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Post by Pat on Mar 23, 2017 15:33:20 GMT -5
Club show was last weekend. I love it! Here are some goodies I brought home. Enjoy! The thin sticks are going to be accent pieces. The bigger pietersites are going to be the main focus of pendants. 1- Eye Agate: about 1" across  fullsizeoutput_158c by Pat, on Flickr 2- Tiger iron. Water in the middle area  fullsizeoutput_158d by Pat, on Flickr 3- 1" and 2" very thin saw blades for Foredom. Attach to a mandrel  fullsizeoutput_158e by Pat, on Flickr 4-Guava quartz. Color is right on.  fullsizeoutput_158f by Pat, on Flickr 5-Specular Hematite coated  fullsizeoutput_1590 by Pat, on Flickr 6-Dark green is Chrome Tremolite from Afghanistan; light green is antigorite serpentine from Quebec, Canada  fullsizeoutput_1591 by Pat, on Flickr 7- Quartz xl on another xl  fullsizeoutput_1592 by Pat, on Flickr 8-Namibian pietersite  fullsizeoutput_1593 by Pat, on Flickr 9-quartz; two different types on one piece  fullsizeoutput_1594 by Pat, on Flickr 10- Snail shell opalized. Do you know what its name is? About 1.5" across.  fullsizeoutput_1595 by Pat, on Flickr 11-Turkish Druse. Color is same as blue chalcedony. It is both dressy and botriodal. About 1". I could not get the color to show right.  fullsizeoutput_1596 by Pat, on Flickr 12- Variety of thin sticks about 1" long  fullsizeoutput_1597 by Pat, on Flickr |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Mar 23, 2017 15:42:16 GMT -5
Pat, #10 is a nautilus fossil. AMMONITE I have several of them, have not got around to wrapping them, although that had been the plan.
toiv0 Of course you are correct, sir! I had a brain fart... |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 23, 2017 16:03:27 GMT -5
Great finds! Those in picture 1 are super cool.... creepy but really cool! I love chrome tremolite, too. I thought it is only available from NY. Glad you can get it other places because the NY stuff is buried under a highway now.
Have you used those blades before? They look really handy. Do you use them with a guard?
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Post by toiv0 on Mar 23, 2017 17:45:34 GMT -5
ammolite for #10 at least I think it is.
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Post by NDK on Mar 23, 2017 18:10:34 GMT -5
Nice haul Pat. Those eye agates are funky. Cool looking when polished up. I had to Google them because I've never heard of them before.
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Post by Pat on Mar 23, 2017 23:49:03 GMT -5
NDK I had never seen the eye agates before. Be interesting to learn their history. $3 each; later I saw a different vendor selling them for $12 each!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:16:36 GMT -5
NDK I had never seen the eye agates before. Be interesting to learn their history. $3 each; later I saw a different vendor selling them for $12 each!! Eye agates are creapy! |
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Post by Pat on Mar 24, 2017 0:23:40 GMT -5
NDK Eye agates are creapy! Agree; also interesting! Big chocolate ball in dough. |
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Post by napoleonrags on Mar 24, 2017 20:01:00 GMT -5
Great Nautilus Batman, number 10 rocks.
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Post by Pat on Mar 26, 2017 17:38:39 GMT -5
Great finds! Those in picture 1 are super cool.... creepy but really cool! I love chrome tremolite, too. I thought it is only available from NY. Glad you can get it other places because the NY stuff is buried under a highway now. Have you used those blades before? They look really handy. Do you use them with a guard? Tela, I haven't used them ever, but they looked handy to me, too. Going to set them in my Foredom and set the Foredom handle in the vise I showed in another thread --- Favorite tools. At this point, I plan on using them only for stones, so will need a water setup which I have for carving. Don't have a guard, but figure on using a face mask, eye protection (optivisor). Might decide I need a guard after I use them! I also figure they will be good as a trim saw for faceting. Haven't actually faceted yet. Every step I take opens up new steps. That's Ok. I get a faceting lesson from a local faceter this summer. Here is the Foredom vise. Will switch out the mandrel and insert mandrel with saw blade.  IMG_1574 by Pat, on Flickr |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 28, 2017 16:37:06 GMT -5
Yuppers Ammonite... Nice score on it all .....
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Post by santabarbara on May 27, 2017 20:13:59 GMT -5
nice, its always fun getting new stuff and making a new step into lapidary
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