JC
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by JC on Oct 14, 2005 21:42:48 GMT -5
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Post by Cher on Oct 14, 2005 22:02:19 GMT -5
WoW JC that looks really great, looks like you got some terrific color there.
Was your wife asking what you were cooking because of the smell or just
"why is the oven on so high"?
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Post by cookie3rocks on Oct 14, 2005 22:11:16 GMT -5
Wow JC, this should be good. Keep us posted. What stage were they on when you "cooked" them?
cookie
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JC
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by JC on Oct 14, 2005 22:19:07 GMT -5
The smell was probably just my dirty oven being cleaned at 500F for a few hours. The rocks were just finished course stage at 80#. I'll probably run them another week in 80# just to make sure. The batch will be the combined cooked and uncooked golden tiger eye.
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Post by rockds on Oct 14, 2005 22:26:27 GMT -5
too cool, i didn't know you could cook your rocks and get different colors. can you do this with any other rocks? You should do some slabs to see how deep the color goes. Tiger eye doesn't do much for me but that red tiger eye does. Thanks for the pics, keep 'em coming
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Banjocreek
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by Banjocreek on Oct 15, 2005 0:09:48 GMT -5
I don't know how far the color change goes down, but I got some cooked 'Tiger Eye' from Sandsman and after a quick trip to the grinding stone to shape it, the color was back to yellow, so I would suggest you do as little rough grinding/shaping as possible.
Probably best to cook it at prepolish or even after polish stage.
Good luck!!
-Banjo
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Post by LCARS on Oct 15, 2005 0:15:01 GMT -5
Kewel!  I'm gonna try that with some of mine as soon as I free up a barrel to start the rough...  I guess the "cooking" just oxidizes the outer layer but I bet one could do some funky tricks with that by exposing some yellow parts & leaving the rest all red. |
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Post by Alice on Oct 15, 2005 8:26:01 GMT -5
Has anyone ever tried putting blue or green tiger eye in the oven?
What color does it change to?
How about polished tiger eye? will heating them up ruin the finish?
I have my fingers crossed that they stay red for you JC
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JC
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by JC on Oct 15, 2005 15:26:05 GMT -5
I've got some Blue Tiger eye rolling right now. I intend to cook them as well to see what happens unless someone here already knows.
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Post by Alice on Oct 15, 2005 15:31:49 GMT -5
I have some blue and a couple of green pieces that came with my blue. They're already polished up.
I'd try putting a few polished ones in the oven, but it's not worth running up my electrical bill to heat up 4 rocks.
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Oct 15, 2005 16:02:05 GMT -5
JC, those worked out really well. I tried doing that about a year or so ago, but I didn't get them nearly as red as yours (my cooking time was far less).
I read somewhere that there is kind of a continuum from blue to yellow to red tiger eye, so that if you cook blue tiger eye you can turn it yellow and eventually red. I'm not certain about that though, so post your results if you give it a try.
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gemmaster
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Post by gemmaster on Oct 15, 2005 21:55:05 GMT -5
the color change from yellow to red would penetrate all the way throuogh with longer oven times or as banjo said cook in the prepolish stage, just dry sloly , cook . wait. the commercial suppliers donot even get it right have paid 5-6 $ a pound for canelian was suppused to be red all thru was not just a thin skin was i pi@#$%%$#off you bet still buy rough from this wholesaler but no more of their carnelian. tried to heat treat an alabama agate was muddy brown almost black looking it turned white as ghost and was dog squeeze afterwards , loioked like a rock vampire sucked it dry so all things willnot convert but the beat and the heat goes on the electic company loves rock cookers. gemmaster
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James
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Post by James on Oct 16, 2005 20:25:05 GMT -5
Thant's pretty cool JC. I'm glad you made it back from Iraq ok! Thanks buddy!
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Tellfamily
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Post by Tellfamily on Oct 16, 2005 22:17:50 GMT -5
I cooked my tiger eye before they went intot he tumbler. They came out of polish still red.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 17, 2005 0:35:34 GMT -5
jc i can't wait to see these finished. hope you keep us posted.
kim
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Post by creativeminded on Oct 17, 2005 10:09:10 GMT -5
I have some of the tiger eye that I cooked tumbling and the red has disappeared, any suggestions.
Tami
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Oct 17, 2005 12:08:44 GMT -5
cook again- Run it as long as possible- (4 to 5 hours min.) and cool slowly (overnight if possible)
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Post by parfive on Oct 17, 2005 16:21:02 GMT -5
JC - Looks like you seared your fingerprints onto a hot rock in the last pic. Didn't the wife let you use her oven mitts? Keep on cookin'.
Rich
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