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Post by stardiamond on Oct 8, 2023 14:28:26 GMT -5
10-12 and 17-20 are still available.
My break from grinding has required me to trim my fingernails.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 7, 2023 17:30:54 GMT -5
I mentioned that the new tape was stickier than what I used before.
I originally bought the tape to dop with. Here's a hint, it didn't work.
I would start with soaking in hot soapy water.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 7, 2023 11:56:48 GMT -5
Better material, better polish.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 7, 2023 11:05:14 GMT -5
I've spent a lot of time recently organizing and decluttering my house. This probably got me started with the bulk cabs. I have 4 Riker boxes left to make up selections and 20 empty Riker boxes. How many boxes have produced these selections thus far? Was it all 20? Maybe 50 boxes of unsorted cabs. Some were only partially filled and were combined. A selection was around 20 cabs and a Rider box will hold about 50 depending on size.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 20:23:48 GMT -5
19 reserved for geoff59.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 18:01:16 GMT -5
I've spent a lot of time recently organizing and decluttering my house. This probably got me started with the bulk cabs. I have 4 Riker boxes left to make up selections and 20 empty Riker boxes.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 17:14:44 GMT -5
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 15:24:20 GMT -5
Jeez. You are a cabbing machine! I wish it was responsible for me to buy more. I hope you're still selling these in a couple months. If I hold true to my promise to myself that I'll start learning to wrap and get through some cabs, I'm going to get myself another box. Anything in the selections that I made was done more than 10 years ago. What I discovered going through the Riker boxes was the size of my wife's collection. She would bid on cabs at ebay, they would arrive and then be put into boxes. I never paid much attention to what she bought since it wasn't remotely a financial strain. I think she got a lot of great bargains since most things were auctions and a high starting point or a reserve turned off buyers. I found this one which is too good for bulk.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 13:21:15 GMT -5
Selection 20. I have more to create as needed.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 12:43:39 GMT -5
Pictures were not good. I changed the setup.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 12:28:08 GMT -5
A material can have different grades and better material may polish better. Different material can require a different polish. Paul has a special technique for MHPJ that borders on alchemy. I normally polish everything with 100k diamond paste. When I wasn't getting satisfactory results I tried zam. I think the problem was that I needed to refresh my diamond paste. Who's Paul? And how is zam used? With a burr or something? Sorry I know very little about alternative polishing options LOL. Paul is fencejumper. I apply zam to a separate pad, the same as diamond paste. zam comes as a stick and I hold it against the rotating pad to apply.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 12:25:33 GMT -5
Added 18 and 19.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 6, 2023 12:15:51 GMT -5
I don't like the number 13 and I had 4 selections a,b,c,d that I put on facebook so I renumbered after 16.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 5, 2023 20:50:09 GMT -5
A material can have different grades and better material may polish better. Different material can require a different polish. Paul has a special technique for MHPJ that borders on alchemy. I normally polish everything with 100k diamond paste. When I wasn't getting satisfactory results I tried zam. I think the problem was that I needed to refresh my diamond paste.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 5, 2023 17:38:53 GMT -5
I added 12 and 17. I started using tape and cardboard for a customer who made large orders and I would send a picture of the cardboard and cabs to show exactly what was shipped. Fresh tape was used on the third row of 12 and all three rows of 17 is stronger than my previous roll and holds the cab like a boa constrictor. It will take extra time to unstick the cabs.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 4, 2023 21:47:14 GMT -5
Just received my [very full] cigar box! Packaged beautifully, they all made the journey intact. I was hoping the cigar box would smell like cigars, but maybe next time I'll request a more recently used box. 😆 Thank you, Stephen! So many beautiful pieces. I just wish I knew more names than coquina jasper and tigers eye! Some day... Cigars are usually sold with each cigar cellophaned. When a cigar box contains cigars not wrapped in cellophane the box can pick up the oils from the tobacco. There are two types of cigar boxes; all wood Spanish cedar and what is called dress boxes which are wood covered with printed paper. The dress boxes are thin enough to fit in the large flat rate padded envelope which holds more than a small flat rate box and costs about the same.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 4, 2023 21:35:55 GMT -5
Yay, Christmas shopping is done! That's probably the best one stop shopping I've ever seen! My business plan is buy rocks, make cabs, sell cabs, buy better rocks. The ones in the selection I made over 10 years ago. The good stuff is from my wife's collection. I've spent some time sorting cabs but these were in boxes unsorted. I get to go Christmas shopping for rocks.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 4, 2023 19:35:22 GMT -5
Rockoonz 2 and 7 are yours. 10 and 11 remain.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 4, 2023 17:33:40 GMT -5
Rockoonz 2 is yours. 7,10 and 11 are available and I have more to add.
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Post by stardiamond on Oct 4, 2023 17:31:55 GMT -5
brybry 6 is yours. 2,7,10 and 11 are available and I have more to add.
I ran out of the double sided tape and should have some tomorrow.
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