Wire Wrapping Projects - Batch #25 - (Jan 25, 2021)

I haven't been wrapping much wire lately.  I've been taking a break, and so these are from last year some time.

I have found that if I am not continuously cranking out wire wraps that if I take a month or two off and then come back that I am rusty and I can't imagine doing anything complicated or difficult.  I hope that's not the case when I start up again.  But it probably will be, again.

These were done when I was producing a couple a day though, so they are cleaner I think.

P201 - Gunlock Deep Red Oval - Some more of the Gunlock Agate.  It is hard to take a picture of this material.  The Agate is so shiny that it picks up and reflects that lights and corners of the light box that I use for the picture.  It almost looks like wavy cracks or imperfections.  And I can't actually get the camera to focus on the stone and that it has red, black, white, and clear material in it.

P202 - Columbia Dioptase Heart - I am starting to come up with different freeform shapes for my cabs.  Getting away from templates all together.  I would say that at this point last year I had not used a dop stick or template in over nine months. 

P203 - Big Sur Green Chert - Here is another one that is just being all reflecty.  I picked up the rock on the California coast in an area around Hearst Castle.  The area is known for green Nephrite, but this is Jasper / Chert.  Pretty green though.  But reflecty.  It actually has streaks of white running through it.  But you can't tell the difference between them and the reflections here.

P204 - Colorado River Agate Tear - To be honest I am not entirely positive that I picked this up on the banks of the Colorado.  I can find Agate like this there though.  But have you ever looked at a cab and forgotten where you picked it up at?  This happens to me once in a while for sure.  Maybe I should label them or something.  Hmm.

P205 - Variscite Copper Swirl - Some of the darkest green material that I got for Variscite is mixed in with a bunch of harder matrix.  I've posted a bunch in the past, but this is stabilized, and still has chunks of rock missing off the face.  I tried to cover it up with wire.  At any rate this is a less than perfect rock, but I am a less than perfect wrapper.  So it is a match.  I still like this stuff with the matrix attached.

P206 - Long Dioptase Streak - I am starting to run out of Dioptase cabs that I made in March of 2020.  I might have made over 50 or so, but I am running out of more interesting pieces.  Plus this was the time when I freeformed after sniffing glue (J/K)   So there is no geometric symmetry to it at all.  But I like the dark green.  It reminds me of Google Maps, looking down at a dark green river running through white plains or something.

P207 - Annivarsary Silver Charm - I like this material.  It may look like there are inclusions but it is clear all the way.  It just reflects a lot of the lights and stuff.  Some day I will figure out how to take a picture.  Have you ever used glue?  Not for huffing, but for actually adhering a cab to the stone.  I have, here.  This slippery guy it wrapped tightly, but no to tight to actually convince me that it won't come out.  So I dropped a dab of glue on the back at the very top.  Cheating, but effective.

P208 - Green Dioptase With Black - Ok, promise, no glue in this one.  I like this material though.  I've only got a few pieces of it.  And I was told finally that the black is Limonite.  It is a pretty cheerful cab and I think it looks good with green.  I can't explain the shape, other than I used to let the "rock talk to me, and tell me what it wants to be".  I need to return to geometrically pleasing shapes again I think.

Well, that's about it for now.  I need to spend the day making cabs now.  It's been a few weeks since I stood in front of the cabbing machine so this will be lots of fun.  Plus I got a brand new load of snappy mediocre type material to practice on.  So this will be a fun day!

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