jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 14, 2014 18:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by fantastic5 on Dec 14, 2014 18:33:05 GMT -5
Those Rio's get such a depth to them, they look coated with thick epoxy. Super cool!
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Post by jamesp on Dec 14, 2014 19:09:07 GMT -5
Those Rio's get such a depth to them, they look coated with thick epoxy. Super cool! if you ever get a chance to go to Lake Falcon you will be ruined. |
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Post by fantastic5 on Dec 14, 2014 22:34:39 GMT -5
Got to collect with kap and munchie today and I think you have already ruined us all with the Withlacoochee! Here we were collecting buckets bull of great breccia and lace agate and all we could talk about is how soon it will be before the water is warm enough so we could go back for more coral. |
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Post by tkvancil on Dec 14, 2014 23:22:24 GMT -5
The Jamesp Rock Tumbling Works ... "we're not just corals"  Those are all very cool. Keep 'em coming. |
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Post by quartz on Dec 14, 2014 23:45:09 GMT -5
No best of show here, like 'em all, great polish on great pieces.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 4:05:05 GMT -5
Got to collect with kap and munchie today and I think you have already ruined us all with the Withlacoochee! Here we were collecting buckets bull of great breccia and lace agate and all we could talk about is how soon it will be before the water is warm enough so we could go back for more coral. Coral is addictive. Add that crew and it was a riot. It is probably good that warm weather and low water is required making it seasonal. Hope you guys scored well. |
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 4:30:18 GMT -5
The Jamesp Rock Tumbling Works ... "we're not just corals" Those are all very cool. Keep 'em coming. The Rios are pebbles tk. They have a skin on them that is sun bleached or altered by something. Once it is ground off the stuff comes alive. But it takes a lot of coarse grit. There is pockets of small pebbles and areas of larger cobbles. They were deposited by ancient rivers that were several hundred feet higher than the present day Rio Grand. Now the river beds are a pebble covered desert. Often deposited by size categories. So you can find a patch of 1 inch ave. pebbles and fill your buckets w/tumbles. From the hillsides facing the Rio. Those would include Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, maybe south Colorado. All trophy agate producing slopes. And mother nature ground away the junk and sent the hard stuff down stream. A broad range of variety. |
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Post by braders on Dec 15, 2014 8:53:34 GMT -5
Photos 5 and 6 are very similar to stuff I collect in my neck of the woods . Would it be called the same or something different ? Ill have to go rummage threw some house plants and buckets but im sure I have a few finished ones to snap a pic of  Still got a odd itch mr to try some of that corral your always teasing me with ! Cheers and as always love the post |
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 9:31:42 GMT -5
Photos 5 and 6 are very similar to stuff I collect in my neck of the woods . Would it be called the same or something different ? Ill have to go rummage threw some house plants and buckets but im sure I have a few finished ones to snap a pic of Still got a odd itch mr to try some of that corral your always teasing me with ! Cheers and as always love the post Those are moss and plume type agates. Probably typical for your Wyoming hills. The coral was formed down here in the sewer zone where us swampers roam. Where the waste of you high landers slim down to. The methane and muck, gurgling up, ready to swallow those that don't watch their step. only to hold you fast for the crocodillian's delight |
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Post by kk on Dec 15, 2014 9:45:30 GMT -5
Nice stuff you got there, will finally take the plunge and try your material in the next couple of weeks to try a snowflake design. Planing to use the white uncooked one you send. Hope it will be able to carry an edge.
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Post by orrum on Dec 15, 2014 9:51:41 GMT -5
Wicked, just plain wicked!
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 10:26:34 GMT -5
Nice stuff you got there, will finally take the plunge and try your material in the next couple of weeks to try a snowflake design. Planing to use the white uncooked one you send. Hope it will be able to carry an edge. I have tumbled long thin chips of the unheated stuff with big 3-5 ounce chunks in the barrel. Rarely do they break Kurt. The natives used to make long thin skinny spear points out of it. It should be a great choice for delicate work.  This is a Florida Hernando point. Modern replica using western moss, but delicate design is from coral country. They are often very thin.  |
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 10:32:27 GMT -5
Wicked, just plain wicked! Where are you orrum-don't tell-warm and sunny w/fine rocks in every direction. |
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 15, 2014 11:10:08 GMT -5
Beautiful tumbles and those points are just killer James!
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Post by jamesp on Dec 15, 2014 12:24:15 GMT -5
Beautiful tumbles and those points are just killer James! The crab fisherman at Lake George illegally arrowhead hunt on the shores of the lake during closed season which I am so happy that they do. They have found several Hernando points and sold them to private collectors for over $5000 so they say. It would not surprise me. |
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Post by orrum on Dec 16, 2014 9:27:05 GMT -5
Hey James we are headed to Palo Verde Ca. today to hound some Pastelite Agate! It's a agate chimney about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide at the base. They told us it is solid agate and just sticks up out of the desert. It's a pastel blue and peach and grey and white and clear etc. So eat ur heart out you old swamp rat!!! LOL
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Post by jamesp on Dec 16, 2014 12:41:28 GMT -5
Hey James we are headed to Palo Verde Ca. today to hound some Pastelite Agate! It's a agate chimney about 50 feet tall and 30 feet wide at the base. They told us it is solid agate and just sticks up out of the desert. It's a pastel blue and peach and grey and white and clear etc. So eat ur heart out you old swamp rat!!! LOL My Mother told me jealousy would get me no where. Still get jeolous thanks to orrum and his giant agate deposits/world travels/sunny weather. Eating heart out |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 16, 2014 13:50:38 GMT -5
Beautiful tumbles and those points are just killer James! The crab fisherman at Lake George illegally arrowhead hunt on the shores of the lake during closed season which I am so happy that they do. They have found several Hernando points and sold them to private collectors for over $5000 so they say. It would not surprise me. Some laws were made to be broken. |
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Post by jamesp on Dec 16, 2014 14:17:53 GMT -5
The crab fisherman at Lake George illegally arrowhead hunt on the shores of the lake during closed season which I am so happy that they do. They have found several Hernando points and sold them to private collectors for over $5000 so they say. It would not surprise me. Some laws were made to be broken. Me and the crabbers break them. Sorry. |
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