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Post by joe on Dec 16, 2005 11:17:24 GMT -5
Ok. You have some new rock to put in the tumbler and you hope for the best. There will surely be a beauty in the bunch. After the first week you open the tumbler and most of the stone is shaping up nicely. However, tucked away in the bottom is a piece of stone so foul, so undercut and vuggy that you don't even want this thing in your home or yard. That's what I wanna see! Here is my ugly rough:  Show me worse! |
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Dec 16, 2005 13:11:22 GMT -5
Dang Not sure I can beat that- That is some UGLY rough- No actually it is fillerite
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Post by joe on Dec 16, 2005 13:24:45 GMT -5
That is the ugliest piece of jasper on Earth!
I have much better quality fillerite.
Joe
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Dec 16, 2005 13:28:21 GMT -5
OMG that is jasper- WOW that is ugly I was guessing like some vuggy adventurine or something- Yuck
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Post by joe on Dec 16, 2005 13:32:46 GMT -5
I have worked with aventurine from three different sources. It is never vuggy. There will be some cruddy pieces but I've never seen a vug in it!
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Post by LCARS on Dec 16, 2005 17:39:54 GMT -5
Hmmmm, I'll see what I can dig up... Don't know if I can top that one though.
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Post by Alice on Dec 16, 2005 18:06:10 GMT -5
I don't have anything like that Joe, but this is the 2 pounds of Mexican lace that I ordered from Mine run Gems a while back . Don't they just want to make you cry? Good money well spent! NOT!!!  |
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Post by joe on Dec 16, 2005 19:16:23 GMT -5
Wow Alice, there is only supposed to be a little ugly rough in a rock batch. Not all of it. Sorry to hear of you bad experience. Mine is just one tiny bad piece (quarter size). The rest of the batch is nice stone and is in polish until next week.
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Post by Alice on Dec 16, 2005 21:05:25 GMT -5
my entire 2 pound order was crap rock. Man was I ticked when they said "Sure send it back, but please include $XX for shipping, so we can send you rocks of the exact same quality"
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Post by sandsman1 on Dec 16, 2005 21:12:32 GMT -5
Alice i would send them through sometime they can fool ya and be completely dif inside--- you might get a nice surprise
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Post by Alice on Dec 16, 2005 21:21:34 GMT -5
Sands, I was able to break a few of these rocks by hand.
All they're good for is making slurry, if anything
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fatrichie
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Post by fatrichie on Dec 16, 2005 21:34:50 GMT -5
That is an ugly piece of Jasper Joe, and poor Alice, mexican leaverite. Bad enough the go out and find leaverite, but to unknowingly buy it!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 16, 2005 23:54:04 GMT -5
Wow Joe, that is one ugly hunk of rock. I try to avoid putting grit catchers like that in my tumbler. Don't hink I have one that can even come close.
Alice: That has got to be the junkiest lace agate I've seen ever! Thanks for warning all of us about those guys. Talk about a place to not order from....Jeez!
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Post by rockds on Dec 17, 2005 0:23:07 GMT -5
wow and I thought i had some bad ones but I've never seen anything that bad before
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Dec 17, 2005 5:05:31 GMT -5
Ooooh, Alice wins!
Wow, who'd you order that from again? .... Mine Run Crap? You gotta post that as a warning in the vendors section, if you haven't already done so.
The only good in this is that you only ordered 2 lbs.... imagine if you'd ordered 20 lbs!!!
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Post by Alice on Dec 17, 2005 5:28:55 GMT -5
Rollingstone, I already posted up a warning a while back when I first got them (about 8 or 9? months ago). I saw Joe's thread for ugly rough and dug the picture up from photo bucket.
now if I can only find that thread (I'm pretty sure I posted it up in the general section)
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Post by Condor on Dec 17, 2005 17:05:37 GMT -5
You can't get any uglier than this "ruff." Oh wait, you're talking about "rough" not "ruff, ruff."  Condor |
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Post by Alice on Dec 17, 2005 17:44:26 GMT -5
Nice dog Condor. What does it like to eat?  |
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Post by joe on Dec 17, 2005 18:40:21 GMT -5
It eats ugly rocks!
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Dec 19, 2005 15:07:34 GMT -5
Alice I remeber this stuff- Did you ever do anything with it? maybe use it as driveway fill?
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