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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 11, 2019 21:42:21 GMT -5
 So sorry that happened to you. If it's any consolation, it's happened to every single one of us.
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 9:46:29 GMT -5
what type of rock some sort of obsidian type derivative? Walt informed me that it is tillite. It had some great colors... |
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 9:48:23 GMT -5
What you ended up with looks like an ancient artifact! Very clever : ) Now you just need a story to go with it. Nevertheless, I'm sorry it happened this way. Eh, easy come easy go as they say. Really not a huge deal. But I am having fun with this thread.  |
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 9:50:14 GMT -5
Well, the first order of business is to find someone to blame. I hope you didn't neglect this important step.  Good one! Of course. I blamed myself. Too hard on the poor thing... But I learned my lesson. Hopefully. |
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 9:53:13 GMT -5
So sorry that happened to you. If it's any consolation, it's happened to every single one of us. It's alright. It actually is consoling, I thought I just did something wrong. Maybe too aggressive, made the edges too thin, something. I'll make more, though- not going to let a little setback stop me! However, the experience has given me respect for those of you who cab all of the time with excellent results.  |
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Post by Tommy on Mar 12, 2019 11:01:55 GMT -5
It does happen to all of us. Last week I broke a gorgeous blue moss agate cab - arguably one of the nicest cabs I've ever yielded out of a material that is fairly difficult to work with. I still do not know if I just missed a pre-existing crack - the material is notorious (in my own mind) for hiding fractures along pattern lines - or if it was operator error and I overheated it on the final polish stage. I'm leaning towards a combination of both because it held up beautifully and I never noticed the crack until after the white polish got into it and at that point the cab came apart easily with finger pressure. I didn't take any pictures of it but here are a couple of stills from an instagram video.   |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 12, 2019 11:11:26 GMT -5
Damn, Tommy! That was heart breaking, too.  |
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Post by Tommy on Mar 12, 2019 11:18:50 GMT -5
Damn, Tommy! That was heart breaking, too. Yeah I'm still kicking myself for not stopping as soon as I noticed the crack and using Hxtal on it. Instead I had to fart around with it and of course it broke easily. |
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 12:50:43 GMT -5
Damn, Tommy ! That was heart breaking, too. Yeah I'm still kicking myself for not stopping as soon as I noticed the crack and using Hxtal on it. Instead I had to fart around with it and of course it broke easily. Dang that was beautiful... Did you salvage anything? |
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Post by Tommy on Mar 12, 2019 13:01:26 GMT -5
Did you salvage anything? Nope. It went straight to the island of lost cabs. |
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2019 17:37:32 GMT -5
Did you salvage anything? Nope. It went straight to the island of lost cabs. Poor little guy...😠|
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Post by Tommy on Mar 12, 2019 20:10:37 GMT -5
Nope. It went straight to the island of lost cabs. Poor little guy...😠Mission accomplished... I helped you forget about your troubles and feel sorry for mine instead Seriously though, it happens more than I'd care to admit. It's why I'm super careful (paranoid) to bend and twist and sometimes even drop a piece before I start grinding on it. If it is going to break I want it to happen in my hand and not when it's gotten to looking all purty. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 12, 2019 20:22:34 GMT -5
So sorry that happened to you. If it's any consolation, it's happened to every single one of us. It's alright. It actually is consoling, I thought I just did something wrong. Maybe too aggressive, made the edges too thin, something. I'll make more, though- not going to let a little setback stop me! However, the experience has given me respect for those of you who cab all of the time with excellent results.  We just don't show the ones that got fubared, is all (exception Tommy). |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 12, 2019 20:23:59 GMT -5
Tommy - oh man, oh man, oh man. That was gorgeous. 
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Post by miket on Mar 13, 2019 9:47:51 GMT -5
Mission accomplished... I helped you forget about your troubles and feel sorry for mine instead  Seriously though, it happens more than I'd care to admit. It's why I'm super careful (paranoid) to bend and twist and sometimes even drop a piece before I start grinding on it. If it is going to break I want it to happen in my hand and not when it's gotten to looking all purty. Thank you sir! I may have to pay more attention the deeper I get into this. Which I plan on... |
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Post by fernwood on Mar 14, 2019 5:28:00 GMT -5
Cabbing with a Dremel can be quite challenging. The braver I get, the more oops occur.
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Post by miket on Mar 15, 2019 9:41:53 GMT -5
Cabbing with a Dremel can be quite challenging. The braver I get, the more oops occur. You're right about that. Yesterday I was using it on a really cool piece of jasper that I thought would make a nice cab. Then, oops, there went one piece. Some more dremeling to fix that, some more to shape it... Then another chunk came off. It went in the trash. It's ok, though, I'm learning from it all. |
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So sorry that happened to you. If it's any consolation, it's happened to every single one of us.
