Any experience with Barian Celestine from England?

julieooly Cave Dweller Member since October 2018 Posts: 721	Any experience with Barian Celestine from England? May 20, 2019 11:57:11 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by julieooly on May 20, 2019 11:57:11 GMT -5 Isn't this a pretty peach color! Has anyone worked with it before? The seller described it as a bit brittle. As always, design input welcome, I can't decide on the shape. It's 9mm thick.
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rockjunquie Global Moderator Member since March 2012 Posts: 35,020	Any experience with Barian Celestine from England? May 20, 2019 12:27:14 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockjunquie on May 20, 2019 12:27:14 GMT -5 Also just called barite. Very soft, doesn't usually polish well.

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Any experience with Barian Celestine from England? May 20, 2019 12:38:12 GMT -5 Drummond Island Rocks, rockjunquie, and 1 more like this

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Post by Tommy on May 20, 2019 12:38:12 GMT -5

Yes I have some of that somewhere. As Tela said it also goes by English Barite which is how I bought it and have sold a couple of cabs from it.

It's interesting stuff, but I did not find it to be brittle. It's heavy for its size and it takes kind of a medium high fibrous shine with orange peeling.

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Any experience with Barian Celestine from England? May 20, 2019 15:54:39 GMT -5 julieooly likes this

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May 20, 2019 12:38:12 GMT -5 Tommy said:

Yes I have some of that somewhere. As Tela said it also goes by English Barite which is how I bought it and have sold a couple of cabs from it.

It's interesting stuff, but I did not find it to be brittle. It's heavy for its size and it takes kind of a medium high fibrous shine with orange peeling.

I never really got orange peel in mine, but the fibers seemed to want to separate.

I wouldn't call it brittle, either.

I didn't like it enough to cab the rest of it. The polish was dependent on which part of the slab it was. I had one do alright, the rest were ho hum.

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Any experience with Barian Celestine from England? May 20, 2019 18:34:46 GMT -5 julieooly likes this

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May 20, 2019 15:54:39 GMT -5 rockjunquie said:

I never really got orange peel in mine, but the fibers seemed to want to separate.

I wouldn't call it brittle, either.

I didn't like it enough to cab the rest of it. The polish was dependent on which part of the slab it was. I had one do alright, the rest were ho hum.

I agree entirely with your assessment - maybe it wasn't orange peel - just fibers separating. I've seen this on other materials too. After a couple of attempts to make a happy place with it I gave up and tossed it in a drawer somewhere.

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