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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 13, 2018 19:17:45 GMT -5
First up a bad a** stony creek from @hookedonrocks Paul. Love it! This is a big freeform pear. I didn't have a template big enough. 48mm A lower grade Blue G Lawsonite. This wedge rough piece was almost this shape before I cut the half heart. Didn't think it would polish well, but it did. a nice little red leopardskin- took a gorgeous polish a little OJ scrap stefoinite PCP Pacific Coast Picasso- I love this stuff, but boy is it fractured! I think this is the only one I cut from a template that didn't break at the saw.
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Post by MsAli on Aug 13, 2018 19:22:11 GMT -5
How do you get 6 incredible cabs done in one day when I barely finish 1?
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 13, 2018 19:32:52 GMT -5
I like them all. Scraps make great cabs. Nice pictures with the board background.
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Post by beefjello on Aug 13, 2018 20:01:49 GMT -5
Beautiful set Tela! Always love your Stefoinite cabs. That's one material that has eluded me.
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 13, 2018 20:19:41 GMT -5
Beautiful set Tela! Always love your Stefoinite cabs. That's one material that has eluded me. It is also one of my favorite cabbing materials. It requires having to work around pits and fractures.
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mossyrockhound
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Post by mossyrockhound on Aug 14, 2018 11:18:16 GMT -5
Great job! Interesting to see material I've never cabbed (except for the OJ).
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 14, 2018 12:46:32 GMT -5
As usual, they are all beauties!
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mgrets
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Post by mgrets on Aug 14, 2018 13:43:12 GMT -5
6 nice cabs, but the stefoinite gets my vote. I don't think I've ever even heard of it before.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 13:51:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm a stefoinite fan, too!
Leopardskin also turned out very nice, getting less common than it once was.
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Post by Tommy on Aug 14, 2018 13:56:25 GMT -5
That's a nice piece of Stony Creek! How was the shine for you? The more heavily agatized material from there has always given me a trouble with kind of a difficult surface to get the bugs out of.
Your stefoinite always makes me weak in the knees and that has to be the nicest "Blue G" cab I've ever seen.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 14, 2018 14:46:12 GMT -5
That's a nice piece of Stony Creek! How was the shine for you? The more heavily agatized material from there has always given me a trouble with kind of a difficult surface to get the bugs out of. Your stefoinite always makes me weak in the knees and that has to be the nicest "Blue G" cab I've ever seen. The stony creek cabbed very easily. The polish looks like the polish that Morgan Hill gets. It's very shiny and even but not deep. LOL! That Blue G is the lowest grade I have. I bought a mixture of grades from Kris. That piece was laying around forever so I decided to cab it to get rid of it. The high grade is super nice (to me). Looks like robin eggs. I have a few slabs of nice stefoinite, but they are real thick and I'm lazy. They have to wait till I feel like doing that much grinding. Or, new wheels. My 80 is getting pretty worn.
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 14, 2018 15:22:06 GMT -5
Is the stefoinite thick enough to split? You don't have to split the slab, you can split the cab or the area around the cab with a trim saw. I got a 1" slab from dign Utah on ebay on a make an offer and was able to get 3 slabs out of it when my slab saw was still working. I made it over 15 years cabbing without a slab saw. I try to limit my trim saw slabbing because of blade wear.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 14, 2018 15:31:13 GMT -5
Is the stefoinite thick enough to split? You don't have to split the slab, you can split the cab or the area around the cab with a trim saw. I got a 1" slab from dign Utah on ebay on a make an offer and was able to get 3 slabs out of it when my slab saw was still working. I made it over 15 years cabbing without a slab saw. I try to limit my trim saw slabbing because of blade wear. Unfortunately, it is too thin to split and too thick to happily cab. I forget exactly, but it is around 1/2 thick.
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 14, 2018 15:35:01 GMT -5
Is the stefoinite thick enough to split? You don't have to split the slab, you can split the cab or the area around the cab with a trim saw. I got a 1" slab from dign Utah on ebay on a make an offer and was able to get 3 slabs out of it when my slab saw was still working. I made it over 15 years cabbing without a slab saw. I try to limit my trim saw slabbing because of blade wear. Unfortunately, it is too thin to split and too thick to happily cab. I forget exactly, but it is around 1/2 thick. With a .032 blade you should be able to get two 3/16 slabs. A lot of the slabs I bought are 3/16.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 14, 2018 15:36:21 GMT -5
A great bunch. Cannot pick a favorite.
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Post by miket on Aug 14, 2018 16:26:47 GMT -5
All very nice! I think the Stony Creek and the red leopardskin tie for my favorites...
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