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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 14:15:44 GMT -5
I recently purchased online a slab of West Coast Picasso Jasper. I had difficulty perceiving the slab as flat because of the riot of patterns and values (lights and darks). Its photos looked like it was some sort of severely 3D-fractured surface. Of course, once in hand, I saw that it was smoothly finished. But the patterns and values continued to mess with my mind as I was cutting. That's also true for the finished cabs to a lesser degree. I kept second guessing symmetry as I was cutting because of the patterns — even the photographs bug me. Picasso 1
Picasso 2
Picasso 3
Blue-Green Mossy Agate — From a slab from a box that was donated to my local club from an estate sale.
"Driveway Rock" — In hand, this Dunite looks more green. You can see at least two metallic inclusions.
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Post by miket on Aug 21, 2019 14:22:36 GMT -5
That Picasso is amazing, I can see how it messed with your mind...I love the cabs!
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Post by MsAli on Aug 21, 2019 15:36:09 GMT -5
Love that Picasso. It reminds me of camouflage
The 3rd cab is especially killer
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Post by Tommy on Aug 21, 2019 16:21:25 GMT -5
Nice cabs! I love working with that WC Piccaso jasper material.
Regarding the blue/green moss - is the color correct on your photo? The design looks exactly like some material that I have but it's distinctive blue inside the agate and dark blue green where the moss emerges from the agate.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 16:22:52 GMT -5
That Picasso is amazing, I can see how it messed with your mind...I love the cabs!
Thank you. It's hard to see the forest when a couple of trees grab your attention!
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Post by lpl on Aug 21, 2019 16:42:35 GMT -5
Love the Picasso! The patterns are amazing and the 3-D effect is great.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 21, 2019 17:26:11 GMT -5
That Picasso is great.
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Post by julieooly on Aug 21, 2019 17:41:00 GMT -5
Beautiful, do you have a template for Picasso #2 shape? I'd love to know where I can get one.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 21, 2019 18:30:46 GMT -5
Lovely stones! That Picasso is especially killer. I would have been cross-eyed trying to cab that.  |
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Post by wigglinrocks on Aug 21, 2019 18:33:41 GMT -5
Very nice work on very nice material .
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Post by wigglinrocks on Aug 21, 2019 18:35:19 GMT -5
It reminds me of camouflage . Me too . RealTree or MossyOak ? |
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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 19:45:30 GMT -5
Regarding the blue/green moss - is the color correct on your photo? The design looks exactly like some material that I have but it's distinctive blue inside the agate and dark blue green where the moss emerges from the agate.
Your description matches the agate cab very well. Close examination under a halogen light the moss that breaks the cab surface is a dark blue-green. Within the cab I would call it a light green-blue, but for a casual view it reads light blue.
Do you know where your stock originated?
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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 19:51:20 GMT -5
Beautiful, do you have a template for Picasso #2 shape? I'd love to know where I can get one.
I don't, Julie, but I can make a template image for you. I'll do that and post it here. I created the shape primarily because I wanted to minimize waste and couldn't come up any other strategy for dealing with that portion of the slab.
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Post by toiv0 on Aug 21, 2019 20:19:58 GMT -5
Never seen anything like the WC Picasso, I love it but the green moss is cool also. I want some of each and then I want to rock hound your driveway.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 21:26:39 GMT -5
Never seen anything like the WC Picasso, I love it but the green moss is cool also. I want some of each and then I want to rock hound your driveway.
If you're ever out this way, Billy, we'll grab my shovels and start diggin'.
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Post by opalpyrexia on Aug 21, 2019 21:31:41 GMT -5
Beautiful, do you have a template for Picasso #2 shape? I'd love to know where I can get one. I don't, Julie, but I can make a template image for you. I'll do that and post it here. I created the shape primarily because I wanted to minimize waste and couldn't come up any other strategy for dealing with that portion of the slab.
The outline on the left is a tracing of the cab along with two thinner versions. I would call it a knife-blade shape. |
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Post by MsAli on Aug 21, 2019 21:57:54 GMT -5
It reminds me of camouflage . Me too . RealTree or MossyOak ? Oh for sure Mossy Oak |
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Post by julieooly on Aug 22, 2019 3:44:53 GMT -5
Thank you Opal!!
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 22, 2019 5:47:37 GMT -5
I really like cutting WC Picasso, too. Your cabs represent some of the best patterns and colors.  Love the moss. At first, I thought you were going to say Tommy sent it to you. He had some exactly the same. Beautiful stuff. |
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Post by Tommy on Aug 22, 2019 9:48:12 GMT -5
Do you know where your stock originated? I was kind of hoping you knew haha. I was told by a rockhound that it was absolutely positively from the Crooked River region in Oregon but I don't know personally - I bought it at an estate sale. It was (and is) too big for my saw vice but I was able to whack off a corner and have made a dozen or so cabs from it - and given a little bit away here and there.   |
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