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Post by perkins17 on Nov 7, 2021 14:46:11 GMT -5
I just finished grinding this stone. I self collected this as a small stone and just ground it into this shape. I didn't use a saw or a flat lap so the back is a little uneven but I thought it is cool. This went up to 1200 and was still cutting just to give you an idea of how hard it is. jasoninsd, this is the same type of stuff that I told you I wanted to slab. Thanks for looking! flic.kr/p/2mHgj3T |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Nov 7, 2021 15:53:38 GMT -5
Looks good Perk. I look like a was a good choice to cab as well.
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 7, 2021 17:32:31 GMT -5
Looks good Perk. I look like a was a good choice to cab as well. Thank you! I thought so too. The scene I captured was totally on accident. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 7, 2021 17:36:31 GMT -5
Nice work- keep those wheels spinning. 
Have you considered using Cloudinary for pictures? Or, you can use a code from Flckr to paste a picture in here. Not sure which code because I don't use Flickr. Pretty sure Pat does. Maybe she can help. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 7, 2021 19:09:15 GMT -5
Nice job Perk! That material cabs better than I thought it would for some reason...I had no legitimate reason to think it wouldn't.  |
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 7, 2021 20:12:05 GMT -5
Nice work- keep those wheels spinning.
Have you considered using Cloudinary for pictures? Or, you can use a code from Flckr to paste a picture in here. Not sure which code because I don't use Flickr. Pretty sure Pat does. Maybe she can help. Thank you! I can but the code doesn't show up on a phone. |
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 7, 2021 20:15:10 GMT -5
Nice job Perk! That material cabs better than I thought it would for some reason...I had no legitimate reason to think it wouldn't. Thanks! It did cab pretty good. I think I like cabbing soft stuff better than hard. Waaaaayyyy easier to cab than tumble. Tumblers destroy (pulverize) them. I need to get back to the club to slab that price. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 7, 2021 20:41:51 GMT -5
Nice job Perk! That material cabs better than I thought it would for some reason...I had no legitimate reason to think it wouldn't. Thanks! It did cab pretty good. I think I like cabbing soft stuff better than hard. Waaaaayyyy easier to cab than tumble. Tumblers destroy (pulverize) them. I need to get back to the club to slab that price. I like both hard and soft material for different reasons. I like the soft because it takes way less time and effort to cab. I like the really hard material because there's a lot of room for error. There's more "stress" for me cabbing softer material, because the slightest wrong move and it can completely alter the cab...and not in the direction I was wanting. With harder material, a wrong move doesn't have much effect...unless it's repeated constantly. |
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 7, 2021 21:13:59 GMT -5
Thanks! It did cab pretty good. I think I like cabbing soft stuff better than hard. Waaaaayyyy easier to cab than tumble. Tumblers destroy (pulverize) them. I need to get back to the club to slab that peice. I like both hard and soft material for different reasons. I like the soft because it takes way less time and effort to cab. I like the really hard material because there's a lot of room for error. There's more "stress" for me cabbing softer material, because the slightest wrong move and it can completely alter the cab...and not in the direction I was wanting. With harder material, a wrong move doesn't have much effect...unless it's repeated constantly. I think I'm the same way. I like the soft stuff because of how fast it goes too. I probably knocked that cab out in 20 minutes even with belt changes. Harder material for me at least, seems to develop more flat spots that are hard to remove. Maybe that is just my lack of skill but I don't know. I'm definitely improving in the flat spots area. I had a ton on my first cab. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 7, 2021 21:35:25 GMT -5
I like both hard and soft material for different reasons. I like the soft because it takes way less time and effort to cab. I like the really hard material because there's a lot of room for error. There's more "stress" for me cabbing softer material, because the slightest wrong move and it can completely alter the cab...and not in the direction I was wanting. With harder material, a wrong move doesn't have much effect...unless it's repeated constantly. I think I'm the same way. I like the soft stuff because of how fast it goes too. I probably knocked that cab out in 20 minutes even with belt changes. Harder material for me at least, seems to develop more flat spots that are hard to remove. Maybe that is just my lack of skill but I don't know. I'm definitely improving in the flat spots area. I had a ton on my first cab. Remember, I'm still relatively new to this too... On the harder material, I will use pretty decent pressure on my 80 grit (hard) disk to knock the most material off I can, with the disk cranked up to the highest speed possible. This does create minor "flat spots". I have the ability to slow the speed of my disk. I will drop the speed to the slowest possible setting and use very light pressure on the 80 grit disk - being careful to follow the existing shape of the dome. Doing this removes a tremendous amount of the flat spots. What doesn't come out with that, will come out with very light pressure on the 180 grit (hard) disk. It took me a while to figure this one out. |
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 8, 2021 10:06:32 GMT -5
I think I'm the same way. I like the soft stuff because of how fast it goes too. I probably knocked that cab out in 20 minutes even with belt changes. Harder material for me at least, seems to develop more flat spots that are hard to remove. Maybe that is just my lack of skill but I don't know. I'm definitely improving in the flat spots area. I had a ton on my first cab. Remember, I'm still relatively new to this too... On the harder material, I will use pretty decent pressure on my 80 grit (hard) disk to knock the most material off I can, with the disk cranked up to the highest speed possible. This does create minor "flat spots". I have the ability to slow the speed of my disk. I will drop the speed to the slowest possible setting and use very light pressure on the 80 grit disk - being careful to follow the existing shape of the dome. Doing this removes a tremendous amount of the flat spots. What doesn't come out with that, will come out with very light pressure on the 180 grit (hard) disk. It took me a while to figure this one out. Ok thank you! That makes sense. |
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Post by electrocutus on Nov 8, 2021 11:03:56 GMT -5
I just finished grinding this stone. I self collected this as a small stone and just ground it into this shape. I didn't use a saw or a flat lap so the back is a little uneven but I thought it is cool. This went up to 1200 and was still cutting just to give you an idea of how hard it is. jasoninsd , this is the same type of stuff that I told you I wanted to slab. Thanks for looking! flic.kr/p/2mHgj3TGreat choice of comic too :-) |
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Post by perkins17 on Nov 8, 2021 11:12:18 GMT -5
I just finished grinding this stone. I self collected this as a small stone and just ground it into this shape. I didn't use a saw or a flat lap so the back is a little uneven but I thought it is cool. This went up to 1200 and was still cutting just to give you an idea of how hard it is. jasoninsd , this is the same type of stuff that I told you I wanted to slab. Thanks for looking! flic.kr/p/2mHgj3TGreat choice of comic too :-) Ha! Gotta love Calvin and Hobbes. 😂 |
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