lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Dec 26, 2020 5:58:30 GMT -5
Photo #87  Some of the most common material in my area (Central Massachusetts). Axanthic python in shed for photo. |
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Dec 27, 2020 8:30:41 GMT -5
Nice composition on the picture. The material reminds me of Yosemite NP. Lovely granite mountains there. Love the place.  When I used to go to New Hampshire, I mainly saw grey granite like in your picture. |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Dec 29, 2020 7:25:15 GMT -5
Photo #88  Top to Bottom: Banded Agate, Petrified Wood, Blue Aventurine, Chrysocolla, Amethyst. The Blue Aventurine was some of the first material I purchased for tumbling--due to the graininess I failed to rotary polish it (to my liking) several times in a row...so I shelved it for a few years. Only recently did I get back to it and tossed it in the vibe...and viola-done! |
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Post by lordsorril on Dec 31, 2020 5:39:18 GMT -5
Photo #89  Here is a one-off piece of material I found in a box of assorted petrified wood...looks very close to photos I've seen of petrified whale bone, but, I'm no expert. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Dec 31, 2020 23:54:45 GMT -5
Photo #89 Here is a one-off piece of material I found in a box of assorted petrified wood...looks very close to photos I've seen of petrified whale bone, but, I'm no expert. I think this is my favorite material I've seen you post. It really does have the appearance of whale bone or dino bone! Gorgeous. |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 2, 2021 6:51:30 GMT -5
Photo #90  Here are some random stones that I bought from Petco over a decade ago when I was building a half land/half water set up for my former pet cane toad. The stones were already river rounded, but, were dull colored and had chips missing. They tumbled poorly and chunks broke off constantly before I switched to significant amounts of cushioning. I lost about 30% mass on these to reach polish (which is a lot considering they were already relatively round). Note: Cane toads make decent pets, but, even the slightest exposure to the poison (even diluted in the water feature) would be extremely painful and 2nd degree burn my exposed skin. I am surprised since I see kids handling them all the time with bare hands and no apparent issue...  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 2, 2021 7:13:11 GMT -5
Photo #90 Here are some random stones that I bought from Petco over a decade ago when I was building a half land/half set up for my former pet cane toad. The stones were already river rounded, but, were dull colored and had chips missing. They tumbled poorly and chunks broke off constantly before I switched to significant amounts of cushioning. I lost about 30% mass on these to reach polish (which is a lot considering they were already relatively round). Note: Cane toads make decent pets, but, even the slightest exposure to the poison (even diluted in the water feature) would be extremely painful and 2nd degree burn my exposed skin. I am surprised since I see kids handling them all the time with bare hands and no apparent issue...
No thank you on the poison pet toad. LOL! A geriatric cat is bad enough. Found out he's been pissing in the house.  |
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Post by stephan on Jan 3, 2021 22:45:29 GMT -5
Photo #89 Here is a one-off piece of material I found in a box of assorted petrified wood...looks very close to photos I've seen of petrified whale bone, but, I'm no expert. Definitely looks like bone of some sort. |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 4, 2021 6:02:47 GMT -5
Photo #91  I liked the shape on this one and polished it prior to finishing grinding out the pits and rounding it out. I tumble and polish rocks for my own amusement: so I am my own customer.  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 4, 2021 8:11:14 GMT -5
Photo #91 I liked the shape on this one and polished it prior to finishing grinding out the pits and rounding it out. I tumble and polish rocks for my own amusement: so I am my own customer. That's where I'm at with mine. Someone told me on here if this is my "hobby" then there isn't anything I do or don't have to do with regards to it! I like having that mindset too! |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 6, 2021 6:01:40 GMT -5
Photo #92  The four pieces of yellow quartz were initially one large river rounded piece--it took a lot of effort to break it into four pieces because the chisel would deflect on the rounded edge. All of my pictures were a little blurry on this one: too much light reflection to get a clear shot. The snake is an Albino, without the Enchi gene the patterning is not as even as the one in Photo #64. |
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 8, 2021 5:54:58 GMT -5
Photo #93  Little brown nodules from the Southwest USA that tumble nicely, but, do not seem like pet. wood. I read a nice post by NevadaBill recently on agatized stromatolites Here |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 8, 2021 8:51:19 GMT -5
In photo 92, what are the four larger stones (tan and maroon) in the four corners? Inquiring minds (at least one) want to know. |
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 8, 2021 19:15:01 GMT -5
In photo 92, what are the four larger stones (tan and maroon) in the four corners? Inquiring minds (at least one) want to know. I'm not sure what that is: I do know that it comes from the SouthWest USA. I had a guy there that was happily sending me boxes and boxes of very rough rocks (all sorts) at just a little over the cost of shipping. It seems like an endless assortment of material from that area. |
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Post by holajonathan on Jan 9, 2021 20:14:56 GMT -5
Photo #87 Some of the most common material in my area (Central Massachusetts). Axanthic python in shed for photo. This is just plain unfair to those of us without snakes with menacing eyes. You have managed to turn some common rocks -- well polished, but nothing extraordinary about the rocks themselves -- into an amazing photo by putting a snake in their midst. Props for your photographic skills and props to that snake for participating. |
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Post by holajonathan on Jan 9, 2021 20:17:49 GMT -5
Photo #87 Some of the most common material in my area (Central Massachusetts). Axanthic python in shed for photo. As you can see from my profile photo, I have attempted to enlist my cats as photo props, but they think the rocks are toys and knock them onto the ground. Silly cats. |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 9, 2021 22:04:00 GMT -5
This is just plain unfair to those of us without snakes with menacing eyes. You have managed to turn some common rocks -- well polished, but nothing extraordinary about the rocks themselves -- into an amazing photo by putting a snake in their midst. Props for your photographic skills and props to that snake for participating. Thank you, yes, I think everyone serious about rock tumbling should have snakes so they can use them to take photos with their rocks.  I had also tried to encourage my gf to breed her Siamese Fighting Fish so I could take pictures of them swimming around the stones underwater, but, she was not interested. My cats have to examine anything I am holding (in case it is food)--makes them easy subjects. (You can tell this one is thrilled about the tiny amount of polish I got on this tumbled shale)  As much as I complain about my cats scratching me: I was breaking up a 15lb. chunk of Leland blue today wearing thick yellow landscape gloves and noticed after I finished that one of my gloves was entirely red...clotting powder and skin glue ftw. |
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Post by holajonathan on Jan 9, 2021 23:56:33 GMT -5
This is just plain unfair to those of us without snakes with menacing eyes. You have managed to turn some common rocks -- well polished, but nothing extraordinary about the rocks themselves -- into an amazing photo by putting a snake in their midst. Props for your photographic skills and props to that snake for participating. Thank you, yes, I think everyone serious about rock tumbling should have snakes so they can use them to take photos with their rocks. I had also tried to encourage my gf to breed her Siamese Fighting Fish so I could take pictures of them swimming around the stones underwater, but, she was not interested. My cats have to examine anything I am holding (in case it is food)--makes them easy subjects. (You can tell this one is thrilled about the tiny amount of polish I got on this tumbled shale) As much as I complain about my cats scratching me: I was breaking up a 15lb. chunk of Leland blue today wearing thick yellow landscape gloves and noticed after I finished that one of my gloves was entirely red...clotting powder and skin glue ftw. Be careful with open wounds around the cats. I am convinced that if they were a little bigger, or I were a little smaller, my cats would try to eat me. This has now gone way off topic... but I, too, play a game with my cats that I call "smelling rocks." I can go through a box of 100 rocks, and they seem to enjoy smelling every one of them. And while I'm off topic, as I read the words "her ... Siamese ... Fighting ..." (and I had noticed the cat at the bottom) I was really hoping that the next word was going to be "cats" -- as in, "her Siamese Fighting Cats." I got pretty excited for about a millisecond at the prospect of there being a breed of cat called a Siamese Fighting Cat. The word "fish" was a disappointment. |
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Post by stephan on Jan 10, 2021 0:39:45 GMT -5
Photo #93 Little brown nodules from the Southwest USA that tumble nicely, but, do not seem like pet. wood. I read a nice post by NevadaBill recently on agatized stromatolites Here Those look a lot like root beer agates found at Jalama Beach (Santa Barbara County). |
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lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 10, 2021 6:13:03 GMT -5
*Googles root beer agates*--You are absolutely right! I've never heard of them before-they look identical to what I have. I'm too busy taking things for granite out here in New England, but, I'm learning. |
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When I used to go to New Hampshire, I mainly saw grey granite like in your picture. 
I had also tried to encourage my gf to breed her Siamese Fighting Fish so I could take pictures of them swimming around the stones underwater, but, she was not interested.
