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Post by woodman on Mar 14, 2019 21:04:21 GMT -5
Nice Triple Richardson's Ranch egg.  |
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Post by stephan on Mar 14, 2019 22:16:12 GMT -5
Amazing.
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Post by woodman on Mar 15, 2019 13:07:16 GMT -5
It is really not cut right to show water lines but this is the only way I could geet all three eggs in one cut. I do lie cutting with the lines sometimes. Gives it a different look from a normal water line egg.
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Post by Kai on Mar 15, 2019 16:25:54 GMT -5
Wow, stunning!
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 15, 2019 16:36:43 GMT -5
I like it better than waterline. Pretty cool that it's a triple.
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 15, 2019 17:41:33 GMT -5
Bob, do doubles or triples ever have aligned patterns? I would expect the water lines to be aligned, but what about the rest of the structure? I notice the center one in your photo has that classic star shape, but the outer ones seem different.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 15, 2019 20:05:23 GMT -5
A 3-bagger! That's awesome.  |
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Post by woodman on Mar 15, 2019 21:25:14 GMT -5
Bob, do doubles or triples ever have aligned patterns? I would expect the water lines to be aligned, but what about the rest of the structure? I notice the center one in your photo has that classic star shape, but the outer ones seem different. On this one you have to remember that it is cut 90 degrees from what SOME call the right way. I have seem then with aligned water lines and triples where they are not aligned at all. kind of a crap shoot. I likes ones like this one where each egg is different. I may take half and recut and see what the lines look like. |
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Post by HankRocks on Mar 16, 2019 8:50:19 GMT -5
Bob, do doubles or triples ever have aligned patterns? I would expect the water lines to be aligned, but what about the rest of the structure? I notice the center one in your photo has that classic star shape, but the outer ones seem different. On this one you have to remember that it is cut 90 degrees from what SOME call the right way. I have seem then with aligned water lines and triples where they are not aligned at all. kind of a crap shoot. I likes ones like this one where each egg is different. I may take half and recut and see what the lines look like. It's interesting that some Thundereggs(geodes) have clues on the outside surface as to how the rock laid in the formation when it formed. Usually any sort of ridge or line on the outside is put down in a horizontal manner. Of coarse that's assuming that the whole area was not tilted at some point during formation. I remember reading something from the Geode Kid that he marked his Thndereggs as he mined them to indicate horizontal plane and he always tried to cut 90 degrees to that marked plane. He did mention that it was not foolproof as the formation could have been tilted. Unless there is a water-line pattern and there is a solid concentric formation I suppose it really does not matter. Then there are those geodes that really don't matter how they are cut, Choyas come to mind. I have never seen a water-line in a Choyas. Brazillians seem to have a decent percentage with a waterline. I always inspect the outside surface for some indication. I do have a triple Choya that I have been waiting to cut. It seems that it going to be solids from the weight. I can always dream that it will be a triple hollow, with a touch of amethyst, hey! a fellow gotta dream!! |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 16, 2019 9:49:40 GMT -5
Nice Triple! Yes, sometimes it's fun to think outside the box and make a different angle cut... Surprises ya', what can come from it too...
You nailed that one!
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 16, 2019 10:36:23 GMT -5
Bob, do doubles or triples ever have aligned patterns? I would expect the water lines to be aligned, but what about the rest of the structure? I notice the center one in your photo has that classic star shape, but the outer ones seem different. On this one you have to remember that it is cut 90 degrees from what SOME call the right way. I have seem then with aligned water lines and triples where they are not aligned at all. kind of a crap shoot. I likes ones like this one where each egg is different. I may take half and recut and see what the lines look like. I wonder what a new cut that is perpendicular to your last cut would look like on one of them. I'd hate to muck up how nice it already is though. |
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Post by pauls on Mar 16, 2019 20:01:07 GMT -5
It amazes me how often Agates that are so physically close are completely different.
When I was digging at Agate Creek Queensland last year I dug three monster agates about football size in a row, they were obviously attached and still in situ in the basalt, you would expect them all to be the same yet one had a mass of Quartz crystals, the next was a waterline with very coarse banding and the last was a nice rich red agate on top of very fine waterline. go figure.
They were all fractured and came out in pieces sadly.
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Post by woodman on Mar 18, 2019 18:05:25 GMT -5
  here is a cut on half. rotated it 90 degrees, not a whole lot of difference in this one. I was expecting water lines. hard to tell which photo is the original cut. |
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 19, 2019 20:35:19 GMT -5
woodman, in the bottom photo what are those parallel lines running from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock? They're not saw marks are they? I also notice there's a bit of a chevron pattern hiding in there?
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Post by woodman on Mar 19, 2019 21:47:28 GMT -5
woodman , in the bottom photo what are those parallel lines running from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock? They're not saw marks are they? I also notice there's a bit of a chevron pattern hiding in there? They are saw marks, i was sharpening the blade and got these marks, the others are water lines. when i finished sharpening it, it was cutting a lot smoother. |
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Post by woodman on Apr 7, 2019 18:24:19 GMT -5
Got this one off the polisher today  ! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 18:28:00 GMT -5
Always striking how the cores even of joined t-eggs can be so different inside. Mom & child -or- embryonic Siamese chickens?
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Post by woodman on Apr 11, 2019 12:06:52 GMT -5
Got this Richardson's Ranch egg cut yesterday.  |
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Post by woodman on Apr 11, 2019 20:58:44 GMT -5
Today's egg, another unknown  Richardson's |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 21:17:20 GMT -5
Underwater cave - gorgeous.
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