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Hey Doc
Jul 17, 2004 22:34:05 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 17, 2004 22:34:05 GMT -5
I get my 1200 belts from Indian Jewelers Supply. I use the 1200 to polish my turquoise instead of Cerium Oxide. You can also get a 3600 belt. I haven't needed anything that fine, maybe some day. Doc
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Hey Doc
Jul 17, 2004 23:22:29 GMT -5
Post by sandsman1 on Jul 17, 2004 23:22:29 GMT -5
thanks doc i just went a ordered a catalog from them on disc,, i been trying to polish a few little things and the only thing that came out real good was a piece of flintridge flint,, maybe im doing it wrong do i press or just lay it against the belt maybe im pushing to hard or something i had no luck with the stitchtite it kept getting marks from the leather belt (any pointers) for the mentaly challenged hahaha
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Hey Doc
Jul 17, 2004 23:41:45 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 17, 2004 23:41:45 GMT -5
I have found the 1200 belt can be suprisingly aggresive! As with other belts, the best thing is to first sand an old stone. It softens the grit on the belt and takes some of the bit out. The rest is just developing the feel. Watch out with keeping fingers too close. Definately dop the stone.
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 11:40:26 GMT -5
Post by sandsman1 on Jul 18, 2004 11:40:26 GMT -5
hey doc what ya think of these flex wheels are they worth the money or do you know of a better deal or better wheel? i need a new firstgrind wheel for my grinder 60-80-or 100 www.lopacki.com/diamondwheels/
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 13:40:51 GMT -5
Post by connrock on Jul 18, 2004 13:40:51 GMT -5
Hi Doc,
I'm new to the group yet after reading this thread I feel as if i've been here right along.
I'm VERY happy for you and your wife that you have crossed the bridge a little with her mom and that you both are back "creating" again!
It's odd that we think our problems and heart aches are unique to ourselves and find out that we're not alone at all and have others to help us along our dark path back into our Lords light again!
I'm still on the dark path as my mom died on Fathers Day and I still can't bring myself to go back down to my shop and do what I love most.
I now spend most of my free time here at the computer or going to mom and dads house to go through everything and trying to make it past the kitchen without crying.I miss them both terribly.
I wish you,your wife and your families the best and hope and pray you will soon resolve all of your problems.
Tom
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shorty
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2003
Posts: 392
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 16:03:18 GMT -5
Post by shorty on Jul 18, 2004 16:03:18 GMT -5
hi all ha tom just thank of it this way there in a better place .now and when you go to be where they are that you will never be parted again thats how i feel .and it makes me able to deal with it. and go out ant find some rocks. take your mind off thangs it helps shorty
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shorty
spending too much on rocks
Member since December 2003
Posts: 392
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 16:08:27 GMT -5
Post by shorty on Jul 18, 2004 16:08:27 GMT -5
yes tom i lost my parents to so i now how you feel.. but you hafe to go on . to make you feel better go out ank kick the s=== out of some dume a== that will make you feel better just kidding
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 16:10:58 GMT -5
Post by krazydiamond on Jul 18, 2004 16:10:58 GMT -5
shorty is so right, you got to get on with your life and squeeze all the juice out of it while you can. life is short, and there are just SO many rocks out there! find solace in things you love and if not solace at least distraction, keep busy, time will never heal all but it will dull the hurt.
my sincerest sympathy for you on the loss of your mother, KD
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 16:18:06 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 18, 2004 16:18:06 GMT -5
Tom, it comes back. It is always darkest before the dawn. When I had my shop in Key West, my fifth exwife took the money and ran. The last day of our lease, I cleaned out the jewelery from the shop. I loaded into the van and proceeded home. I got there and the house was dark. I went inside and the furniture was gone, the gold, silver, pearls, all my tools, books, food, even the curtains were gone. The van I was building for shows was gone. I had no where to sleep, my clothes were gone. I went to the bank the next day and every penny was gone. Two days later a sheriff knocked on the door and forclosure proceedings were underway. My ex had not payed the mortguage for ten months. I was so busy making jewelery I had no clue. I found crumbs from jewelery she had dropped on the floor, in corners, I had bits from the shop and what was left of our inventory. I was absolutely dead in the water. Some drag queens and performers I had made jewelery for gave me some old broken earrings, rings, bracelets. I had to canibalize them to make my designs. I had no way to go to a fleamarket and had to give 1/2 of my daily take just for the ride. I got enough for a ticket to Portland Oregon. I got a room and laid down for a month. Nobody knew I lived there. Everytime I had to make a piece to sell for food, my hands would shake. My heart was gone. I met my new wife, she had the bejeebers beaten out of her by her ex., and we went to Florida to make and sell jeweley. A year of misery and we broke in. She knew nothing of the business and didn't understand all the concepts. She learned. From this, I learned, the best way out of heartache is to teach someone who is also lost. The process alone is the best healing I have ever done. You will be suprised what comes back when you teach someone who is lost something they can live by. It seems the energy alone heals the heart. I had blessings abundant but my heart was so full of holes I couldn't hold anything but misery. Your hand will come back, and you will be suprised by the extras.
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 19:27:34 GMT -5
Post by connrock on Jul 18, 2004 19:27:34 GMT -5
Thanks so much folks,,,,
It feels good to let some of it out and not try to hold it in!
You're great!!!!!!!!
Tom
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Hey Doc
Jul 18, 2004 20:22:02 GMT -5
Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 18, 2004 20:22:02 GMT -5
tom i'm so sorry about your mother. i love my mother so and know your pain must be great.
kim
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 19:38:59 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 19, 2004 19:38:59 GMT -5
I daresay, we are done with the whole thing. The fleamarkets on the Left Coast are not the same as where I came from. It appears folks here cannot keep the look good and go to fleamarkets. My wife has been in tears for four weeks at the whole venture. It has been something we needed to do, and we are reconciled we did our best. I fixed her second home, the one we are in, and now the tile has been laid and grouted she wants a different colour. We had to replace the engine in the van, we have done major repairs to her home, structural, and cosmetic. We paid out of pocket for the materials and I did the work instead of making jewelery. We done with it. We break in the engine and off to see the Wizard. Out of here, unless something changes and miracles do happen. We see.
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 20:02:34 GMT -5
Post by cookie3rocks on Jul 19, 2004 20:02:34 GMT -5
Doc, I think the miracle has happened. That's why your outta there. Good for you, your karma meter will be in the red for a long time. You can only do so much... Blessings to you and keep us posted.
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bwalters
has rocks in the head
Member since March 2004
Posts: 557
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 21:09:24 GMT -5
Post by bwalters on Jul 19, 2004 21:09:24 GMT -5
Doc, Are y'all headed back to Fla., or in some other direction? Wherever you decide to go, I wish you the very best. Sounds to me like you and your wife sacrificed and did your utmost to make a bad situation better. Blessings on you both!
BE
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 21:24:53 GMT -5
Post by krazydiamond on Jul 19, 2004 21:24:53 GMT -5
if only you believed in miracles, so would i......
KD
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 21:43:33 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 19, 2004 21:43:33 GMT -5
I've experienced a miracle. I am not sure what this one is however, her mother is more lucid than we are, gets up earlier stays up later and goes all day. I think what might happen out of all this is my wife might be completley reconciled that what we do is a living. She came from LA and after graduating college she took a year off and worked with me to "support" me. I have found from experience, with what we do, fleamarkets on the Left Coast is slow death. If her mother wasn't being the dilitante and keeping us for her look good with her friends, maybe things would be different. As it is, we plan on making room for her wherever we go. We even went to the Rose Bowl event. If I hadn't shown up and been recognized and did an autograph gig in front of his shop, his day would have been a bust. All those people walking around, I mean thousands and vendors starving. This whole thing sucks and she looks relieved. I do not know what the Kharma will bring. I do know our hearts were purely on trying to do the right thing with bad info. Such is life. I make a point of trying to not pass on what I hated most. Hey, how come Andy the above God entity keeps changing the intro page and I cannot find how to get in here without really looking hard? What is up with that, is he testing the upcoming dieties? Is this a test to find out who is the one? If we win, do we get to go to space and shoot aliens and rescue Elvis?
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 22:19:09 GMT -5
Post by krazydiamond on Jul 19, 2004 22:19:09 GMT -5
.Andy is actually a real guy and he was in chat earlier.....no kidding, i wasn't the only one In The Prescence......
Doc, are you REALLY sure you want to rescue Elvis?
what i want is a History of Doc......i went back to some of the old posts and found an amazing quilt of biography. you need to put it all down Doc in some sort of order so that we can understand the new god-becoming.
i make a request (Oneigai shimas)( arrigato gozimas, Doc-san)
KD
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llanago
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since January 2004
Posts: 1,714
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 23:01:26 GMT -5
Post by llanago on Jul 19, 2004 23:01:26 GMT -5
Ya'll can quit worrying about Elvis. He's been reincarnated in Daniel, my neice's 19 month old. As you can see, he's already into the guady stuff. He'll be wantin' a flashly jumptsuit in another year or so. He already has the Elvis gyrate down pat, whether there's music or not. Elvis lives, he just ain't growed up yet! llana
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 23:51:23 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Jul 19, 2004 23:51:23 GMT -5
Whoah dude! I saw that young person the last time I went to Santa Clause and his Old lady commune! It looks like he has some magic dust! The chronology of the Dr.? How about a pretty guilt ridden teenager who's idea of a terminal crime was stealing a roll of lifesavers and promptly returning them. Seminary was in order, I could exhaust my guilt in the depths of spiritual enlightnment. If I was on the Creators team, surely he could overlook the lifesavers. Preached at church and was a syndicated televangelist. Something was missing. Vietnam changed some perspectives. Time became very short and precious. Rock and Roll!!! What a way to communicate! In the spotlight. I was in Live Aid!!!! 100,000 people saw me make a fool of myself. An issue with slurring and staying erect. My wife loves to see me on VH1 on Where Did the Rockers Go. What do you do when the music has died? Where do you go? I joined Jim Dandy and the Lost Planet Airmen! Many years of living in the corrugated hotel eating scraps. I went into the desert, got lost. Today, I have a jewelery business, at the moment in transition. The main purpose for the business, I work with alcoholics and drug addicts. The big name hoo de doos did not want my kind for a counselor, so I use the shop profits to support my own work. My jewelery attracts people who need someone to hear them. They know I know. My newest wife is a degreed psychologist and she has joined me as she also found attraction rather than promotion can open an ear to hear to hear better than threats, loss, or just damage control. My son thinks I am crazy, her daughter is an attorney and is waiting for her to get over it, her mother thinks we are trailer trash and an embarassement. "Give up the jewelery, get a job, go to the opera!" I cannot hear the music when I think my brother is starving and maybe I can listen and let him live in hope. I teach those seeking recovery to work with the stones. If the real world will not welcome him back, maybe he will not starve like I did. People like stones. That is all folks! Ba, Ma, Mb, Ma, Phd Div, Public communications, international economics, Divinity, music, mechanical engineering, aeronautics and airfoil theory, fluid dynamics. Couldn't make up my mind, still cannot. I always wanted to drive bulldozers and trucks. I did that and I am good, however broken neck, back, artificial knee, mangled right elbow, broken jaw, steel plate in the left occipital mostly blind from exposure in the arctic. Still do not know the group I played in? We warmed up for the 'Dead, Pat Bennetar, and Heart warmed up for us for a couple on their Dreamboat Annie Tour. I am right now wearing the boots I wore to Woodstock, not MTVStock, the one where the good bands went. I just listened and got a stalker for 26yrs. Did a lot of really neat stuff there. Qualified me to work with alcoholics and addicts. Checked in, couldn't check out. Kept hearing the drums beating. How 'bout you guys? It is confessional.
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Hey Doc
Jul 19, 2004 23:53:37 GMT -5
Post by cookie3rocks on Jul 19, 2004 23:53:37 GMT -5
What beautiful green eyes that child has! A hunka hunka burnin love, I tell ya ;D
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