Post by Skipper on Feb 21, 2005 12:29:45 GMT -5
Hi All! Hope you like...
My mixed bag...Bottom right green rocks...I don't know what type they are, but definitely look like a conglomerate. Some parts took a better shine than others. Nice peice of banded agate in there as well.
Closeup. That's mook in the upper right. Interesting note: I don't by slabs any more...They are very difficult to polish well since the flat slides don't get as much contact with other rocks. The mook took 2 runs through the entire cycle to get a reasonable shine. I've got a bunch of rough mook in the tumblers now...should get a better finish.
There's also some golden moss agate. I think that's a "Agate Lake" agate in the middle (separate posting on that coming soon. To the left is some purple stone that I'm not sure of.
Here is another batch. Bottom right is wonderstone. Middle right is picturestone. The black stuff on the left is opalized agate. The rest I'm not sure of.
Last shot. Here is the rest of the opalized agate. I learned a lot with this stuff. I think I left it in coarse stage for 4 weeks and it still looked crappy. I threw about 75% of the rock out. There definitely is such a thing as poor grade rock.
My mixed bag...Bottom right green rocks...I don't know what type they are, but definitely look like a conglomerate. Some parts took a better shine than others. Nice peice of banded agate in there as well.
Closeup. That's mook in the upper right. Interesting note: I don't by slabs any more...They are very difficult to polish well since the flat slides don't get as much contact with other rocks. The mook took 2 runs through the entire cycle to get a reasonable shine. I've got a bunch of rough mook in the tumblers now...should get a better finish.
There's also some golden moss agate. I think that's a "Agate Lake" agate in the middle (separate posting on that coming soon. To the left is some purple stone that I'm not sure of.
Here is another batch. Bottom right is wonderstone. Middle right is picturestone. The black stuff on the left is opalized agate. The rest I'm not sure of.
Last shot. Here is the rest of the opalized agate. I learned a lot with this stuff. I think I left it in coarse stage for 4 weeks and it still looked crappy. I threw about 75% of the rock out. There definitely is such a thing as poor grade rock.
