llanago
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Post by llanago on Dec 11, 2005 20:03:22 GMT -5
Oh Sands, those are beautiful! I love them all, but the mook has got to be my fav. Ya' know how I love red - and with that splash of yellow - spectacular!
llana
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Dec 12, 2005 13:18:06 GMT -5
nice to see your working again- Man I think you've out done yourself- Gotta get my grinder fired up- if I ever get the strenght back in my fingers (damn strep infection)
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chassroc
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Rocks are abundant when you have rocktumblinghobby pals
Member since January 2005
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Post by chassroc on Dec 12, 2005 13:25:26 GMT -5
Sands,
Nice Cabs...I have started a few in an oval shape..Those straight edges look real nice. Might have to try that
csroc
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Rose
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Post by Rose on Dec 12, 2005 16:13:34 GMT -5
Gorgeous Sands  |
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Post by sandsman1 on Dec 17, 2005 20:46:50 GMT -5
hi all --- if ya get tired of these yell at me hahaha----i did acouple cabs today heres a peak  top left a nice piece of dino bone--right african turq--bottom left blue mountain jasper--right stefonite hope ya like |
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Post by parfive on Dec 17, 2005 21:05:52 GMT -5
Nice Sands.
Will they be wrapped, and wrapped in time for Christmas?
Rich
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Post by sandsman1 on Dec 17, 2005 21:13:00 GMT -5
im sittin here lookin at a small bowl of cabs i picked for wrappin and im still feelin alittle timid about it so it takes a push to get me started -- ill grab the wire and just start one of these minits hahaha
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Post by jdennis on Dec 17, 2005 21:34:35 GMT -5
I love the green one , they're all beautiful..
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Post by docone31 on Dec 17, 2005 21:34:53 GMT -5
Sands wraps are real good! It is fascinating to watch him.
Every time Sands comes over to the shop, he laughs, is just plain decent, fun to be around. If he asks me a question, when I answer or show him how to find out, the fun immediatly stops, he absorbs every detail, and goes off and tries.
I usually burn out a student very quickly. Sands keeps on tickin after taking lickin after lickin. He never quits. Just retreats and tries and tries. As he uses the tools more, and more, his work more reflects how he sees the stones.
I think Sands will outgrow the fleamarket one day. His work is so over their heads. When his wraps match his cutting and polishing, look out!
Jenne and I have watched him grow in the work, and we feel real good at the joy he shows in it. He is drawing a crowd, and I do not mean Sam I Am, Wierd Harold, Big Hair Tina, and Becky the Airhead! He is getting his colourful bunch, but, the people he sells to love the stones, his work, and the chance to see it being done. Fortunatly Sam I Am hasn't broken anything of his lately.
It shall be interesting to see how things progress.
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 17, 2005 21:38:05 GMT -5
Wow Sands. Your cabbing skills are really something! I do believe that's the first time I've seen stefonite cabbed in that manner and its really neat. The geometric shape really makes the pattern more interesting. Keep up the good work....mel
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Post by rockyraccoon on Dec 17, 2005 23:14:29 GMT -5
sands those are great! mel one of his beautiful stefoinite cabs and a flintridge flint cab went over the pond to a collector in the u.k. his pics don't do justice to how beautiful his cabs really are.
kim
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WyckedWyre
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Post by WyckedWyre on Dec 18, 2005 12:18:48 GMT -5
I love that blue mountain jasper. Gonna have to find some slabs of that someday...beautiful work, John, as always. Susan
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Post by Cher on Dec 18, 2005 12:37:20 GMT -5
Sands, I 'm so glad you're back at this again, it's just a joy to see your work.
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Pebbles
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Member since November 2005
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Post by Pebbles on Dec 18, 2005 12:38:27 GMT -5
Those cabs, all of them, are absolutely amazing!!! And you say no polish is used - the shine is like... WOW!!!
Pebbles
ps: I will never get tired of looking at them -- *Standing up & applauding* Encore! Encore!
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 18, 2005 12:50:49 GMT -5
Sands: Still admiring your grat cabochon designs. Hard to tell from the photos. Do these geometrics have a top that is dead flat or is there a slight dome to the cut?...mel
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Post by sandsman1 on Dec 18, 2005 17:34:31 GMT -5
hi mel i allways make a flat face on them i try to keep them my own work this way when ya see one you can tell its mine hahaha --- everybody does round and oval and domed faces so i try to make mine dif from the rest--- and when im done shaping ive seen myself go back and cut a dif angle if it looks too perfect hahaha ---very rare that i cut a perfect shaped stone
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Dec 19, 2005 11:06:05 GMT -5
stunning- just stunning
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