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Post by holajonathan on Feb 25, 2022 16:00:45 GMT -5
I made these yesterday. They are all material I've been woking a lot recently, so just more of the same. 1. Original Owyhee Picture JasperThe background tan color has a bluish tint. You can see this in the last photo if you compare it with the other tear drop, which has a warmer tan background. I like both.   Together with friends.  2. Amethyst Sage Agate
When tilted 90 degrees, it is a symmetrical elongated oval that is slightly "pinched" at one end. (Symmetrical across a vertical axis.) This was an oval until I hit a bad spot and reshaped.    3. Amethyst Sage Agate
This took an impeccable polish with no undercutting in the dendrites. Very solid dendrites is one of the qualities that makes Amy Sage so nice. This one looks like dendritic opal, but without all the fractures.   Together with others from the same slab.  4. Madagascar Dendritic Agate
This cab is huge (at least 70mm x 35mm) and has shadow banding. Big, very shiny, and rather boring.    5. Ohio Flint
Black inclusions are metallic, as you can sort of see in the glare at the bottom.   6. Ohio Flint Or in lapidary terms -- brecciated jasper in agate.   Together with other Ohio Flint cabs, including two wraps by jasoninsd  7. Mexican Lace Agate ("Cactus Lace")It's hard to get a good, tight capture on material this "busy." I gave up and made it obnoxiously large -- around 3" tall. This is the way I made cabs when I first started. I tried to capture everything I liked on a slab. It's a fun way to show off material and make display pieces. But it's a bad way to make jewelry-size cabs. It also takes forever. So this one is a throwback to how I made cabs a little over a year ago: big, bold, beautiful, and not good for much.   |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 25, 2022 18:29:48 GMT -5
I've gotta say, I love the way you've laid out your original post. That really makes it a "story-board" type of reading. Kudos on that! That Original Owyhee Picture Jasper is really beautiful material of which you did an amazing justice to it! Makes me want to dig out the pieces I have... That being said, I actually did dop 5 or 6 pieces of Amethyst Sage this morning...before you posted this...so I'm not copying the material you're working! LOL - I am excited to work this material again.  That Ohio Flint is gorgeous as always! I get why you made the Cactus Lace so large...it's hard NOT to want to capture everything like you did in that piece! |
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Post by holajonathan on Feb 25, 2022 21:38:05 GMT -5
I've gotta say, I love the way you've laid out your original post. That really makes it a "story-board" type of reading. Kudos on that! That Original Owyhee Picture Jasper is really beautiful material of which you did an amazing justice to it! Makes me want to dig out the pieces I have... That being said, I actually did dop 5 or 6 pieces of Amethyst Sage this morning...before you posted this...so I'm not copying the material you're working! LOL - I am excited to work this material again.  That Ohio Flint is gorgeous as always! I get why you made the Cactus Lace so large...it's hard NOT to want to capture everything like you did in that piece! As for formatting / presentation.... Tweaking the cloudinary settings to drastically downsize my photos while retaining max image quality made them display much better. I could show a little more detail by making them display larger, but even at the current size, you still see more detail than you see in person unless you are holding them right in front of your face. It's true that consistent spacing and formatting, and bolded titles does a lot for "readability." (Something I learned in a previous career, when I did lots of writing that needed to be easy to read.) Thanks for noticing my efforts in this regard. I want everyone to "copy" my amethyst sage fervor, so I can enjoys seeing all the cabs. It's largely a matter of personal taste, but I think it's one of the best cabbing materials that is widely available and not super expensive. I've made about 20 cabs and I'm not bored with it yet. To the contrary, I'm looking for more / different rough. Have you noticed that I've been making almost all tear drops and ovals lately, and you've been making all sorts of other shapes? Hmm... |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Feb 25, 2022 21:54:32 GMT -5
"It's a fun way to show off material and make display pieces. But it's a bad way to make jewelry-size cabs. It also takes forever. So this one is a throwback to how I made cabs a little over a year ago: big, bold, beautiful, and not good for much." I think it's a great way to capture what is going on, I would probably do the same to a lot of mine given the resources. It's like the map of some fantasy novel At least it stands on its own. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 25, 2022 21:58:13 GMT -5
Beauties! Gotta love Amy Sage, but those Ohio Flints are so pretty I can't pick a favorite.
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 25, 2022 23:20:44 GMT -5
I've gotta say, I love the way you've laid out your original post. That really makes it a "story-board" type of reading. Kudos on that! That Original Owyhee Picture Jasper is really beautiful material of which you did an amazing justice to it! Makes me want to dig out the pieces I have... That being said, I actually did dop 5 or 6 pieces of Amethyst Sage this morning...before you posted this...so I'm not copying the material you're working! LOL - I am excited to work this material again. That Ohio Flint is gorgeous as always! I get why you made the Cactus Lace so large...it's hard NOT to want to capture everything like you did in that piece! As for formatting / presentation.... Tweaking the cloudinary settings to drastically downsize my photos while retaining max image quality made them display much better. I could show a little more detail by making them display larger, but even at the current size, you still see more detail than you see in person unless you are holding them right in front of your face. It's true that consistent spacing and formatting, and bolded titles does a lot for "readability." (Something I learned in a previous career, when I did lots of writing that needed to be easy to read.) Thanks for noticing my efforts in this regard. I want everyone to "copy" my amethyst sage fervor, so I can enjoys seeing all the cabs. It's largely a matter of personal taste, but I think it's one of the best cabbing materials that is widely available and not super expensive. I've made about 20 cabs and I'm not bored with it yet. To the contrary, I'm looking for more / different rough. Have you noticed that I've been making almost all tear drops and ovals lately, and you've been making all sorts of other shapes? Hmm...
Yeah...but you've got about 783 more teardrops to make before you catch up to me! LOL |
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Post by holajonathan on Feb 26, 2022 0:42:43 GMT -5
jasoninsdChallenge accepted. With these, your advance will be reduced to a mere 765. 
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Post by realrockhound on Feb 26, 2022 1:08:22 GMT -5
Good stuff. Is that plume I see in that last set?
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Post by holajonathan on Feb 26, 2022 1:26:58 GMT -5
Good stuff. Is that plume I see in that last set? That your plume radar is very finely tuned, I see. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 26, 2022 1:41:57 GMT -5
jasoninsdChallenge accepted. With these, your advance will be reduced to a mere 765. I will give you extra credit for picking different teardrop shapes. I have a "standard go-to" size and shape... |
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