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Post by stardiamond on Aug 8, 2014 23:17:23 GMT -5
I have many small boxes filled with "premium" slabettes where the material was poor quality, small scraps of good material that "someday" I could possibly make a cab from, marginally interesting material that I could cab, cabs in a partially finished state, cabs that need to be fixed or recut, but do I really want to spend the time fixing them.
I think I keep some of it to remind me of my buying mistakes. I even have a cigar box full of boulder opal matrix scraps. Yet it still here.
I think it's time for a purge. It will require a lot of sorting; absolute junk, unfinished cabs and slabettes that I will never work, and stuff with problems that I will actually consider working. The good news is that when I go through the sorting exercise I will find some interesting stuff and consolidate like material.
I don't think I'm alone.
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vugs
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Post by vugs on Aug 9, 2014 0:08:55 GMT -5
Guilty. I definitely am accumilating a bunch of pieces that i cut and didnt consider them keepers but i keep them anyways because i thought they might be cool tumbled. Of course, i'll probably never get around to tumbling most of them. And, behind the workshop is a ravine with a dry wash where we dump our scraps. I'm always telling my buddy we should go hound the stuff we threw away for tumble material. He doesnt like Moss and tosses alot of decent stuff. "I had a piece you might have liked but i tossed it, dont worry it wasnt that great". Occasionally there are missing rocks from the workshop after a cutting session and the conclusion is that they probably end up in the throw away bucket by accident. So, one day someone will find a few nice stones back there.
Maybe rockhounding is a form of hoarding and we all need help!
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Post by orrum on Aug 9, 2014 9:48:53 GMT -5
Get to tumbling it! I have bought saw scrap etc from members on here and kept the good cab stuff and tumbled the rest, including unfinished cabs and then put it in a Loto! Wow what beatiful finished tumbles!
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Post by drocknut on Aug 9, 2014 11:38:45 GMT -5
Vugs, my mother would agree with rockhounding being a form of hoarding and us all needing help...lol. We watched an episode of Hoarders when I was down there visiting and she made a comment about all my rocks. I have scraps and probably bunches of leaverite in my storage unit that I have no idea what to do with and I don't have a dry wash to dump them in.
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Post by mohs on Aug 9, 2014 11:58:21 GMT -5
What I do with cutoff and slabs I don't want is cut them into small pieces and throw them in my rock landscape yard. Lots of color in that brownish pea gravel. mostly
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Post by glennz01 on Aug 9, 2014 12:17:08 GMT -5
I'll take them
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2014 12:32:22 GMT -5
orrum nailed it. Get that tumbler working!!
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Post by vugs on Aug 10, 2014 14:54:03 GMT -5
Vugs, my mother would agree with rockhounding being a form of hoarding and us all needing help...lol. We watched an episode of Hoarders when I was down there visiting and she made a comment about all my rocks. I have scraps and probably bunches of leaverite in my storage unit that I have no idea what to do with and I don't have a dry wash to dump them in. haha.. the dry wash does come in handy. orrum and @shotgunner - i would like to get a bunch of tumbling done but i cant get off the flat lap.
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 10, 2014 15:22:07 GMT -5
Yep, I'm with you on that. I purged pretty well when I moved to Texas but sill have gobs of slabettes where I've always said, "someday" I'll get to them....Mel
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 10, 2014 15:27:09 GMT -5
I completed my first round of sorting. The small stuff was in wooden cigar boxes and the larger stuff was in cardboard boxes. I put like material small and any pieces that would fit in the cigar boxes and marked the contents on the outside of the box. It will be easier to find things now. The larger slabs and rough were searched but not sorted. I found pieces of varisite in some boxes and they are all consolidated and protected in a cigar box. I also found some small pieces of Laguna and a larger piece of luna. In this case I'm glad I kept everything.
I threw very little away, but I segregated out slabettes and unfinished cabs that I won't work into boxes. I've my pickup filled ready fro a dump run,,but I think I'll take a pictures of what I am tossing to see if anyone is interested here.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 11, 2014 8:57:14 GMT -5
So far I have two five gallon buckets of scrap.Going to sort it and maybe get my tumblers going....(Haven't used them yet) LOL Going to sort through my agate bucket and sell off them for other goodies.. Just traded off a huge amount of green jasper's to Nick for some Holley Blue agate...So I guess the ball is rolling...A bit at a time..LOL
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 11, 2014 9:06:08 GMT -5
I just dumped 2 five gallon buckets and milk crate full of scrap rock from our cabbing/tumbling waste at a gravel pit up north this weekend. The next day the owner of the pit stopped by to tell my a lady spent a good hour collecting in my little scrap pile,lol. She was telling him how some of them would make great pendants etc ...
I wonder if she knows that the rocks she found in this pit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are really from places like Africa, Mexico and all kinds of other crazy places.
Chuck
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 11, 2014 9:20:32 GMT -5
I just dumped 2 five gallon buckets and milk crate full of scrap rock from our cabbing/tumbling waste at a gravel pit up north this weekend. The next day the owner of the pit stopped by to tell my a lady spent a good hour collecting in my little scrap pile,lol. She was telling him how some of them would make great pendants etc ... I wonder if she knows that the rocks she found in this pit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are really from places like Africa, Mexico and all kinds of other crazy places. Chuck That's funny! I can just imagine her delight at finding your stones, though. I like to think that kids will always find stuff like that, but it's cool she did and will find a use for them.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 11, 2014 9:24:34 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I have to buy slabs. As such, I generally don't have much waste. But, my small trimmings go in the garden and the bigger stuff I save for people who tumble and might need some filler. I don't tumble and doubt I ever will. What I do end up with is preforms that I know I will never get to. I have gotten out of the habit of marking up entire slabs. I only ever use a few of the choicest cuts. Now, the little slabbette ends will be piling up. And, no, I just can't toss them. Just can't.
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Post by quartz on Aug 11, 2014 19:19:35 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on Aug 11, 2014 19:55:20 GMT -5
When our grandchildren were younger, I salted our garden with bits and pieces just before they came over. We were all delighted. Later, when their home was getting a bit too rocky for their mom, she told them they could keep what would fit in their pockets.
I have them each a bucket.
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