julieooly
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Post by julieooly on Feb 3, 2019 18:44:38 GMT -5
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Post by MsAli on Feb 3, 2019 21:37:07 GMT -5
That is a beautiful stone. Split it in half and make moons?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 23:02:43 GMT -5
...or perhaps a silver lightning bolt as part of a setting. Looks volcanic, and lightning commonly occurs in eruptions.
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<'))))>< Fish
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Post by <'))))>< Fish on Feb 3, 2019 23:33:12 GMT -5
fill the crack front and back with hot stuff.
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Post by stephan on Feb 4, 2019 1:12:43 GMT -5
Swear, set it aside, and come back to it when I'm less annoyed (usually months later), and probably make two free-forms.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Feb 4, 2019 10:58:39 GMT -5
That is a beautiful stone. Split it in half and make moons?
That's what I would do — remove it from the dop, break it if that doesn't do it, and cut straight or slightly convex sides on the broken edges. I've made a number of 2-cab or 3-cab pendants where one or two of the cabs were semicircular or roughly half-moon shapes. They make for interesting pendant designs that sell well.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 4, 2019 11:19:59 GMT -5
That is a beautiful stone. Split it in half and make moons? That's what I would do — remove it from the dop, break it if that doesn't do it, and cut straight or slightly convex sides on the broken edges. I've made a number of 2-cab or 3-cab pendants where one or two of the cabs were semicircular or roughly half-moon shapes. They make for interesting pendant designs that sell well.
Same here. Or set it aside in a "to try to fix later when I learn about Hyxtal and Opticon" tupperware (mine is getting pretty full!)
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Post by gmitch067 on Feb 4, 2019 12:46:31 GMT -5
Break it in half and using a hand grinder (like a dremel or foredom) grind one half as a yin and the other half as a yang and mate the two (?)
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julieooly
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Post by julieooly on Feb 4, 2019 21:20:12 GMT -5
Curves aren’t working well for me. This cab was gonna be so pretty. I have starbond will that help? It’ll still have a line.
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Post by stephan on Feb 4, 2019 21:38:31 GMT -5
Break it in half and using a hand grinder (like a dremel or foredom) grind one half as a yin and the other half as a yang and mate the two (?) That would be gorgeous.
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Post by victor1941 on Feb 4, 2019 21:42:41 GMT -5
I would try the Hyxtal first and if you are not satisfied then I would split it into two sections.
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Post by stephan on Feb 4, 2019 21:46:46 GMT -5
Curves aren’t working well for me. This cab was gonna be so pretty. I have starbond will that help? It’ll still have a line. I’m not a big fan of repairing or stabilizing with any sort of glue. I’ve done it, but it always bugs me afterwards. By the way, most are cyanoacrylates (same as superglue), with the biggest variable being viscosity. The thinner glues penetrate deeply into cracks and porous rocks. Thicker ones fill large voids or join actual broken pieces. All have nasty fumes. All will soften slowly in water, especially if it’s warm water.
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Post by stephan on Feb 4, 2019 22:03:05 GMT -5
Oh, and by the way, it’s ALWAYS the pretty cabs that break, undercut or show unhealed fractures. I’ve learned to accept that it’s God/the Universe/the rock reminding me that I shouldn’t get too attached to my ideas.
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Feb 4, 2019 22:48:28 GMT -5
Julie, two-part epoxies (like Hxtal) are different from the cyanoacrylates. Water will eventually cause the "super" glues to fail.
There will always be some sign of the crack no matter what you repair it with. Opalpyrexia's suggestion about creating a pendant with silver between the two halves of the stone would yield the best looking finished pendant.
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Post by stephan on Feb 4, 2019 22:51:37 GMT -5
My understanding is that the drawback of epoxies is that they will yellow.
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Post by 1dave on Feb 5, 2019 1:13:50 GMT -5
Make a shallow cut into the stone and replace with - gold, silver, turquoise . . .
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Post by agatemaggot on Feb 5, 2019 1:59:21 GMT -5
Get a gold or silver filling kit they use for the lettering on firearms and try that after final polish. If the cab gives up after removing from Dop you can deal with it however, if it doesan't , you won and have a real Smurffy cab with a cool looking lightning bolt running across the face . Havn't seen anyone use one of these filling kits on a stone but I guarantee it would look real cool. Why I never thought about it until now is beyond me. There was some fabricated stone a while back that sold fairly well that had silver and gold veins in it, was called some kind of Turquoise I believe.
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Feb 5, 2019 8:55:29 GMT -5
Hxtal (used by glass conservators) and a couple of other epoxies in recent years will not yellow.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 5, 2019 9:53:44 GMT -5
Hxtal (used by glass conservators) and a couple of other epoxies in recent years will not yellow. I have only used hxtal once. Do you know if it would be harder than the sonora sunrise, which is pretty soft.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 5, 2019 10:11:48 GMT -5
Hxtal (used by glass conservators) and a couple of other epoxies in recent years will not yellow. I have only used hxtal once. Do you know if it would be harder than the sonora sunrise, which is pretty soft. Yes, it will be. What I would do with the Sonora Sunrise is coat the whole stone with it and let it soak in. When dry it would all be about the same hardness.
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