ericabelle
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ericabelle on May 31, 2021 7:31:35 GMT -5
Ok, I THINK these are brecciated jasper, but correct me if I'm wrong. But the problem is the PITS. 1) Will they ever go away, or is that just the nature of the material? It doesn't help that the pits look "grit gray"; and even though I have brushed and picked at the pits, I can't get the gray out. 2) Is it grit? The large piece (pictured wet) has been through 3 weeks of coarse in my 15lb rotary. The small piece has been through 1 week of coarse in rotary, then the 120/220 SC and 500 AO in my Lot-O. I don't know if I just didn't notice the pits until now or if the Lot-O revealed them. It was landscape rock, and pretty thin; so I didn't leave it in coarse for long.
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Wooferhound
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Post by Wooferhound on May 31, 2021 7:47:16 GMT -5
I get my best landscape rock from the Mapco gas station or McDonalds
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ericabelle
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ericabelle on May 31, 2021 7:55:03 GMT -5
I get my best landscape rock from the Mapco gas station or McDonalds LOL - I usually steal mine from my next door neighbor or make my sister-in-law think I'm crazy by rockhounding her landscape around her pool. That's fun.
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Post by Bob on Jun 1, 2021 9:20:17 GMT -5
Throw away.
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Post by Peruano on Jun 1, 2021 12:37:24 GMT -5
Some just have blems all the way through. Give it to a kid or your sister-in- law( who won't see the blems). Or take it to a cab machine to prove that I am wrong that the blems go all the way. It's a pretty rock Not all of us are totally beautiful.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jun 1, 2021 16:02:59 GMT -5
Pits happen! Yup looks like a brecciated jasper.
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ericabelle
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Post by ericabelle on Jun 2, 2021 12:07:08 GMT -5
Some just have blems all the way through. Give it to a kid or your sister-in- law( who won't see the blems). Or take it to a cab machine to prove that I am wrong that the blems go all the way. It's a pretty rock Not all of us are totally beautiful. I do have several fractured/pitted rocks that are just too pretty to release back into the wild. I may work on it some more, but I sure would like to see my sister-in-laws face if I gave her a rock- that could be priceless!
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Post by Peruano on Jun 2, 2021 15:58:04 GMT -5
My wife and I gave a beautiful pendant (cab attached to a beavertail finding) and modestly told her that I cut and polished the stone and the finding only cost .85. She without thinking replied that it was the first time she had received a gift costing 0.85. I reminded her that the stone was priceless. I spent 10 years learning to work stones and about an additional 25 minutes making the one I gave her. She was appreciatve. Go figure friends and sils.
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Post by Peruano on Jun 2, 2021 16:53:39 GMT -5
There is a sign in the shop where I buy some of the findings I use. It says:
"Never apologize for your art." I don't.
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Post by Bob on Jun 3, 2021 14:02:10 GMT -5
ericabelle, to give you a bit more info that might help...
I buy rocks and collect many in the field. So first tumble a week in rough grind. Sometimes it's hard to tell after that if pits here and there on the surface are all the way through the rock or not. Give it another week. Then if still there it almost always means they will not go away with further processing--IF they are on all sides or mostly so.
If only on one side or one end sometimes they will get worn away with further grinding in rough.
In other words, material can be pitted only in one region you can work around, or pitted all the way through so is crappy. And if you bought a batch of material, sometimes some will be pitted while the rest is fantastic. That's just the nature of rock out there. When walking a beach, one can lick a pretty rock and then let the shine from the sun reflect on the wet surface and often tell if it's a pitted rock or not.
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ericabelle
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Post by ericabelle on Jun 4, 2021 15:22:01 GMT -5
My wife and I gave a beautiful pendant (cab attached to a beavertail finding) and modestly told her that I cut and polished the stone and the finding only cost .85. She without thinking replied that it was the first time she had received a gift costing 0.85. I reminded her that the stone was priceless. I spent 10 years learning to work stones and about an additional 25 minutes making the one I gave her. She was appreciatve. Go figure friends and sils. A shame she didn't realize how special your gift was. My sister in law probably wouldn't accept a gift they wasn't some expensive name brand, so it would be completely lost on her, too!
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