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Post by puppie96 on Nov 1, 2004 2:11:51 GMT -5
Seems like a lot of us were working on obsidian at the same time! Mine started out as fairly rough rock that I collected. These pictures were hard to take, but there is some transparent gray in there as well as some subtle color variation within the stones. As you can see, there are also a lot of pits in many and white inclusions, colored inclusions in some. I took this through the whole cycle twice because the first time through, at the end it was just too pitted and irregular and was kind of cloudy. The first time I tried to polish in tin oxide. The second time through, I got to the end and concluded that those pits were bottomless and it was time to quit on them. The stark whiteness of them is kind of cool, anyhow.     These next two have a reddish brown stone that's transparent to translucent, but I didn't have much luck getting any details in the picture.   This last one features one of my favorites in the batch, where the obsidian is attached to that white rock that also polished. Cool!  Thanks for stopping by! |
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Nov 1, 2004 2:19:29 GMT -5
I really like the black ones (including those with the white inclusions), nice job! I've never done obsidian, but those white inclusions make many of the stones look very much like snowflake obsidian....any chance of that?
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 1, 2004 2:36:14 GMT -5
Rollingstone, I wondered that also. I have a piece of snowflake obsidian that was in my very first batch of "tumbling mix" for comparison. The snowflakes seem to more often disperse kind of delicately on the surface, while most of what you see in my photos are -- I cannot tell a lie -- pits. Here and there, though, there are some white markings that look more like the snowflakes. The occasional other colors are cool, too.
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
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Post by deepsouth on Nov 1, 2004 3:07:18 GMT -5
I am imptressed by the results Puppies , you have done them well despite the pits .
Good fotos to watch too. Great
Thanks
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phoenix1647
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by phoenix1647 on Nov 1, 2004 9:47:21 GMT -5
OK OK...I want that one ...and that one....and oh yeah...this one..and...well... just send them all to me...
What a beautiful bunch of rocks you have there...am getting way jealous here......
I didn't see any in there I didn't like.....
Pho
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Post by Cher on Nov 1, 2004 14:07:56 GMT -5
*drooling* Wow Puppie, very nice job and great shine!! I had to get up close to those red ones to see "inside". They look really cool, I lightened it some for all to see. Check out the one on the left, that one looks really neat.  Cher |
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 1, 2004 23:55:53 GMT -5
Cher, that's great! I try to fix the brightness and contrast and to get good close ups, but I'm not good at it and I don't want to show the rocks enhanced beyond reality! I tried to fix the obsidians, but the rough rock photos are unedited.
The ones with the red definitely are very pretty and I love how your close up brought out the red in the reddish brown clear one. I also noticed that it makes the transparent chip to the left of the brown one look a bit iridescent (sp?) Rainbow obsidian? While washing these between grinds, I noticed from time to time some seemed a bit rainbow-ish, but I haven't seen it so much now that they are polished.
Pho, I'm glad you want them all, that's high praise! Too bad they are so darn fragile; the big ones really like to crack and chip.
Thanks for looking!
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Nov 4, 2004 11:44:29 GMT -5
Hey Puppie,
Nice load there ... I have yet to get my last load finished ... Great job!
John
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Post by hermatite on Nov 4, 2004 11:49:21 GMT -5
It's like a cosmic convergence! My obidian just went into coarse grit this morning!
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Post by puppie96 on Nov 5, 2004 3:35:25 GMT -5
Hematite, isn't it weird how we seem to run in cycles, so to speak? How did obsidian become a recent board fad? go figure.
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