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Post by miket on Aug 24, 2020 10:33:19 GMT -5
So my son gave me an end cut of an agate that he had cut and said I could work it. It had a little bit of fairburn pattern so I thought I'd see what I could come up with. It's been sitting in my garage for a while and I decided to do something so I slabbed it and was very pleasantly surprised! The first picture shows what was showing before I slabbed it, then what I saw after cutting it and turning it over. Plus a few pics of the cab in progress, of course it still needs polished. I swear if he would have found this in South Dakota I would call it a teepee... Thanks for looking!      |
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 24, 2020 19:04:02 GMT -5
Are you kidding me?!?
I'm taking everything I thought I'd learned over the last few months and throwing them out the window! LOL
I would've lost my last dime betting everything this was a teepee!
That's a gorgeous pattern...and to find it inside...what a pleasant surprise!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 24, 2020 19:17:20 GMT -5
That's going to be a sweet cab, Mike. Your son has a good eye.
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 24, 2020 19:26:02 GMT -5
That's going to be a sweet cab, Mike. Your son has a good eye. BTW - that's how Australian's say "hello"! (Say it with your best Crocodile Dundee accent...you'll get it!  ) |
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Post by miket on Aug 24, 2020 20:04:15 GMT -5
Are you kidding me?!? I'm taking everything I thought I'd learned over the last few months and throwing them out the window! LOL I would've lost my last dime betting everything this was a teepee! That's a gorgeous pattern...and to find it inside...what a pleasant surprise! A lot of people think that they're one in the same- I'm kind of leaning towards that theory myself. However, based on the location I guess it would be a fairburn. Someone smarter than me might say differently I suppose. It was nice to find for sure. We've cut a lot of rocks and found absolutely nothing. |
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Post by miket on Aug 24, 2020 20:05:19 GMT -5
That's going to be a sweet cab, Mike. Your son has a good eye. Yeah, I'll probably keep him around. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 24, 2020 21:53:15 GMT -5
Are you kidding me?!? I'm taking everything I thought I'd learned over the last few months and throwing them out the window! LOL I would've lost my last dime betting everything this was a teepee! That's a gorgeous pattern...and to find it inside...what a pleasant surprise! A lot of people think that they're one in the same- I'm kind of leaning towards that theory myself. However, based on the location I guess it would be a fairburn. Someone smarter than me might say differently I suppose. It was nice to find for sure. We've cut a lot of rocks and found absolutely nothing. I hope you didn't take that as I was saying it WASN'T a Fairburn. You know I'm no expert in this matter...I'm barely an amateur! From where this was found, I too would say it was a Fairburn. I was simply stating from a purely visual perspective, it has all the color characteristics as most of the teepees I've seen, studied, and/or drooled over.   |
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Post by pauls on Aug 25, 2020 1:47:52 GMT -5
That's going to be a sweet cab, Mike. Your son has a good eye. BTW - that's how Australian's say "hello"! (Say it with your best Crocodile Dundee accent...you'll get it! ) Nah It's Gudday or Gidday. Really if you say it properly it's just Gday, nothing between the G and day. If it was an Englishman it would be "Good Day to you my good man." we're not that formal |
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Post by miket on Aug 25, 2020 11:15:45 GMT -5
A lot of people think that they're one in the same- I'm kind of leaning towards that theory myself. However, based on the location I guess it would be a fairburn. Someone smarter than me might say differently I suppose. It was nice to find for sure. We've cut a lot of rocks and found absolutely nothing. I hope you didn't take that as I was saying it WASN'T a Fairburn. You know I'm no expert in this matter...I'm barely an amateur! From where this was found, I too would say it was a Fairburn. I was simply stating from a purely visual perspective, it has all the color characteristics as most of the teepees I've seen, studied, and/or drooled over. No, not at all, I completely agree with you on this subject sir! If I were to take it up to Teepee Canyon and drop it on the ground I think someone would be hard-pressed not to call it a teepee. And I've found teepees that I could bring back to Nebraska and drop in the prairie that someone would call a fairburn if they were to come across them. |
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