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Post by gaetzchamp on Mar 19, 2005 18:43:40 GMT -5
Here are some picts of my wood after 3 weeks. I've separated the good from the bad and have started another batch in coarse and will graduate the best of the 2 loads to the next stage. Please throw your comments my way. I'd really like to get a good batch!!! All picts are dry....should've thrown in some wet for color. Thanks in advance for your tips. Pict 1 [a href="  "] [/a] Pict 2 [a href="  "] [/a] Pict 3 [a href="  "] [/a] Pict 4 [a href="  "] [/a] Thanks everyone, Gaetz |
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WyckedWyre
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Post by WyckedWyre on Mar 19, 2005 18:53:24 GMT -5
Beautiful already! Can't wait to see 'em finished...  S |
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Mar 19, 2005 19:01:12 GMT -5
Lookin' good, you've got some nice patterns and colours there! What's the source of the petrified wood?
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Post by krazydiamond on Mar 19, 2005 19:14:43 GMT -5
wow, nice stuff there, love the stripey one in the first pic. i've really come to appreciate pet wood more these days. can't wait to start a batch of Banjo's i got this week.
i think you are on the right track, Gaeter, my only suggestion is that if those are external fractures instead of internal ones (hard to tell from the photos) is to run them in a borax wash a few hours between cycles.
othe than that, you are gonna have one killer batch!
KD
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Post by gaetzchamp on Mar 19, 2005 19:24:08 GMT -5
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I've ran them in Borax for 48 hours. The white lines are very interesting to me in that they're not even perceptible to the touch. If I had a blindfold on, and felt them, I would not even know they were there. Since I've never done a batch of petrified wood before, I was wondering if this was a trait of the wood itself or if was introduced in the tumbling process??? Some of the lines are white veins of quartzy stuff others are just white lines in the rock.
Thanks,
Gaetz
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Post by Cher on Mar 19, 2005 20:15:08 GMT -5
Nice looking stuff Gaetz and that's ok that you didn't do them wet. It's easier to see how they are actually coming along in the stage, rather than seeing how they are going to look later. And on that note, it looks to me like they are coming along really nice. You are going to have an awesome load when they are done.
Cher
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Mar 19, 2005 20:22:19 GMT -5
Hey Gaetzchamp,
WOW ... nice looking Petrified Wood ... that ought to finish out gorgeously!
The white lines (unless they are part of the pattern of the wood grain) are most probably silica bands that filled various breaks in the decaying wood as it was being replaced with ? (depending on what kind of wood you have ...ie; jasperized, agatized, opalized, etc.).
As the minerals/silica from the soil started to replace the actual wood grains from the decaying wood and as the wood continued to decay ... there were small breaks or bands that sometimes have no definite pattern at all. The silica filled in the smaller breaks (or the lines you are seeing ...) and they appear as white lines or as crystaline bands within the wood grain. If you get a 10X loupe magnifying glass and take a close look at the white lines ... you will most probably see where this process has happened ... in a whole lot better details!
I love petrified wood like that ... it adds so much charachter to the finished pieces.
Enjoy and definitely keep us up to date with the progress of this batch!
John
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Post by llanago on Mar 19, 2005 20:25:56 GMT -5
OOWWWW! Those are going to be yummy when finished! Can't wait to see them!
llana
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Post by gaetzchamp on Mar 19, 2005 20:48:53 GMT -5
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Thanks for the informative description. I think that is whats going on here. I'll have to find an eyepiece and see this for myself.
Gaetz
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Post by sandsman1 on Mar 19, 2005 20:54:12 GMT -5
wow howed i miss them you got some real cool lookin wood there gaetz i realy like the two in the second pic on the right about middle with the lines the one standing up even looks like a piece of picture jasper very nice stuff
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Post by chassroc on Mar 20, 2005 12:36:15 GMT -5
Nice work Gaetz,
I love seeing all the different forms of PW. I would not have known that as wood by myself.
csroc
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Post by creativeminded on Mar 22, 2005 10:30:10 GMT -5
Got a great start on that pet wood. They are going to be beautiful when they are shined up.
Tami
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momma
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Post by momma on Mar 22, 2005 12:34:44 GMT -5
Nice wood. I wish mine would look like that. They were in course for 3 weeks and they look like they havent even been touched. They have red slurry so I know its tumbling, but they still look like I just broke them off. Can anyone tell me what I should do?
thanks momma
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