Benathema
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God chased me down and made sure I knew He was real June 20, 2022. I've been on a Divine Mission.
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Post by Benathema on Apr 14, 2021 22:59:29 GMT -5
I found this online a couple months ago and snagged the image. Haven't been able to find it again and reverse image lookup isn't finding it. Not sure how legit it is, but based on the conversation, it seems possible.  |
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Post by Bob on Apr 14, 2021 23:38:54 GMT -5
Wow! I can't decide if I think it's ugly or I like it. But I would tumble it!
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 15, 2021 5:12:08 GMT -5
I found this online a couple months ago and snagged the image. Haven't been able to find it again and reverse image lookup isn't finding it. Not sure how legit it is, but based on the conversation, it seems possible. Let see if time and weather permit me to pull out a few pieces I have of this type of material, and take a few pictures. I believe it's called variegated Tiger Eye. Did make some pendant stones out of some slabs of the same material. The one piece I have is just over 13 pounds. Just got to find it. The 3 center ones are variegated, once again apologies for picture quality that does not quite capture how they really appear. The quality control department here at home decided that she needed them!!  IMG_1914 by Findrocks, on Flickr |
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 15, 2021 8:22:05 GMT -5
Ok, found the right bucket with the variegated material. I have almost 500 pounds(couldn't pass up the deal) of Tiger Eye so the right bucket can be a bit of a chore. Pulled out 3 larger pieces including the 13 pounder. Also found a nice shaped 2 pounder that looks to be fracture free which makes it a strong candidate for the next "Big Tumble". If the sun ever comes out I will get some pictures posted. (off topic rant)It's ironic to me that I used to take great pictures with my old 35mm film camera, an Olympus, and struggle with the digital cameras. The Olympus had the light meter through the view-finder and manual focus and was so easy to use. Dial back the f-stop to just slightly under-expose and I could get the right picture almost every time. The danged digital cameras are so over-complicated that I am never sure what's going on. I know it can't be the operator!!  |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Apr 15, 2021 9:01:53 GMT -5
I found this online a couple months ago and snagged the image. Haven't been able to find it again and reverse image lookup isn't finding it. Not sure how legit it is, but based on the conversation, it seems possible. I found what I think is the original page this was posted on: line.17qq.com/articles/ndmhoohlv.htmlThe photo you've got there is at the bottom of the page. The website is long on photos, but short on information. Weights of individual rocks, but no prices listed or provisions for purchasing?? Here's a link to a very informative blog about tiger's eye. blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/tiger-s-eye-a-deceptive-delight/This last article is from 2015, so a few broken photo links. Still very good info, and on a Scientific American blog post, no less. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 15, 2021 9:34:13 GMT -5
I found this online a couple months ago and snagged the image. Haven't been able to find it again and reverse image lookup isn't finding it. Not sure how legit it is, but based on the conversation, it seems possible. I found what I think is the original page this was posted on: line.17qq.com/articles/ndmhoohlv.htmlThe photo you've got there is at the bottom of the page. The website is long on photos, but short on information. Weights of individual rocks, but no prices listed or provisions for purchasing?? Here's a link to a very informative blog about tiger's eye. blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/tiger-s-eye-a-deceptive-delight/This last article is from 2015, so a few broken photo links. Still very good info, and on a Scientific American blog post, no less. I think they just used pictures from other websites on this page. This photo was credited to J2B2 who used to sell on Ebay. I bought a few things from him in the past. He's no longer on Ebay and we didn't see him in Quartzsite 2 years ago when we were there. |
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Post by Bob on Apr 15, 2021 12:13:05 GMT -5
Although I've yet to try it, one person in this forum said rocks are hard to photograph with these digital cameras in the autofocus setting and that it we set the camera to manual focus things will get better. I've been meaning to try it but haven't yet. I sure understand your frustration. The more I see that photo of that strange tiger eye the more it's starting to look beautiful to me instead of ugly. Weird how impressions can change. If that was your rock, I think I was ask you if you forgot that you had spilled some blood on it.
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lparsons
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Post by lparsons on Apr 15, 2021 14:25:16 GMT -5
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 15, 2021 14:25:38 GMT -5
Ok, here's the picture of the variegated Tiger Eye I mentioned earlier. The 13 pound piece is sitting on top of the 2 pound "Big Tumble" piece. Have a few more pieces in the 4 to 5 pound range.  IMG_2800 by Findrocks, on Flickr |
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Brian
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Post by Brian on Apr 15, 2021 14:33:45 GMT -5
Those are cool HankRocks! I hope that one makes it into the large tumbles sooner rather than later! |
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lparsons
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Post by lparsons on Apr 15, 2021 14:34:12 GMT -5
I believe the thing I like most about the tiger eye is that, (to me) it has a metallic coppery shine to it. The batch I got is supposed to be from South Africa and is heat treated.
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lparsons
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Post by lparsons on Apr 15, 2021 14:35:59 GMT -5
@hankrocks, those are amazing! 😳
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 15, 2021 14:38:52 GMT -5
Those are cool HankRocks ! I hope that one makes it into the large tumbles sooner rather than later! It will be next, after the big tumble petrified wood has finished it's journey as it's currently half way through 220. Unfortunately it will need to do the polish run in the Model B as I think it's too big to polish effectively in the UV-18. |
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Benathema
has rocks in the head
God chased me down and made sure I knew He was real June 20, 2022. I've been on a Divine Mission.
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Post by Benathema on Apr 15, 2021 17:25:28 GMT -5
Dueling large tigers eye banjos  |
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Post by Bob on Apr 15, 2021 23:34:26 GMT -5
 . In 220 now  |
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Post by Bob on Apr 16, 2021 15:41:57 GMT -5
That piece has been in process about 6 months, and is half the size it began. You can't see it in the photo, but there are several areas in it that look like baked clay with shrinkage cracks. These just keep going and going w/o end and really bugs me. I may try soaking it in some diluted epoxy this weekend. Of maybe 20 pieces or red tiger eye to begin with, I think only 3 have not been discarded. 2 I think are close to polish stage. It is beautiful and satiny at certain angles.
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treadledad
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Post by treadledad on Apr 19, 2021 12:45:14 GMT -5
I ran into similar problems with the red tiger's eye that I tumbled, baked clay and cracks. Very few decent pieces out of a 5 lb lot. I've had no trouble with the gold tiger's eye I've tumbled in the past.
I have 5 lbs of the blue waiting in que but I've been putting it off after the terrible results I got from the red.
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 19, 2021 12:57:41 GMT -5
I ran into similar problems with the red tiger's eye that I tumbled, baked clay and cracks. Very few decent pieces out of a 5 lb lot. I've had no trouble with the gold tiger's eye I've tumbled in the past. I have 5 lbs of the blue waiting in que but I've been putting it off after the terrible results I got from the red. The variegated Tiger Eye Pendants I tumbled held up very well. Not sure that the "Blue" and the "Variegated" Tiger Eye are considered the same. The large piece of Variegated I posted earlier is very solid with hardly any fracturing. I would suspect that most material that has been heat treated would suffer from increased fracturing. I believe that coral may be the exception to this. |
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Post by Peruano on Apr 19, 2021 16:49:01 GMT -5
The quartz page has a good discussion of tiger (yellow) and hawkseye (blue). The latter is has the asbestos fibers partially silicified, whereas in the former the fibers are completely replaced by quartz. Reportedly they do occur together suggesting that the blue is an intermediate step toward tiger eye. So for me your variegated is a combination of the two but I like the blue for its less garish tones.
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thebeef
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Post by thebeef on Apr 21, 2021 15:24:20 GMT -5
I have had some pretty neat results when I've tumbled yellow and red tiger eye together - some of the red slurry infiltrates the yellow stones and makes the chatoyance dichromatic.
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