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Post by jamesp on Dec 16, 2014 23:45:43 GMT -5
Unheated white. This one tumbled with other large rocks, thinner than a penny Front view Another unheated white coral, this material favored by native man for spearheads Iron rich maybe Same piece, center view where sawed Heated from mustard yellow material true 'coral' color another coral color yellow hollow head Pat calls them flowers 39don gifted me a fine setting with a one of a kind color coral. I am in serious debt. 2nd mortgage...
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 17, 2014 0:33:07 GMT -5
Liking the 1st three and last one-(all are cool) but those are awesome!!!
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 1:08:24 GMT -5
Liking the 1st three and last one-(all are cool) but those are awesome!!! Sometimes it is a blinding white Michael. I imagine very pure. Some double hard stuff.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Dec 17, 2014 1:23:55 GMT -5
Unheated white. This one tumbled with other large rocks, thinner than a penny Potato chip coral. So varied, you never get tired of them. Keep 'em coming, James.
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Post by spiritstone on Dec 17, 2014 6:04:06 GMT -5
So what type of teeth whitener are you using? They look great. Nice pendant done by 39don. He does some splendid work on his cabs, seen them in hand.
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Post by snowmom on Dec 17, 2014 7:10:03 GMT -5
endlessly fascinating stuff.
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2014 7:44:55 GMT -5
Love them all but that one with the white polyp patterns rules...Mel
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 8:02:10 GMT -5
So what type of teeth whitener are you using? They look great. Nice pendant done by 39don. He does some splendid work on his cabs, seen them in hand. Don is a serious craftsmen spirit. The cab has some wild curves and dome tricks. Setting is superb. We could consider a set of dentures out of the white coral....
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 8:07:23 GMT -5
Jean snowmom Mel, photos will stop when the last color and pattern is found
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Post by bsky4463 on Dec 17, 2014 8:17:28 GMT -5
Jean snowmom Mel, photos will stop when the last color and pattern is found Say it isn't so..........you process so much coral, that IS possible. The macros are awesome, such detail. After the beautiful setting, My fav is the potato chip cheers
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 8:40:32 GMT -5
Jean snowmom Mel, photos will stop when the last color and pattern is found Say it isn't so..........you process so much coral, that IS possible. The macros are awesome, such detail. After the beautiful setting, My fav is the potato chip cheers Instead of percussion flaking with a hammer, curved chips were created by shooting a chunk of coral with a 30.06. Ten pound chunk was placed in a heavy plastic 55 gallon drum half, black spot marked as target impact. Boom!! Potato chips galore with a simple pull of the trigger finger.
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Post by bsky4463 on Dec 17, 2014 8:44:21 GMT -5
James that is freaking awesome. High caliber cabbing. (Next time roll the video tape) Cheers
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Post by fantastic5 on Dec 17, 2014 9:06:47 GMT -5
Say it isn't so..........you process so much coral, that IS possible. The macros are awesome, such detail. After the beautiful setting, My fav is the potato chip cheers Instead of percussion flaking with a hammer, curved chips were created by shooting a chunk of coral with a 30.06. Ten pound chunk was placed in a heavy plastic 55 gallon drum half, black spot marked as target impact. Boom!! Potato chips galore with a simple pull of the trigger finger. The older i get the more i appreciate the testosterone way of doing things! Gotta love the thought patterns that lead to shooting coral! Can. Imagine ever thinking....Lets shoot this to see what happens....
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Post by orrum on Dec 17, 2014 9:26:31 GMT -5
Hey James that's a great silver set coral piece! U r n DEBT!###
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 9:59:29 GMT -5
fantastic5, bsky4463Jim @wampidy kinda jumped me about doing that a couple of years ago. He complains about the freeze fractures so common around his hi altitude collecting spots of Greybull, Wyoming. And here is jamesp smashing perfect rocks to pieces with a rifle. I wonder if Jim remembers that. It tickled me, and I knew I was going to tumble the weird shaped pieces. The real flint knappers use soft copper hammers to reduce fracture propagation when doing their thing. so a copper bullet, just moving a bit faster than a hammer In the this bullet impact situation, a modified 'Hertzian cone' was produced. Instead of being a perfect cone, it was more of an egg shaped fracture with chips having wild curved shapes: Meteor impact structure Need to try that again, only did it once. Hertzian cones are often artifacts from native man. Found in areas where native man was processing flint/obsidian. Not much of a way such a cone would exist unless some one/thing delivered a heavy high speed impact.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 17, 2014 17:51:07 GMT -5
Some 15-30 pound hertzian cones of glass that i picked up at the glass recycler. The impact was on top. They are from a large glass furnace. At Owens- Corning fiberglass insulation plant. A pool about the size of a tennis court fills up with waste glass from the process above. Once it is about 2 feet deep they break it out and send it to the glass recyclers.
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Post by snowmom on Dec 19, 2014 18:05:52 GMT -5
whoa, that's way cool!
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Post by Pat on Dec 20, 2014 0:46:23 GMT -5
Never tire of your coral. Potato chips and flowers are the best.
I gotta say that I have never thought to shoot a rock to see what would happen!
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Post by jamesp on Dec 20, 2014 0:53:47 GMT -5
Never tire of your coral. Potato chips and flowers are the best. I gotta say that I have never thought to shoot a rock to see what would happen! It alleviates tennis elbow from using a hammer Pat. Looking into dynamite next
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 20, 2014 0:54:58 GMT -5
Two words James "HOLY CRAPOLY"!!!!!!! Nice
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