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Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 11:51:49 GMT -5 rockjunquie, miket, and 1 more like this

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Blue Mountain is a tough find for me. I found this slab on eBay, reduced the picture to actual size and estimated 2-3 cabs.

The slab arrived yesterday and I laid out some designs and trimmed today.

I had a small piece of Morgan Hill rough that I faced, cut a slab and made a cab that I already posted. I glued the face to a board and made 3 slabs yesterday. Today, I designed and trimmed them.

I slabbed a piece of fractured Montana yesterday. Today I drew some designs and trimmed some preforms(top row). The one on the left was drawn in the solid area but still fractured. Bottom row are preforms from my Montana slab box.

The only ones I will work on now are the Blue Mountains and tehy are far from special.

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stardiamond gets rocks for Christmas Member since July 2007 Posts: 6,086	Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 13:29:38 GMT -5 rockjunquie, miket, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stardiamond on Apr 29, 2021 13:29:38 GMT -5 I dopped these to work on tomorrow.
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jasoninsd can identify rocks - even green ones I Wish I Knew Half The Stuff I Thought I Knew 30 Years Ago! Member since July 2020 Posts: 18,436	Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 16:56:33 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jasoninsd on Apr 29, 2021 16:56:33 GMT -5 I've heard several different kinds of glue can be used, but out of curiosity, what glue to you use when you're gluing them to boards?
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Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 17:31:23 GMT -5 jasoninsd likes this

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Apr 29, 2021 16:56:33 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

I've heard several different kinds of glue can be used, but out of curiosity, what glue to you use when you're gluing them to boards?

My standard is water glass. I tried gluing a large Willow Creek to a board and it wouldn't hold. My Covington needs to be repaired and it has a lot of vibration. I made multiple attempts and Gorilla wood glue drying for a week worked.

For the little pieces I cut with the HP, it was water glass and about 12 hours and it held. Water glass dissolves in water fairly quickly, Gorilla glue takes a long time.

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stefan Cave Dweller Member since January 2005 Posts: 14,113	Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 17:37:00 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stefan on Apr 29, 2021 17:37:00 GMT -5 gonna be fun to see these finished. Really love the slabs you acquire!
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Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 29, 2021 18:06:51 GMT -5

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Apr 29, 2021 17:37:00 GMT -5 stefan said:

gonna be fun to see these finished. Really love the slabs you acquire!

I did some rough grinding on the domes. The BMJ patterns were unchanged. The Morgan Hill freeform improved with better define poppies. There was no pattern to lay out, but three poppies in an arc appeared with clear quartz between two of them and a with a white quartz tip.
The other Morgan Hill has 3 vugs, with one at the tip. The preform is thick and if I can get rid of the two, I'll recut lowering the tip, otherwise toss it.

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Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed Apr 30, 2021 11:56:59 GMT -5 rockjunquie, miket, and 2 more like this

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vuggety, vuggety, vuggety...gone.

The Morgan Hill was from the same small rock as the vuggy one. The larger Blue Mountain developed a chip at 3,000 so I went back to 280 and it went away.

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Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed May 1, 2021 13:27:50 GMT -5 rockjunquie and jasoninsd like this

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The first Morgan Hill is a gift for a customer and is nice material. The second one is from the same slab I worked on where one cab was nice and the other wasn't. The two Blue Mountains are the lesser of the four preforms from the slab and the none blue one may not be worth finishing. The Montana needs to be taken down for the pattern to show better. All dopped to be completed tomorrow.

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stardiamond gets rocks for Christmas Member since July 2007 Posts: 6,086	Less than best trim saw preforms 8 cabs completed May 2, 2021 13:07:25 GMT -5 miket, jasoninsd, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stardiamond on May 2, 2021 13:07:25 GMT -5 The polishing improved the patterns on the Blue Mountains.
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