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Post by meviva on Sept 5, 2016 21:25:54 GMT -5
This is so much fun. These are from today and yesterday. Blackskin agate  Rio from Sabre52  This is supposed to be Ocean Jasper but I'm not sure if it really is.  Some sort of pet wood.  I have no clue what this is.  Same stuff but cut in different direction.  Montana agate from Wendy....love it!  |
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Post by Pat on Sept 5, 2016 21:34:52 GMT -5
Agree: stabbing is a lot of fun, especially when you get to see the inside. Good job!!!
I like the clueless one when cut in the second direction.
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Post by meviva on Sept 5, 2016 21:41:53 GMT -5
Agree: stabbing is a lot of fun, especially when you get to see the inside. Good job!!! I like the clueless one when cut in the second direction. Stabbing? Lol.... I know what you meant. |
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Post by Pat on Sept 5, 2016 21:43:43 GMT -5
Oops! Wouldn't want to see the insides that resulted from stabbing! Yes, slabbing is different.  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Sept 5, 2016 21:49:05 GMT -5
Wasting no time getting that shop dirty, I see. Great cuts. I like the rio and the odd cut on the unknown. |
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Post by Pat on Sept 5, 2016 21:55:15 GMT -5
The clueless second cut reminds me of lightning stone. Somebody on RTH sells them. Beautiful.
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 5, 2016 22:17:03 GMT -5
Great cuts! Very unusual Rio you got there and that's some wild looking wood and awesome Montanas too. Your unknowns appear to be Flint Ridge Flint FYI.....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Sept 6, 2016 6:14:30 GMT -5
Rio's are a smorgasbord of variety. Must be a thousand different agate fields washed into one giant pile in S Texas. Slabber's delight.
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 6, 2016 9:31:43 GMT -5
Beautiful cuts!!!! Like the direction of the second cut also with that one material....
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Post by meviva on Sept 6, 2016 9:55:42 GMT -5
Great cuts! Very unusual Rio you got there and that's some wild looking wood and awesome Montanas too. Your unknowns appear to be Flint Ridge Flint FYI.....Mel Thanks Mel. I cut a few others from you. I posted them on another thread, I don't know if you saw them. Here the are: Another unusual Rio.....love the colors.  George West pet wood  More George West   |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 6, 2016 10:06:26 GMT -5
keep em coming
that pink stone is probably better in real time
and it is probably the only one on earth
the absolute most bizarre comes from the Rio
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Post by meviva on Sept 6, 2016 22:34:51 GMT -5
Rio's are a smorgasbord of variety. Must be a thousand different agate fields washed into one giant pile in S Texas. Slabber's delight. The Rios are really fun. I'll be posting more for sure. I have probably 40-50 lbs of them. Andrea |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 6, 2016 22:46:35 GMT -5
Rio's are a smorgasbord of variety. Must be a thousand different agate fields washed into one giant pile in S Texas. Slabber's delight. The Rios are really fun. I'll be posting more for sure. I have probably 40-50 lbs of them. Andrea I went to Lake Falcon area; a ranch with prime agate topped hills. Man was that a cool trip. The agate jasper and wood blew my mind. Collected so much I had to ship most of it in 60 LFRB's. greedy LOL Check it out www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157632959424187 |
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Post by meviva on Sept 6, 2016 23:29:47 GMT -5
Today's cuts: Polka dot  From the same piece  Some kind of plume  From the same piece  Don't know what this is but it must have had a fracture because the first few slabs broke in the same spot  Same colors but different rock....don't know what this one is either.  |
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Post by meviva on Sept 6, 2016 23:37:05 GMT -5
The Rios are really fun. I'll be posting more for sure. I have probably 40-50 lbs of them. Andrea I went to Lake Falcon area; a ranch with prime agate topped hills. Man was that a cool trip. The agate jasper and wood blew my mind. Collected so much I had to ship most of it in 60 LFRB's. greedy LOL Check it out www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157632959424187Holy moly!! 60 LFRB's....I want to go there. Your mailman sure got a workout. That would be so much fun. Did you tumble any? |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2016 7:08:13 GMT -5
I met the mail lady and unloaded them. They were waylaid till I got home. She was glad to see me at home those days. OMG did I tumble them. went berserk, and poured them into concrete logs so that I could mass saw them. check it out: www.flickr.com/photos/67205364@N06/sets/72157631927601357The smaller pebbles I tumbled the patina off of them first with very coarse grit. Then cast them in concrete. Must have had close to a 100 pounds of these little slabs. Then tumbled the slabs to polish.  |
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2016 7:28:34 GMT -5
The gravel truckers invited me into the gravel quarry down the road. I could have filled a dump truck with agates. Thought about contracting one some day. Just need to hire about 15 collectors to sort thru the gravel. The RTH should get together and organize a mass collection and stock pile a 15 ton load on the quarry property and have it distributed from there on pallets/55 gallon drums via motor freight. Give me 15 people and 6 days and each man would have two or three 55 gallon drums full. Then freight cost, probably $150/drum at 600 pounds/drum. Been thinking about arranging a trip with RTH people to that gravel quarry, and just as well on a smaller scale. There was an old pile of 4-12 inch cobbles about 3 stories high. Rejected for size. Those needed serious picking over. Target road gravel on right, rejected large cobbles on left. No one gets in this place, very desolate and gated. Prime high hill ancient river bend agate deposits:  Close up of target gravel  Collected in a few minutes upon arrival  |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Sept 7, 2016 7:48:14 GMT -5
I'm up for that trip. Looks like a hounding playground.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2016 8:27:38 GMT -5
I'm up for that trip. Looks like a hounding playground. Like no other Randy. And I had a riot with the locals. Ended up being invited to three other ranches adjacent totaling 5000 acres. And the local watering hole at night. and other invitations I need not mention lol. Never made it down to the lake that had exposed shores of agate galore. You just had to watch your back because of border activity. Wild wild west and some. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 11:21:42 GMT -5
I'm up for that trip. Looks like a hounding playground. Was planning an october trip this year. New job cancels fun. Weeekend work required... |
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