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Post by glennz01 on May 2, 2016 10:21:16 GMT -5
May 2016 Friendly Cab Contest /Challenge
This is a challenge to yourself... What is the best cab that you can create... posting the results of your creation whatever the outcome.
Theme: Favorites, your favorite __________
Rules: -
Cabs entered must be completed by the deadline (they can be started before the month). All entries will require a photo of the slab or rock, preform and finished cab. So no cabs pulled from the drawer.
You can enter as many photos of the finished cab as you like (within reason) on the same post. If you decide to add another photo later on, please edit your original post.
Things like intarsias, carvings, jewelry, and composite type cabs may not be entered (unless otherwise specified) in an effort to keep the contest somewhat fair by just entering free form style cabs. It is OK if there is a hole drilled in the item with or without a jump ring, as long as there is no extras on the rock (wire, chord, etc.)
We ask that all entries submitted to this contest be unique to this competition (not submitted in several different competitions). any duplicates will not be included in the voting list.
Feel free to share with us what ever you like about the material, the process or what ever else you would like to share.
Also, don't forget to include the name of the material.
If a tie occurs in the voting the breaker will be whoever submitted the finished item first.
Prize : N/A
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Post by happyheatherhill on May 5, 2016 22:18:29 GMT -5
Sorry, I feel pretty dumb asking this. Is it favorite material and/or shape? Make something dirt simple and some idgit will come along and ask a question, right?  ? |
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Post by rockjunquie on May 5, 2016 22:32:27 GMT -5
Is it that the stone should represent our favorite thing or that the stone should be our favorite stone?
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Post by Tommy on May 5, 2016 23:10:22 GMT -5
I think it's our favorite thing about being stoned.
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Post by glennz01 on May 5, 2016 23:23:04 GMT -5
Anything that is your favorite (you fill in the blank) anything you can thing of stone, shape, color, crystal, stone type, metaloids (and the list continues).
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Post by captbob on May 6, 2016 11:20:42 GMT -5
If your name is Maria, I believe you will be limited to:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
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Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,
door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles.
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.
or -
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
silver white winters that melt into springs
Good luck with that!
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 6, 2016 11:28:41 GMT -5
Those are just a few...
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Post by captbob on May 6, 2016 11:53:26 GMT -5
oooh... good point! Hope there are more entries this month with the theme being so wide open. |
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Post by Tommy on May 6, 2016 11:59:33 GMT -5
<deleted> that wasn't very nice so I deleted it.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 19:47:32 GMT -5
Sorry, I feel pretty dumb asking this. Is it favorite material and/or shape? Make something dirt simple and some idgit will come along and ask a question, right? ? Honestly, I believe he meant to broaden the options of the various artists whom may enter. He got heat for being to narrow, Take the freedom, use your artistic license and make some bitchin' cabs. Make the backstory good for extra votes.... I can't do it, so I will just watch. |
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Post by metalsmith on May 10, 2016 13:17:24 GMT -5
Ok, time to get in early just in case of a tie  or just to get the ball rolling ... my first comp entry. Who knows why, Chrysocolla seems to have grabbed me pretty firmly in the recent past. The first 4 photos (in image 1) show me taking a slice from a cobble with a 1mm diamond blade hand-held in a pendant motor. Rocks from the US / rest of the world are pretty expensive over here, so featuring high is a cut with minimum loss, or off-cuts with possible alternative employment in the future. Image 1 Photo5 is the resulting slice. Straight away I see the potential for a shield-shape. Photo6 a straight cut to open the way to the shield Photo7 the reverse with a dire need of improvement Photos8&9 tidied up Photo10 considering facets Image 2 All in various stages of being 'facetted'. I cut them by hand and eye - that is, hand-held; any imperfection requires a recut. Any serious imperfection requires 2 or more recuts to balance, but this went well: no recuts at all. Image 3 All polished up and under various lighting angles to show the matches in cutting. Finished size: 26.5mm x 17.7mm x 4mm metric or 1" x 0.7" x 0.15" 'English' / Imperial / US    |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2016 13:21:33 GMT -5
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Post by metalsmith on May 31, 2016 12:43:42 GMT -5
No competition ... literally
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2016 14:43:05 GMT -5
No competition ... literally You got my vote! |
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Post by glennz01 on May 31, 2016 21:52:12 GMT -5
I'll have something finished tonight.. probably my blue tiger eye
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Post by glennz01 on May 31, 2016 22:45:21 GMT -5
Well due to having only 3 wheels left I had to finish something that was mostly finished with my stage 3 wheel. I don't have a preform pic this time unfortunitally, but just finished a few minutes ago. My camera doesn't do a good job at picking up the yellow streak.   |
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 31, 2016 23:00:40 GMT -5
Don't know if this is a qualified entry, since it was shaped on the saw and tumbled, but I did enter my first competition tonight, might as well make it two. Only one pic because I didn't expect to do anything with it until now. Botswana agate.
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 1, 2016 2:13:53 GMT -5
Don't know if this is a qualified entry, since it was shaped on the saw and tumbled, but I did enter my first competition tonight, might as well make it two. Only one pic because I didn't expect to do anything with it until now. Botswana agate.
If you don't have a $1000+ machine one can produce cabs just as you did. It may take some time at a saw blade to get the angles right. I thought about mass producing agate cabs like that but using my 80 grit cabbing wheels to shape. Thanks for entering. |
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Post by glennz01 on Jun 1, 2016 2:21:08 GMT -5
About 2 hrs left depending on where you live.
no theme for next month so start creating, there will be a tangible prize next month!
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Post by orrum on Jun 1, 2016 6:03:02 GMT -5
All right Garage Rocker that is a awesome cab!!! You might sweep the forum pardner!!!
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