Post by stephan on Apr 28, 2019 22:14:20 GMT -5
Finally, after two or three months of being way to busy on weekends, I fainally had a chance to knock a few out:
DSC_1824_Four from today by Stephan Telm, on FlickrClockwise from UL: Coquina jasper (not a real jasper), MH Poppy jasper, unknown jasper, mariposite. Background is silver lace "onyx."
The coquina is a bugger. It's hard bits of snail shell (which are not, as I understand it, actually coquina) embedded in soft mudstone. Messy and it always seems to get plucked. It's like a reverse moss agate. I was careful. Shaped and cut the girdle on the 220, domed with a soft, nearly bald 280, gentle pressure... and still.... It's one of those where perfection isn't in the cards, but it's pretty, even with the plucked spots.
The PJ came from a small, rough chunk, not a slab. The way it turned out, it kind of reminds me of the black-suited (Venom-symbiote) version of Spiderman... with measles.
