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Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2020 6:06:10 GMT -5
1dave This is snowmom's impactite pushed down via glacier from Sudbury Impact site in Ontario. I believe the green areas are moldavite
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Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2020 6:11:36 GMT -5
This is a coral snake NRG
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Post by jamesp on Mar 8, 2020 6:16:29 GMT -5
The middle left and bottom left made me think of the coral snake colors. I can do a coral snake motif Benathema. No problem, colors in stock.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 8, 2020 9:43:25 GMT -5
1dave This is snowmom's impactite pushed down via glacier from Sudbury Impact site in Ontario. I believe the green areas are moldavite More likely the green is olivine (peridot). Very cool!
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Post by 1dave on Mar 8, 2020 18:26:00 GMT -5
1dave This is snowmom's impactite pushed down via glacier from Sudbury Impact site in Ontario. I believe the green areas are moldavite Thanks Jim! I'm in the middle of studying Silicon. Silicon, at 0.07%, is the eighth-most abundant element in the universe (was thougt to be 7th, but there is much more iron than originally calculated). It is at 0.09% in the sun’s envelop, 14% of meteorites, 27% of Earth’s crust, 21% of earth’s mantle, 0.026% of humans, and 0.0001% of our oceans. It’s fiery birth rings the death knell for stars. Silicon burning only lasts about a day, then within minutes runs through a batch from sulfur to zinc.
From there on the process consumes energy, the core collapses, and MEGA-BOOM! By-by star. Then all the shape-shifting as SiO 2 cools down and heats up.
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Post by NRG on Mar 8, 2020 23:55:23 GMT -5
This is a coral snake NRGThat's Micruroides the Sonoran coral snake. I know it well.
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Post by NRG on Mar 9, 2020 0:00:38 GMT -5
Micrurus diastema means you are dead. Google it. No, this is not a pyromelana. This is a coral snake. And the first one is a California Mtn King. Did you mean to add anything?
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Post by Benathema on Mar 9, 2020 0:58:36 GMT -5
Did you mean to add anything? Damn snake got 'em befo...
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Post by jamesp on Mar 9, 2020 9:55:35 GMT -5
1dave This is snowmom's impactite pushed down via glacier from Sudbury Impact site in Ontario. I believe the green areas are moldavite More likely the green is olivine (peridot). Very cool! Olivine ! Makes perfect sense. They were a glassy material Robin so I thought it possible to be moldavite. Peridot makes better sense, I believe it is real common in meteors. I am still trying to get my head around the Sudbury impact due to the amount of nickel and impactite at that site. It is one of the biggest impact sites still definable on earth. Alien capital of north America !
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Post by wpotterw on Mar 9, 2020 16:37:10 GMT -5
Did you mean to add anything? I thought I did. My response was that I was talking about the king snake, not the coral snake. It looked as close to the Sonora Mtn king snake as I have seen. I still remember the first color pic of one that I saw in the World Book Encyclopedia (back when that was the only place to see those things). It was taken by Hal Harrison, famous wildlife photographer. There are plenty of cool herps in the east, but the desert and mountain herps always seemed more exotic to me. Credit little golden book of Reptiles and Amphibians and the Time-Life series "Life of the (fill in the blank).
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Post by wpotterw on Mar 9, 2020 16:47:49 GMT -5
Did you mean to add anything? I thought I did. My response was that I was talking about the king snake, not the coral snake. It looked as close to the Sonora Mtn king snake as I have seen. I still remember the first color pic of one that I saw in the World Book Encyclopedia (back when that was the only place to see those things). It was taken by Hal Harrison, famous wildlife photographer. There are plenty of cool herps in the east, but the desert and mountain herps always seemed more exotic to me. Credit little golden book of Reptiles and Amphibians and the Time-Life series "Life of the (fill in the blank).
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Post by wpotterw on Mar 9, 2020 16:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by RocksInNJ on Mar 10, 2020 3:39:37 GMT -5
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Post by NRG on Mar 11, 2020 15:54:27 GMT -5
Did you mean to add anything? I thought I did. My response was that I was talking about the king snake, not the coral snake. It looked as close to the Sonora Mtn king snake as I have seen. I still remember the first color pic of one that I saw in the World Book Encyclopedia (back when that was the only place to see those things). It was taken by Hal Harrison, famous wildlife photographer. There are plenty of cool herps in the east, but the desert and mountain herps always seemed more exotic to me. Credit little golden book of Reptiles and Amphibians and the Time-Life series "Life of the (fill in the blank).  The kingsnake is a California mountain king. The Sonoran has a white nose.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 13, 2020 6:43:58 GMT -5
Wife and I went out to the glass pile and picked some melts and tumbles. She was collecting small chunks of blown glass to melt to colored back grounds. I was collecting 3/4" to 1" chunks to go straight to tumbler to tumble polish as a gift to Matt Janke for giving us his scrap glass. Hope to have about a 15 pound batch of tumbles of his glass accumulated for gift day. Selectively tumbling them for a year. And of recent she has been picking up inventory of cow kangaroo and deer leather cord. Also trying out various glue-on bales. Denise's leather, cords and glue-on bales. Glue is E6000+Plus. She picked this 7 pounds of glass blower's scraps from a row of buckets to re-melt on colored back grounds. She says it it the best she ever collected since we have never really focused on digging for better quality. closer in, Denise's pickings, all Matt Janke's master works. His detail is amazing. We feel honored to have his scraps to work with. And this is one of hundreds of broken shards in his pile. Complex. Anxious to see what back ground colors she melts to the back. Gotta be white for some of them.(her call oops) This is how she sets them up. Volume and dimension comes in play in addition to color rhythm. Best to grind away excess clear glass to reduce color dilution after melt(she often skips this step washing out her colors) She did 3 shelves of pendant melts. I did this test shelf. The rainbow colors are chips from a pot melt clean up being fused into small balls hopefully. The milk glass shards at the bottom are being test fused with import glass. We have buckets of the expensive milk glass shards to play with. Should have results from kiln out shortly. The 12 pounds of glass I collected was cut to size and tossed in the tumbler. Give it 2-3 weeks.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 13, 2020 8:10:38 GMT -5
wpotterw NRGI want to melt the various colors and color sequences/spacings of a variety of different coral snakes in glass. Perhaps in a rod or longish bar shape. Or pendants.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 13, 2020 8:20:33 GMT -5
I will say it again -- Denise has a good eye. Those pieces she picked out should make some awesome pendants.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 13, 2020 11:29:36 GMT -5
I will say it again -- Denise has a good eye. Those pieces she picked out should make some awesome pendants. Results Robin !! She really hit them out of the park. No justice in photos. She doesn't know it but she was picking from the lessor prettyful glass. And some additions for future psychedelic motif's. jamesp made his first frit balls out of waste. Imagine a milk glass brick with those striped spots scattered throughout... Note that the scrap milk glass did work well with the import glass frit(3 test blobs) Finally a big pile of easy-to-work-with white opal glass to mix w/primary colors into for pleasing the serial killer's of the world ! 3" x 5" note card
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 13, 2020 19:20:09 GMT -5
I will say it again -- Denise has a good eye. Those pieces she picked out should make some awesome pendants. Results Robin !! She really hit them out of the park. No justice in photos. She doesn't know it but she was picking from the lessor prettyful glass. And some additions for future psychedelic motif's. jamesp made his first frit balls out of waste. Imagine a milk glass brick with those striped spots scattered throughout... Note that the scrap milk glass did work well with the import glass frit(3 test blobs) Finally a big pile of easy-to-work-with white opal glass to mix w/primary colors into for pleasing the serial killer's of the world ! 3" x 5" note card Yes she did! Awesome job.
I really like those milk glass blobs you did, too.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 14, 2020 4:59:58 GMT -5
It is a long list of steps to finish the cabs Denise is making hummingbirdstones. select subjects from pile cut back ground color plate minimal shaping on the blower's scrap melt final shaping the melted blob drill hole tumble shape/finish attach cord The small kiln holds five 8"x8" shelves, 16 pendants/shelf. It takes her about 4 hours to set up for melt on 80 units.
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