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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 26, 2015 9:20:15 GMT -5
Rolling mine but have made some errors .... Chipped up larger pieces when slurry over thickened with borax .... frosted larger pieces when volume got too low .... Looking better now, frosting gone, chips nearly ground out, some ready to move on. Funny I should be having issues with the rough grind. Most have issues with finishing steps, no? I would agree that most issues arise after stage one on obsidian. Hopefully yours go smoothly now though. Just an FYI I do not ever use any additive or thickeners in my rough grind. Obsidian is soft so it creates its own slurry pretty quick just from material removal in stage one. Chuck |
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Post by tkvancil on Mar 27, 2015 8:48:50 GMT -5
Rolling mine but have made some errors .... Chipped up larger pieces when slurry over thickened with borax .... frosted larger pieces when volume got too low .... Looking better now, frosting gone, chips nearly ground out, some ready to move on. Funny I should be having issues with the rough grind. Most have issues with finishing steps, no? I would agree that most issues arise after stage one on obsidian. Hopefully yours go smoothly now though. Just an FYI I do not ever use any additive or thickeners in my rough grind. Obsidian is soft so it creates its own slurry pretty quick just from material removal in stage one. Chuck Thanks for the FYI. The borax was an attempt to stop gas off which was actually coming from the broken glass being used as filler. Borax worked to stop gas off but when I opened the barrel to a chipped up mess I remembered this happening once before. Fool me once , fool me twice, and get a reminder ... Shouldn't happen again.  |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 7, 2015 8:31:04 GMT -5
This thread died off. Is everyone ready to send in their contest obsidian? any side bets? lol
Chuck
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Post by tkvancil on Aug 7, 2015 8:49:12 GMT -5
Sent mine in this week, Tuesday. Have high hopes for them as I thought they came out well.
Good luck to all RTH'ers who entered !
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 7, 2015 9:01:51 GMT -5
Mine are on their way too. They look good, but there's some good competition by the looks of it. No more jabs at Chuck, I learned my lesson there!
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 7, 2015 9:08:18 GMT -5
Mine are on their way too. They look good, but there's some good competition by the looks of it. No more jabs at Chuck, I learned my lesson there! There are at least four of us (RTH) entered so a clean sweep is possible. order yet to be determined. Chuck |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 7, 2015 11:31:17 GMT -5
Jugglerguy Toad tkvancilDid you guys take a good photo of your top five rocks before sending them in? I was thinking we could have done an anonymous voting poll on here to see how that comes out if you guys have photos. Any thoughts? Chuck
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 7, 2015 12:13:04 GMT -5
I should add that the only thing harder then tumbling obsidian is photographing tumbled obsidian.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 7, 2015 12:38:36 GMT -5
I was so excited about picking out my best rocks, I completely forgot to take pictures until the way home from the post office. My rejects look pretty good though. I could take a picture of five of those if you want.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 7, 2015 12:58:59 GMT -5
I was so excited about picking out my best rocks, I completely forgot to take pictures until the way home from the post office. My rejects look pretty good though. I could take a picture of five of those if you want. I cant believe you sent your best five knowing you wont get them back and did not take photos. That would bum me out. I will leave it up to you guys on the poll idea. I just thought it would add to the fun since we already did the work. Chuck |
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 7, 2015 18:37:07 GMT -5
I'm an idiot.
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Post by tkvancil on Aug 9, 2015 13:58:40 GMT -5
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Post by tkvancil on Aug 9, 2015 14:09:30 GMT -5
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Post by meviva on Aug 10, 2015 0:42:24 GMT -5
I just put a small batch into final polish. Hopefully they will be done by Friday so I can get them into the mail. I haven't had a chance to work on my rocks lately and it seemed like I had soooo much time until August to get them done. Always the last minute for me.  Good luck to all, Andrea |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 10, 2015 6:04:46 GMT -5
I just put a small batch into final polish. Hopefully they will be done by Friday so I can get them into the mail. I haven't had a chance to work on my rocks lately and it seemed like I had soooo much time until August to get them done. Always the last minute for me. Good luck to all, Andrea Just take a good photo before you send them in Friday. We can do the poll the week after. Chuck |
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Post by meviva on Aug 10, 2015 11:53:08 GMT -5
I will be sure to take a pic.
Andrea
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 10, 2015 16:51:50 GMT -5
I shipped mine today and when I was filling out the form it only made sense to list the value as $250 right?  Chuck |
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Post by broseph82 on Aug 11, 2015 7:07:40 GMT -5
Did you win chuck?, 'cause these are gorgeous!! |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Aug 11, 2015 7:10:47 GMT -5
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Post by meviva on Aug 15, 2015 12:08:44 GMT -5
Ok my obsidian is done. They are boxed up and ready to go. Now to get to the post office. Time is running out.
Andrea
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