GMT -5
Based on jp's recommendation, I went w/flickr, got a pic. on it easy, can't get one to forum. My 'puter wizard friend is out rock hunting, and I'm just stuck. Frustrating because I used to be able to do this before "upgrade" to forum. I don't take or post many pics., but I have found w-xp to be a lot easier overall than w-7 for what I do, not that the OS has a lot to do w/present problem, but if entire experience is better w/Mac, I'm going to look hard at it. Thanks, Larry
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 24, 2013 16:58:22 GMT -5
Posting on the forum is not much different with either computer. But i do have a lot of reasons why i like the MAC. And friends have told me it would be the right system for me. This little MAC book pro 13 inch was $1200 and does some fast photo handling/manipulating. Which is about all i do w/it so far.And flicker is similar to Mac's photo handling system. I am really into flicker. But i am not a computer wiz. But i listen to good people and trust their opinions. Pat said what my friends said-trouble free. And i tell you, i go into Photobucket to see posted stuff and it is archaic to me-sorry to be critic but flicker is smoking site.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 24, 2013 17:10:57 GMT -5
The slab above the saw is the rind. That is the prettiest part. And i have a lot practice chipping it off with hammers to tumble. I can chip big chunks of and leave the center behind. That way i pack out the pretty part. But to saw it i got to bring the chunk home. I recently figured out (duhhh) to bring home small coral heads(and feet Jim) so they can be sawed to a cab size slab. That is efficient and safer. For the most part, the smaller the coral head the higher grade silicification it is and the more access the cabber has to the rind. And the color change from heat treatment is more colorful in small heads(and feet).
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 24, 2013 17:16:59 GMT -5
The 20 pound head in the saw had zero fractures. I have access to great agate areas but insist on the coral mainly because of it's lack of fractures and it is dead dense and hard.
And i get to be down in the lowest wettest spots where i belong.
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