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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 31, 2015 10:45:27 GMT -5
That was a Johns-Manville plant in Cal. The glass balls were about 5/8" diameter. They were clear with a slight yellowish tint, and were full of air bubbles. Somewhere in all of my junk I still have a few. Kept them as a reminder of just how miserable it is to work in a plant where they make fiberglass insulation.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 30, 2015 23:16:33 GMT -5
The moss is only for the polish stage. If you have fairly smooth cuts, start your first grind with 220 grit.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 28, 2015 20:04:52 GMT -5
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim Terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Lets have a look at the evidence:
- No Christmas
- No television
- No nude women
- No football
- No pork chops
- No hot dogs
- No burgers
- No beer - No bacon
- Rags for clothes
- Towels for hats
- Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower - More than one wife
More than one mother in law
- You can't shave
- Your wife can't shave
- You can't wash off the smell of donkey - You cook over burning camel shit - Your wife is picked by someone else for you
- and your wife smells worse than your donkey Then they tell you that "when you die, it all gets better"?? Well no Shit, Sherlock!.... It's not like it could get much worse
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 24, 2015 11:37:56 GMT -5
Just one question. Why no pics coming in from Q ?
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 23, 2015 15:56:44 GMT -5
Dh is off for the holidays starting today and the kids will be off this afternoon. So, I don't know how much I'll be here for the next week. I wanted to make sure I said my Merry Christmas to my rock family. No matter what is going on with me in my life, I know I can come here and find some normalcy (usually) and some nice soothing rock chatter. It's good for the soul. So, thank you all for such a wonderful community and Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holiday to all of you. Normalcy ? You dare to call rockhounds normal ? Anyway, to those of you lucky enough to live where there is no snow, enjoy & have a Merry Christmas & a new year filled with lots of beautiful rocks. As for those of us living in the frozen northlands, I wish you a Merry Bah Humbug. Drag out those shovels & snow blowers. Put on those long johns & tire chains & settle in for a few months of snow blindness. There ain't gonna be any shiny new discoveries in the new year until after spring thaw. HO HO HO
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 21, 2015 22:41:57 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 21, 2015 17:57:26 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 21, 2015 10:48:04 GMT -5
I have 2 saws on wheels. Why not a cab machine ? Just be sure to build the cart at a comfortable height for your wife to work at.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 19, 2015 16:23:46 GMT -5
Here's one of my Rogerly's. I have a couple of small specimens. Love ultraviolet reactive minerals.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 19, 2015 16:12:06 GMT -5
Dang, that's a beauty. Wish my wife would buy me things like that for Christmas.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 18, 2015 17:33:55 GMT -5
Three strangers strike up a conversation in the airport lounge in Bozeman, Montana , awaiting their flights. One is an American Indian, passing thru from Lame Deer. Another is a cowboy on his way to Billings for a livestock show. And the third is a fundamentalist Arab student from the Middle East, newly arrived at Montana State University . Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon, the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim and the conversation falls into an uneasy lull. The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table and tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside is blowing tumbleweeds around and the old windsock is flapping, but still no plane comes. Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly speaks. "At one time here, my people were many, but sadly, now we are few." The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward, "Once my people were few," he sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?" The Montana cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth, and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a drawl, "That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet, but I do believe it's a-comin'".
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 18, 2015 13:34:23 GMT -5
This is Lame Johnny Creek agate from just outside of Custer State Park to the S.E. Very similar to a Fairburn. I collected this from the Lame Johnny Creek road cut in early spring. Spring thaws had broken it loose from the road cut.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 18, 2015 13:31:03 GMT -5
These are Tee Pee canyon. Not at all like Fairburns. But they are much sought after & cut beautiful cabs.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 17, 2015 20:10:44 GMT -5
Those were a couple of beauties. My first find back around 94 was just a large chip, but it started my obsession with Fairburns. I now have around 180 of them. Some collected. Some boughten, and some gifted by fellow Fairburn hunters. Here's that first one. And the pride of my collection. Both halves of a broken Fairburn. Both found on the same day, and within yards of each other.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 17, 2015 17:54:15 GMT -5
Need to go dig out my old circumference rule.
According to the old circumference rule 8" C would equal just over 2-5/8" dia.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 17, 2015 17:06:26 GMT -5
Yup, that's our USPS. A couple years ago a package coming to me in S.D. from Utah went all the way to the Domican Republic. Sat there for a week, and finally traveled another week back up to S.D.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 17, 2015 17:00:47 GMT -5
Rob No snobs here. Very few in SD have anything to be snobbish about and I sure don't. Yes there is a lot here to see especially if you get off the beaten path. I was of the opinion that there were no rocks in the eastern part of the state worth looking at until I picked up a nice piece of red granite from a rock pile in the corner of a cleared field. Now I am like a one eyed dog in a meat market. There are a number of terminal moraines around here and they are full of rocks. Not the fancy types you might see for sale at Quartzite but interesting ones that you could make into beautiful decoration with a little imagination. Well, now I've got you narrowed down to east river. What town are you in ? I know the S.E has some rocks, but up here in the N.E. I only find tumbler size pieces of agate similar to Montana moss & pet wood. Moved up here in 96, and have found exactly 1 agate large enough to cut a couple slabs.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 17, 2015 12:25:19 GMT -5
There's a chance with signers that if you cut them, you may uncover better patterns inside. This only works with a small percentage of signers, but what do you have to loose by trying ? I have 3 or 4 here that I plan to cut this winter. I'm a purest Fairburn collector, and generally don't condone cutting or even polishing a Fairburn. But in the case of signers you have little to loose, and possibly much to gain.
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 16, 2015 22:22:01 GMT -5
Welcome aboard Fireforged. You've just met another South Dakota rockhound. I'm up in Aberdeen. Got saws from 16" down to a little 3". Genie for grinding & polishing along with several other arbors. 10" & 15" flat laps. A bunch of odds & ends equipment.(I like to play with & restore vintage lapidary equipment). Bunches of rocks, A mineral collection & fossils. Got bored with tumbling & gave my tumblers to a friend. I'm also retired. As for keeping young, I think I'm starting to fossilize.
Don
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Post by jakesrocks on Dec 16, 2015 17:01:50 GMT -5
Gotta be the Inland flat lap. Within 15 minutes the water control valve broke. Piece of junk, but their diamond laps are OK. (Just OK).
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