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Post by miket on Mar 8, 2019 20:03:50 GMT -5
My son cut this today, hoping to reveal a full faced fairburn on the inside. There was a little but not as much as we would have liked. I'll do something with it but should we have cut it the other way? And how do you tell? Thanks. Pics of the outside and inside.     |
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Post by Peruano on Mar 9, 2019 7:52:57 GMT -5
Its just possible you are looking at the biggest area of the agate. I'd face polish what you see and be happy. If you had a slab saw you could continue cutting but with thin slabettes that could become pendants or other adornments. Have you ever considered gluing your small stone onto the end of a short 2x2 block of wood. Since the sides of the block are parallel and perpendicular, when you slide the rock into the blade using the block to orient your stone, your cuts should all be parallel and slabs prettier. Easier to control thickness and evenness of cut . . . maybe. I stub a lot of small stones that would be hard to cut if merely hand held or clamped without wood.
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Post by miket on Mar 9, 2019 8:07:50 GMT -5
Its just possible you are looking at the biggest area of the agate. I'd face polish what you see and be happy. If you had a slab saw you could continue cutting but with thin slabettes that could become pendants or other adornments. Have you ever considered gluing your small stone onto the end of a short 2x2 block of wood. Since the sides of the block are parallel and perpendicular, when you slide the rock into the blade using the block to orient your stone, your cuts should all be parallel and slabs prettier. Easier to control thickness and evenness of cut . . . maybe. I stub a lot of small stones that would be hard to cut if merely hand held or clamped without wood. Yep, he was in a hurry cutting this one. I'll probably clean it up and slab it some more when the garage warms up. Just trying to figure out if I should slice it in another direction I don't really have enough experience to tell. Sometimes I get lucky manofglass has told me about gluing stones to boards before cutting but I haven't done it yet |
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Post by miket on Mar 15, 2019 10:14:50 GMT -5
So I decided to go ahead and take some more cuts on this one. Found this inside, I think I might be able to cab it hopefully...  |
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