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Post by puppie96 on Dec 2, 2004 23:24:24 GMT -5
These are previews of a few polished pieces from the last rock hunt (the one with the less vuggy finds). I just took them, so there's no natural light. The first one was taken with flash and the second without. The first one got the color accurately but doesn't show the awesome shine. The second one picked up the shine, but no matter how I tried editing I couldn't get the color. So I posted them both. Thanks for looking!   |
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Dec 3, 2004 1:18:32 GMT -5
Hey Pup, I was wondering how those were going. Obviously you were able to find the magic touch to really show off these beauties. Great job, wish I could find stuff like that locally! PS, how the heck did you get them through to finished stones so quickly?  (I've been working on my current batch for 3.5 months... okay, I'm just slow  ) |
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 3, 2004 1:44:11 GMT -5
Thanks RS! Surprises me too, especially since these were the last ones picked up -- first weekend of November -- the vuggy ones were the week before. I think the speed factor is due to a couple of things, the 12-lb barrel does a more efficient rough grind, these particular rocks started off with pretty good shapes, and I could put it in the vibe for part of it. The vibe can get a polish in as little as 24 hours.
I've got polished ones from the more vuggy rock, too, some with really beautiful patterning but not regularly shaped like the usual tumbled rocks. I was trying to do just a couple of quick shots right now and when I tried to get a couple of the other rocks, the camera ran out of juice so I punted.
Definitely more is on the way, thanks for looking.
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llanago
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by llanago on Dec 3, 2004 7:56:13 GMT -5
Pretty, puppies! What a lucky gal you are to be able to find stuff like that in your corner of the world!
llana
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Post by sandsman1 on Dec 3, 2004 9:12:21 GMT -5
i like um pup real cool designs it does look kinda lacy
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Post by Cher on Dec 3, 2004 9:52:35 GMT -5
OMG Puppies, those are gorgeous! I love the blue in there, outstanding!! Wish I could find something like that up here, kind of reminds you of crazy lace don't you think?
Cher
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 3, 2004 13:38:11 GMT -5
Again thanks for looking and for the comments.
I am a true novice and have been self-educating about agates, so all comments are informative and helpful.
Yes, I've noticed the resemblance to crazy lace, among others. I know that MO has blue lace agate, and I was in the right geographical area, so this must be it.
The other area I've had good success hounding has a wide variety of agate, some seems to look like Fairburns, Crowley's Ridge, and Lakers, among others.
These are just the preview, too. I've got a lot of awesome stuff coming along, much of it being bigger stones that of course take longer.
Patience is a virtue. (Repeating this 10 times slowly with deep breaths, many times a day.)
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 3, 2004 13:39:46 GMT -5
Although this does look more gray than blue. I like that peachy/pinky color that shows up in these rocks, too.
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Post by connrock on Dec 3, 2004 20:14:17 GMT -5
Geeeeezzzz Pup's those are VERY pretty!! It must be a wonderful feeling to collect the rocks and have them ending up looking so good !! BRAVOOOOOOOO !! Thanks,,,,,, Tom  |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Dec 3, 2004 20:30:51 GMT -5
you found those in missouri?? am i in the only state with no rocks? i'm jealous and those are super!
kim
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Post by cookie3rocks on Dec 3, 2004 20:52:49 GMT -5
Nope, Kim, GA got no rocks, accept quartz, and that ain't so hot. But if you want some, I have plenty.
Pup, I am forever jealous. Great job.
Duh, what's "fuggy"?
cookie
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 4, 2004 0:33:30 GMT -5
Hey Cookster, that was "vuggy." I recently learned a new vocabulary word, "vug." Those are those gaping holes or pits in my rocks. Cavities in the agate, sorta. These are a problem in a lot of my local collections. In fact, I'm guessing that they (the vugs) are the reason that MO agate isn't very well known. The stuff's hard to work on. And yes, Tom, it is a huge rush to get finished rocks that you picked up locally that look like this, and it's also a huge rush when you first find the site and know you are on to something.
The weirdest thing is that I have always known that these varieties of rock were all over the place, but never thought about it. It makes pretty yard rocks and I've always thought of it as "cave rock" because it looks like cave formations, and when I first saw it in yards I thought that people had vandalized caves to bring it home and I was very upset about that. I did some caving for a while after moving here and the first thing you learn is that you NEVER NEVER NEVER pick up a rock in a cave or God forbid deface or break a formation. That is one rule that I would never break, and I say that even while admitting to having had occasional lapses in National Parks. When I started tumbling a year or so ago, I read everything I could find and never considered doing cave rock because what's the first thing you read? All the stuff about how pits, crevices, irregular surfaces carry grit and ruin your polish. Pieces of "cave rock" turn up in the back yard gravel and I avoided them, but a few snuck into the tumbles and I got some nice surprises. Once I got past the major prohibition against tumbling stuff that looked like honeycomb or a geode with one end cut off and a hollow inside, I started having some really great surprises. This felt like major heresy at first, but I have now tumbled a whole lot of it and gotten great polishes on it with no real problems at all.
Hey, I have been babbling about this for months now and I'm sure bored all the regulars to death, if they have even read this far after all the repetition. So HEY -- LURKERS -- is there anybody else out there picking up weird looking cave-type rock anyplace, or is anyone else from the state of MO and working local rocks? Or finding beautiful agate tangled up in twisted vuggy rock? Or anything related? I've looked at all the agate literature and pictures I can find but I can't find a thing that relates to this particular issue. Somebody else somewhere must be experimenting like I am...how could they not, when I've casually picked up stuff that a South Dakota expert says looks like Fairburn Agates? There have to be other people in the state of MO who have noticed this!
With 400+ members, of which only a few post regularly, there are a lot of lurkers out there, and I would really like to hear from anybody about this..................
Thanks!
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(I've been working on my current batch for 3.5 months... okay, I'm just slow 
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