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Post by cookie3rocks on Mar 4, 2005 23:42:14 GMT -5
Photo bucket was giving me hell downloading pics (I've been at it for 2 hours now) but here's what I can show you of the survivors of Big Red's first litter. The lakers Cher sent me  What I cut that made it  Do-Overs  I still have the pretty pieces others sent me, but Photo Bucket is giving me a hard time so I will post them tommorrow. Not a complete loss. After burnishing, some were more salvagable than others ;D cookie |
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Post by Cher on Mar 4, 2005 23:51:21 GMT -5
You got a fair amount that made it ok. The lakers look pretty beat up, but toss them back in coarse and let them go for awile, they still need shaping anyway so some of the smaller fractures might come out.
OR ... take your dremel to them. Clean them up the best you can and send them into 120/200. I'm not so sure about those two on the left, what's on the other side? Is there any banding on them, they don't really look like lakers and am wondering if they got mixed up with something else you had in there. That red/white one on the right is gorgeous.
Cher
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Post by Banjocreek on Mar 5, 2005 1:14:25 GMT -5
You have a very salvagable lot, I'd say especially those that you cut.
What are some of those?
The patterns are wonderful especially the one that looks like a leopards coat or something on the bottom, and the five with similar patterns, I've neve seen before that I know of. What are they?
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Post by stoner on Mar 5, 2005 3:30:40 GMT -5
Hey Cookie. Those all look pretty good. You did good for your first rotary tumble. Show us the ones that didn't make it, maybe you're just being too hard on yourself.
Ed
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Post by phoenix1647 on Mar 5, 2005 8:39:58 GMT -5
Those look good to me cookie...would not throw any of those away. ..and remember just one thing..
ya better watch out....ya better not cry.....ya better not pout I'm tellin' ya why.....Santa Claus is commin' to town....
Pho
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Post by krazydiamond on Mar 5, 2005 9:01:22 GMT -5
not a total loss by a long way, Cookie! some of the stuff you cut looks quite ready to be jewelry. i agree with Cher on the Lakers, those are tough ol' stones and like many weeks in the coarse grit.
KD
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Post by creativeminded on Mar 5, 2005 10:29:58 GMT -5
I think they look great.
Tami
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Post by 69beeper on Mar 5, 2005 13:18:00 GMT -5
Hey those turned out GREAT!! ...  Curious, how does the rest of the batch look (non-survivors)? Post pics if you have them.. Those same type fractures (top pic, rt) show up sometimes on the agate I tumble in my #3 barrels. Bummer when it happens! I don't know if they are already there and just show up later or if something is actually causing them to fracture while tumbling? I'm thinking the latter.. Jimmy |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Mar 5, 2005 15:46:07 GMT -5
cookie you have some great ones there! i love the preforms! and i'd like to know what all you have in there?
kim
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Post by cookie3rocks on Mar 5, 2005 20:22:34 GMT -5
Ok, let me see if I can remember what this all is:
The red and gold cut ip is striped jasper. It really almost no shine, but the shapes are nice. Some of the pre cut is actually some little leftovers Bearcreek sent me a while ago. Agates and petrified algae. Some is crazt lace agate that was part of the reason I burned up my saw, blue lace agate, and the leopord skin looking thing on the bottom, again, bearcreek, I have no idea. I like the way it finished, thou, shinet on the flat spots, dull on the indentions. Visually pleasing, technecly bad tumblin. The bottom pick is crazy lace, red jasper, pigeon blood jasper, flint, local quartz, blue lace agate and clear quartz.
Cher, the 2 lakers on the left are lakers, but thier best sides took a beating. They are banded and translucent, tho.
This is about 1/3. Another third was quartz and amethyst that got "scuffed up". The other third were some California local stuf from Cal That was mostly fill. They aren't too bad, really. Some of them can go another run and some are destined to be fill.
I'm happier with these than I thought. Some day I WILL conquer the elusive quartz and amethyst, By the Gods!
cookie
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Post by rockyraccoon on Mar 5, 2005 20:32:07 GMT -5
dinosaur bone? 2nd pic bottom?
kim
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Post by stefan on Mar 5, 2005 20:33:27 GMT -5
Cookie- first they all look great- Now I am poed- I removed my stuff from burnishing this AM and I was thrilled with it- Then I see you coming down on all that great stuff and I lok at mine and it does not look half as good  I would post some pics but photobucket was locked up when I tried (started the download- went and cooked some chops over the fire, ate dinner and played a game of Yatzee (lost) And still nothing- Oh well- I think your being a bit hard on yourself! |
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Post by krazydiamond on Mar 5, 2005 20:36:24 GMT -5
i think you have to get high quality amethyst to get some that doesn't have a lot of fractures. quartz too. especially the Rose quartz. i almost gave up on tumbling after my first batch, which was amethyst, citrine, rose quartz and adventurine, all of the most fracturable stuff out there!! but i was still flushed when it all went throught the cycles and i produced my first batch!
those little babies have been do overs for forever now. except the adventurine. and in the end that will end up as filler too one day.
i have my first buyer of my tumbled stones email me last week. i put together 50 of selected nice ones (jewelry quality). she is starting to wire wrap and needed some undrilled.
i've seen tumbled rock go for anyhere between 8-15 bucks a pound, but not sure about the quality. these were all good stones, so i packed up 50 units (about 13 ounces) and was going to tell her 50 cents a piece or 20 bucks for the whole bag..
is that fair??
KD
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Post by stefan on Mar 5, 2005 21:03:31 GMT -5
Sounds more than fair! If you check out those display bins of tumbled stones they have everywhere they get like $2.00 a stone!
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Post by cookie3rocks on Mar 5, 2005 22:10:28 GMT -5
I have no clue, KD, but go for it. It's wonderful when someone has an appreciation of what you have done and is willing pay you for it. Get snobby latter, when it matters ;D ;D ;D Were it not for the scuffed edges, I would be very happy with the amethyst and quartz. I just don't understand completely what caused it.  cookie |
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Post by cookie3rocks on Mar 5, 2005 22:22:02 GMT -5
Pigeon blood jasper, crazy lace, and local quartz  PhotoBucket is working my last nerve. cookie |
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Post by phoenix1647 on Mar 6, 2005 8:36:14 GMT -5
Coolie..perhaps you should try a load of quartz by itself?...I have run quartz and did real good with it..love the way the clear and smoky quartz turns out..and the milky (solid white quartz) comes out nice too....so smooth and pleasing to the eye..makes great necklace or bracelette material...or just put some in a glass bowl with some small candles....
See..now ya got me going again....
Pho
P.S. I saw Santa snealing around you house and ran him off with my shotgun....his reindeer were messing up your lawn too....
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Post by stefan on Mar 6, 2005 11:50:53 GMT -5
Hey cookie- I think that stuff looks great too- but I did notice the chips- Seems that Big red like to beat the cra* out of your stones huh? What a bummer- But all of it looks salvagable! Still looks better than my stuff! I have some Ocean Jasper just started and after course there is gonna be cushion (pellets) in every cycle! I think that is where Big red had his fun- I mean that is a long fall from the top of the barrel to the bottom! My guess is that the fractures and such started in 120/220 and just deepened in every progressive cycle!
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Post by krazydiamond on Mar 6, 2005 19:35:36 GMT -5
i got some pigeon blood stuff that has been running for AGES. it's pretty, but it's tough and gnarly. what i am planning for it after it goes through anothe cycle of rough (darn stuff has been in that cycle for 4 weeks!!!) is to slice it and tumble it into submission after that!!
it WILL be pretty eventualy. same thing i'm gonna have to do with the bubble gum agate. starting to show some nice color, but gonna have to get processd to be useful.
plowed 6 inches of heavy snow today, come on SPRING!
KD
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Post by stefan on Mar 7, 2005 11:12:31 GMT -5
KD LMAO- Tumble it into submission-- I just started some Ocean Jasper and tossed in a couple of bubblegums to see what would happen!
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I would post some pics but photobucket was locked up when I tried (started the download- went and cooked some chops over the fire, ate dinner and played a game of Yatzee (lost) And still nothing- Oh well- I think your being a bit hard on yourself!
