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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 13, 2014 7:38:27 GMT -5
I had an ETSY customer that kept hounding me for a bunch of pudding stone slabs. I tend to hold onto those for my personal use but after exchanging a few messages with the buyer I found out he was trying to have a custom urn built using local Michigan stones. It turns out he only lived 20 minutes away so he came over this weekend and picked out about a dozen nice slabs. I had assumed this was a project he was doing for someone that was already deceased but it turns out he is just planning ahead (hopefully way ahead) for his own use. He sent me this link to the company that he is using to have it built www.parkstonecustomurns.com/Kind of neat I guess. So I guess your last rock purchase could be an expensive one at $1,600.  Chuck |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 13, 2014 8:45:17 GMT -5
Wow...cool looking.....Yuppers,that is thinking ahead!!!
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Post by orrum on Oct 13, 2014 8:49:16 GMT -5
Yep way cool and a little "off center thinking" but hey its what floats your boat!
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whatamidoing
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Post by whatamidoing on Oct 13, 2014 12:06:44 GMT -5
Very interesting. Great idea for a rock lover who knows they want to be cremated when the time comes. Thanks for sharing! --Kathy
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 13, 2014 12:23:13 GMT -5
That is very special. Chuck, I think I would be honored to be a part of that project. Very cool.
When I was blowing glass, there was thing getting pretty popular where a loved one would have a small bit of ashes incorporated into a glass boro bead. I thought that was cool, too. This is coming from someone who has her parents ashes.
On a lighter note.... I told my kids that I wanted my ashes divided into 3 piles- one for each of them, so I could sit on the mantle and continue to nag them. LOL! JK. I do want to be cremated, though.
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Oct 13, 2014 12:57:47 GMT -5
Neat idea I guess. But the upgrade option of having it electrified with smoke pellets for the chimney kinda is creeping me out.
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Post by Rockoonz on Oct 13, 2014 22:11:07 GMT -5
So you could say they Urn their money
They're making a killing off the idea
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spiritstone
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Post by spiritstone on Oct 14, 2014 11:32:48 GMT -5
Another alternative? Have yourself made into a diamond?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 14, 2014 13:14:02 GMT -5
Lee, I'm a junior high math teacher and therefore a fan of corny jokes. Thanks!
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Post by snowmom on Oct 21, 2014 6:10:29 GMT -5
Chuck will your customer be likely to bring his puddingstone creation to show you when it is finished? I'd love to see a picture of that!
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 21, 2014 6:23:38 GMT -5
Chuck will your customer be likely to bring his puddingstone creation to show you when it is finished? I'd love to see a picture of that! I did ask him to send pictures if he remembers. I have also been approached by someone looking to have a headstone made from pudding stone and thought that was a really cool idea but that one was out of my league. Chuck |
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Post by snowmom on Oct 21, 2014 15:38:21 GMT -5
hmm maybe a puddingstone boulder or slab with an engraved brass/bronze plaque? I kind of like that idea.
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Post by bobby1 on Oct 23, 2014 9:24:19 GMT -5
An interesting fact from their website "one pound of body weight equals one cubic inch of ashes". I'd always wondered what size of package would be required for my ashes. Lets see one pound times 24....OH never mind.
Bob
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