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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2022 21:31:46 GMT -5
Pics 1-3: Rocky Butte Picture Jasper. Big time shine!  Pics 4-6: Turitella Agate. Three out of four made it to completion...that's pretty good return for this material. LOL Pics 7-11: Teepee Canyon Agates. The first one has a real holographic look to the center of that fortification pattern! Pic 12: Copper Complex with Malachite and Azurite (supposedly LOL). This material is all over the map for hardness. I went from the 220 hard, straight to 3000. I've tried every other combination of wheels, and this is what seemed to work out best. Thanks for taking a gander! Pic 1  Pic 2  Pic 3  Pic 4  Pic 5  Pic 6  Pic 7  Pic 8  Pic 9  Pic 10  Pic 11  Pic 12  |
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Post by perkins17 on Feb 24, 2022 21:39:22 GMT -5
Nice job getting those done jasoninsd! Turitellina is one of my favorite stones. Just recently, the president of our rock club was slabbing out a nice hunk of the stuff. TeePees are really interesting agates. I'm not sure we have such awesome stuff so locally. Straight from 220 to 3000? Dang! I love copper materials. They're always super expensive though. |
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Post by realrockhound on Feb 24, 2022 21:39:38 GMT -5
Teepee canyon reminds me of priday plume in a sense. Meaning that when cabbed with the outer matrix/host material, it really sets off the agate and highlights it.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 24, 2022 21:55:51 GMT -5
I LOVE those teepees. They are all winners!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 24, 2022 21:57:07 GMT -5
Pics 1-3: Rocky Butte Picture Jasper. Big time shine! Pics 4-6: Turitella Agate. Three out of four made it to completion...that's pretty good return for this material. LOL Pics 7-11: Teepee Canyon Agates. The first one has a real holographic look to the center of that fortification pattern! Pic 12: Copper Complex with Malachite and Azurite (supposedly LOL). This material is all over the map for hardness. I went from the 220 hard, straight to 3000. I've tried every other combination of wheels, and this is what seemed to work out best. Thanks for taking a gander! Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10 Pic 11 Pic 12 Gorgeous! Love #3 - what a great pattern for Rocky Butte, #7 - that center fortification is psychedelic!, #8 - druzy!, and the last 3 Teepees because of the speckled fortifications in each of those. The Turitellas are lovely, too, and you got a nice shine on that copper complex. It's a difficult stone to polish sometimes.  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2022 22:01:26 GMT -5
Nice job getting those done jasoninsd ! Turitellina is one of my favorite stones. Just recently, the president of our rock club was slabbing out a nice hunk of the stuff. TeePees are really interesting agates. I'm not sure we have such awesome stuff so locally. Straight from 220 to 3000? Dang! I love copper materials. They're always super expensive though. Thanks Perk!  I have a BUNCH of Turitella...and it's such a heartache most times! LOL Yeah...that copper complex has given me SO many fits. LOL Teepee canyon reminds me of priday plume in a sense. Meaning that when cabbed with the outer matrix/host material, it really sets off the agate and highlights it. Very interesting comparison! When I first started cabbing, one of my favorite materials to cab was Thundereggs. After I started collecting Teepee Canyon Agates, they replaced Thundereggs at the top of the list. I'm totally with you on the juxtaposition of the agate and matrix! I LOVE those teepees. They are all winners! Thanks Tela! I don't think I'll EVER get tired of working Teepee Canyon Agates! LOL |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2022 22:06:54 GMT -5
Pics 1-3: Rocky Butte Picture Jasper. Big time shine! Pics 4-6: Turitella Agate. Three out of four made it to completion...that's pretty good return for this material. LOL Pics 7-11: Teepee Canyon Agates. The first one has a real holographic look to the center of that fortification pattern! Pic 12: Copper Complex with Malachite and Azurite (supposedly LOL). This material is all over the map for hardness. I went from the 220 hard, straight to 3000. I've tried every other combination of wheels, and this is what seemed to work out best. Thanks for taking a gander! Gorgeous! Love #3 - what a great pattern for Rocky Butte, #7 - that center fortification is psychedelic!, #8 - druzy!, and the last 3 Teepees because of the speckled fortifications in each of those. The Turitellas are lovely, too, and you got a nice shine on that copper complex. It's a difficult stone to polish sometimes.  Thanks Robin! Yeah, I saw that pattern in the Rocky Butte slab, and that was the first shape chosen on the slab...the others are after-thoughts! LOL I wish everyone could see that #7 in person...it really is psychedelic! #8 is the next slab on the rock that won the druzy contest. LOL Okay, that Copper Complex is the same material I sent you. If you ever work it, and you can get a "smooth" surface to it, let me know what you did! This piece undercut the least amount of any of them I've worked! |
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Post by darrad on Feb 24, 2022 22:15:42 GMT -5
Top shelf as always.
What I wanna know is... Where do you find the time to create as many cabs as you do?
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2022 22:21:01 GMT -5
Top shelf as always. What I wanna know is... Where do you find the time to create as many cabs as you do? Thanks Dave! Well...I only get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night...gotta do something with the awake time! LOL Seriously though...if I'm "on" with the 80 grit, that is the biggest time saver and I can finish a cab in roughly 30 minutes. If I don't get the shape "smooth" on the 80, then I'm fighting divots on the 220. If I don't catch them on the 220, then fighting them on the 280 soft. |
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Post by perkins17 on Feb 24, 2022 22:52:27 GMT -5
Nice job getting those done jasoninsd ! Turitellina is one of my favorite stones. Just recently, the president of our rock club was slabbing out a nice hunk of the stuff. TeePees are really interesting agates. I'm not sure we have such awesome stuff so locally. Straight from 220 to 3000? Dang! I love copper materials. They're always super expensive though. Thanks Perk! I have a BUNCH of Turitella...and it's such a heartache most times! LOL Yeah...that copper complex has given me SO many fits. LOL Teepee canyon reminds me of priday plume in a sense. Meaning that when cabbed with the outer matrix/host material, it really sets off the agate and highlights it. Very interesting comparison! When I first started cabbing, one of my favorite materials to cab was Thundereggs. After I started collecting Teepee Canyon Agates, they replaced Thundereggs at the top of the list. I'm totally with you on the juxtaposition of the agate and matrix! I LOVE those teepees. They are all winners! Thanks Tela! I don't think I'll EVER get tired of working Teepee Canyon Agates! LOL Uh oh! Maybe I should have dona a little more research before buying "copper conglomerate" lol! Having like ten grits of soft wheels helps with though. (Maybe if I say it enough it will be true!!!! 😂) |
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Post by brybry on Feb 25, 2022 4:42:34 GMT -5
All gorgeous as always brother!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 25, 2022 8:58:01 GMT -5
Gorgeous! Love #3 - what a great pattern for Rocky Butte, #7 - that center fortification is psychedelic!, #8 - druzy!, and the last 3 Teepees because of the speckled fortifications in each of those. The Turitellas are lovely, too, and you got a nice shine on that copper complex. It's a difficult stone to polish sometimes. Thanks Robin! Yeah, I saw that pattern in the Rocky Butte slab, and that was the first shape chosen on the slab...the others are after-thoughts! LOL I wish everyone could see that #7 in person...it really is psychedelic! #8 is the next slab on the rock that won the druzy contest. LOL Okay, that Copper Complex is the same material I sent you. If you ever work it, and you can get a "smooth" surface to it, let me know what you did! This piece undercut the least amount of any of them I've worked! Copper complex is such a mixture of different minerals that it really depends on how hard it is. Most of it will never be completely smooth. Some will crumble as you try to cab it. Every once in a while there's some that is silica rich and hard. That stuff cuts easily, with not nearly so much fussing. Funny story - when we took Lapidary 1 at the community college for fun, the instructor (who introduced us both at the beginning of the class as "ringers") at the end of the semster gave everyone a baggie of a few rocks. It was a "challenge" bag of hard to cut smaller pieces of stone and we had to cut a stone out of at least one piece from the bag. Vince had a small piece of Charoite in his bag that he cut and I had some Chrysocolla in mine. I started cutting and that piece was ringing like crazy on the 80. It was so hard I just laughed all the way through that cab. There was a little piece left over so I cut a small round stone from it. When I put the two pieces together it looked like a exclamation mark. When I brought them in the next week and he critiqued them he was amazed at how nice they turned out. He really thought he was pulling a fast one on everyone by giving out crappy pieces.  |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 25, 2022 8:59:18 GMT -5
Exclamation Mark pendant:  I guy I worked with at the time actually bought it from me for his wife. |
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Post by Brian on Feb 25, 2022 9:05:00 GMT -5
Another great batch, Jason! I don’t think I’d ever tire of looking at Teepees. There is just something about the combination of the banding and the matrix that works so well. It’s almost as if Mother Nature decided they needed to be framed.
Great shine on the turitella, too.
I like those Rocky Buttes as well. They have such nice colors in them and some neat patterns, too. They almost look like the long lost cousin of Imperial Jasper, in particular #3.
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 25, 2022 14:55:44 GMT -5
All gorgeous as always brother! Thank you my friend! You're gonna love working with Teepee Canyon Agates!  Thanks Robin! Yeah, I saw that pattern in the Rocky Butte slab, and that was the first shape chosen on the slab...the others are after-thoughts! LOL I wish everyone could see that #7 in person...it really is psychedelic! #8 is the next slab on the rock that won the druzy contest. LOL Okay, that Copper Complex is the same material I sent you. If you ever work it, and you can get a "smooth" surface to it, let me know what you did! This piece undercut the least amount of any of them I've worked! Copper complex is such a mixture of different minerals that it really depends on how hard it is. Most of it will never be completely smooth. Some will crumble as you try to cab it. Every once in a while there's some that is silica rich and hard. That stuff cuts easily, with not nearly so much fussing. Funny story - when we took Lapidary 1 at the community college for fun, the instructor (who introduced us both at the beginning of the class as "ringers") at the end of the semster gave everyone a baggie of a few rocks. It was a "challenge" bag of hard to cut smaller pieces of stone and we had to cut a stone out of at least one piece from the bag. Vince had a small piece of Charoite in his bag that he cut and I had some Chrysocolla in mine. I started cutting and that piece was ringing like crazy on the 80. It was so hard I just laughed all the way through that cab. There was a little piece left over so I cut a small round stone from it. When I put the two pieces together it looked like a exclamation mark. When I brought them in the next week and he critiqued them he was amazed at how nice they turned out. He really thought he was pulling a fast one on everyone by giving out crappy pieces.  I caught something the other day about some copper complex being more silicified than other. I guess it's another case of rolling the dice if buying online versus in person. That story was hilarious! LOL Exclamation Mark pendant: I guy I worked with at the time actually bought it from me for his wife. Robin, that piece is BEAUTIFUL ! ! ! ! ! ! (See what I did there! LOL) Another great batch, Jason! I don’t think I’d ever tire of looking at Teepees. There is just something about the combination of the banding and the matrix that works so well. It’s almost as if Mother Nature decided they needed to be framed. Great shine on the turitella, too. I like those Rocky Buttes as well. They have such nice colors in them and some neat patterns, too. They almost look like the long lost cousin of Imperial Jasper, in particular #3. Thanks my friend! I am seriously getting the itch to get out to Teepee Canyon already...and it's still to snowy/chilly in the hills to get up there...but I'm watching for my first opportunity! LOL I had this latest batch sitting out and my wife was looking at them. She immediately pointed out the shine on the Rocky Buttes...it really does come close to the shine on Royal Imperial Jasper! |
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Post by holajonathan on Feb 25, 2022 16:22:21 GMT -5
Top shelf as always. What I wanna know is... Where do you find the time to create as many cabs as you do? Thanks Dave! Well...I only get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night...gotta do something with the awake time! LOL Seriously though...if I'm "on" with the 80 grit, that is the biggest time saver and I can finish a cab in roughly 30 minutes. If I don't get the shape "smooth" on the 80, then I'm fighting divots on the 220. If I don't catch them on the 220, then fighting them on the 280 soft. I will comment on the actual cabs later, but I feel obligated to point out that although you only sleep 4-5 hours a night, you take a 2-hour nap most afternoons. Right? In other words, you only have 16 or so hours a day to make cabs, not 18-19 hours a day as you've suggested. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 25, 2022 18:20:25 GMT -5
Thanks Dave! Well...I only get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night...gotta do something with the awake time! LOL Seriously though...if I'm "on" with the 80 grit, that is the biggest time saver and I can finish a cab in roughly 30 minutes. If I don't get the shape "smooth" on the 80, then I'm fighting divots on the 220. If I don't catch them on the 220, then fighting them on the 280 soft. I will comment on the actual cabs later, but I feel obligated to point out that although you only sleep 4-5 hours a night, you take a 2-hour nap most afternoons. Right? In other words, you only have 16 or so hours a day to make cabs, not 18-19 hours a day as you've suggested.   LOL - Yes...I do on occasion (read that as most days) do get jumped by my pillow, which wrestles me into my bed until I submit to a 90ish minute "nap"! LOL |
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Post by holajonathan on Feb 25, 2022 22:02:03 GMT -5
I never manage to see any pictures in Rocky Butte (your material or mine), but it has great colors and polishes well. I like your third one the best. Someday you're going to have to teach me your secrets for keeping your ovals so perfectly symmetrical. I never had much luck tumbling Turitella, but your cabs have inspired me to try cabbing it. I am surprised how well numbers 6 and 7 turned out, since in my experience, the lighter colored matrix is very soft. Yours looks great, so you've either got some great rough, or you appropriately used a very light touch. Finally, you seem to have an unlimited supply of amazing TeePee canyon rough. I hope there's still some left out there, because you've kind of gotten my hopes up. They are all really good, but 10 and 11 are killer. Really nice fortifications, good cutting angles on your part, and nice captures. Those are flawless cabs in my book. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 25, 2022 23:35:15 GMT -5
I never manage to see any pictures in Rocky Butte (your material or mine), but it has great colors and polishes well. I like your third one the best. Someday you're going to have to teach me your secrets for keeping your ovals so perfectly symmetrical. I never had much luck tumbling Turitella, but your cabs have inspired me to try cabbing it. I am surprised how well numbers 6 and 7 turned out, since in my experience, the lighter colored matrix is very soft. Yours looks great, so you've either got some great rough, or you appropriately used a very light touch. Finally, you seem to have an unlimited supply of amazing TeePee canyon rough. I hope there's still some left out there, because you've kind of gotten my hopes up. They are all really good, but 10 and 11 are killer. Really nice fortifications, good cutting angles on your part, and nice captures. Those are flawless cabs in my book. I've got a few more preforms of Rocky Butte...but it's the more mottled colors and a couple with the blue in it. I'll be curious to see how those turn out as well. I like that third one the best of them as well. The only thing I can say is it's all in my shaping the preforms on the trim saw. I'm just very careful to follow the stencil line... Yeah...ummm...about the Turitella...I'm like 3 for 27 on that material! I've stayed away from it for SO long because it was always pitting out - and it just got so frustrating! I had four 3" square slabs and got one cab out of each of those slabs. There was only one cab sized section that didn't have pits. There's still a couple small pits on two of those...but they're minor and I can tolerate them. I didn't use a light touch... NOT unlimited on the Teepee Canyon Agate! I'm down to about 30 preforms of the "good stuff"...and about 4 MFRB's full of slabs which I'd grade as "ok". LOL I'm dying to get out there. I think I might see about sneaking out there in the next couple weeks if there's a stretch of decent weather. I need to make a call to someone over in Custer to see if the hills are still covered in snow...if they are, going would be questionable. I'll agree...number 11 is a killer Teepee example. I like it because it has some purple tones just outside of that yellow area... |
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