Fire Agate May 6, 2021

christopherl1234 has started giving rock gifts Member since March 2010 Posts: 3,282	Fire Agate May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 20:54:02 GMT -5 QuailRiver, drocknut, and 17 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by christopherl1234 on May 6, 2021 20:54:02 GMT -5 Here is my most recent fire agate carving. I really love fire agate!! fa 21.7mm x 11.8mm x 3.6mm 5.9ct 003 by CHRISTOPHER LESSO, on Flickr
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Post by Garage Rocker on May 6, 2021 21:21:19 GMT -5

Beautiful! That stuff always amazes me. There are some nice rough pieces in my collection, but it seems so daunting I don't even consider doing anything with it.
Thanks for sharing!

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Beautiful stone, Christopher!

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May 6, 2021 21:21:19 GMT -5 Garage Rocker said:

Beautiful! That stuff always amazes me. There are some nice rough pieces in my collection, but it seems so daunting I don't even consider doing anything with it.
Thanks for sharing!

Just cut it!!

Thank you everyone

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Post by opalpyrexia on May 8, 2021 8:45:29 GMT -5

That is really impressive!

Like some have said, I have a couple of small pieces of fairly decent fire agate rough that are always waiting for me to do something with them. Gotta find the time (my excuse) and the courage.

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Post by christopherl1234 on May 10, 2021 15:01:56 GMT -5

I always try to encourage others to cut/carve fire agate. If you look back I am pretty sure I shared a tutorial I made on how I cut fire agate here. Just go slow and easy. Cut a little and look a lot!

May 7, 2021 17:20:09 GMT -5 stefan said:

Wowzer. I gotta get some fire agate

Stefan, let me know when you are ready I have hundreds of pounds of good rough and thousands of windowed material to choose from

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Post by Brian on May 10, 2021 17:21:13 GMT -5

That stuff is amazing! I’m pretty sure I read through your tutorial before, but I need to find it again for a refresher. And then maybe in a couple years I may have the guts to try it myself… I hate the idea of ruining perfectly good material.