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Post by rockds on Nov 4, 2005 19:38:30 GMT -5
not overly thrilled but a good learning experience for me. Learned its not a good thing to polish different hardness at the same time. The lighting sucked and didn't do shine justice - taken inside because mosquitoes were eaten me up out side. whole batch   Lowe's special for textiger  thanks for looking |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Nov 4, 2005 19:58:09 GMT -5
Those look great!  |
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Post by gaetzchamp on Nov 4, 2005 20:25:48 GMT -5
I think the brown "conglomerate" in the first picture on the far right. Neato.
gaetz
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Post by Cher on Nov 4, 2005 21:32:51 GMT -5
Well done Robert, that's a nice looking colorful batch of rocks.
Good you learned something with this batch, we'll have higher
expectations for the next one.
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textiger
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by textiger on Nov 4, 2005 22:44:16 GMT -5
Robert,
Love the entire right column. Would the brownish ones be conglomerates or brecciated something? They resemble the green jasper from africa that kim has, just not in color. The red ones and the two yellowish-brown ones at the top of the column are really cool. The Lowe's rocks came out looking pretty cool, too. What are the little bluish ones?
Nice job. I think they look great. It's hard to see the shine sometimes with flash photography, but I think you have a nice batch. I took a similar tack and decided that no matter how they came out, it was a learning experience. But I would say you don't have a heckuva lot more to learn--they look good.
matt
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by SteveHolmes on Nov 4, 2005 22:49:19 GMT -5
Robert,
Not too bad of a batch! I like all the different colors. Nice Job.
Steve
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Nov 5, 2005 3:05:57 GMT -5
Would the brownish ones be conglomerates or brecciated something? They would be brecciated something... Angular rocks in matrix = breccia. Rounded rocks in matrix = conglomerate. Well, you already knew that, but for those who didn't.... Rockds, nice patterns and colours on many of those, and nicely rounded. I've never had any luck with indoor or flash pics. I vote for braving the mosquitoes next time  |
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Post by rockds on Nov 5, 2005 7:05:55 GMT -5
thank you all, all the rocks are CA beach rocks except the ones around the coin. White and pink are marble; dark pink,black,white are granit; blue ones are quartz; oval brown one with no shine is fossilized limestone. The breccia (brown and tan) came out with the beat shine, followed by the red (next to it) and the greenish ones (cal jade) at the other end.
Just put rest of quartz, blue and green into 500 and started what i think will be my fav - lepard - in 60/90.
robert
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Post by creativeminded on Nov 5, 2005 9:16:51 GMT -5
Those turned out great, love the different shapes.
Tami
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Post by Jack ( Yorkshire) on Nov 5, 2005 13:57:58 GMT -5
Hi Rocksd,
Great to see a nice selection what's the blue ones top Pic LH side ?
Are all these your local rocks?
Keep it up look forward to your next posts.
Jack
Yorkshire UK
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Post by Noosh9057 on Nov 5, 2005 14:25:44 GMT -5
I think it looks good for the first bach.
Keep up the good work.
Noosh
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Post by rockds on Nov 5, 2005 23:03:35 GMT -5
hey jack the blue is blue quartz.
wife said to try again so i'm doing them over using AO and removed all the softer stones - will show pics if changes occur.
robert
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