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Post by Bluesky78987 on Oct 4, 2017 10:04:23 GMT -5
Those are great! I like that little lace - but also that dollar bin cab - wow!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Oct 3, 2017 8:14:58 GMT -5
Beauties, all of them! So hard to choose!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Oct 1, 2017 14:44:05 GMT -5
That was the Ameritool 4". With a 5" blade from John. Still pleased with it.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Oct 1, 2017 12:14:43 GMT -5
Hi Lee. Yes, I got one of those perp-its. It was a good value, but it's hard to get it set up to where you get a true right angle every time. I like it, but I still have to eyeball and use a T-square. Anybody who is pretty good at eyeballing things can do intarsia without a doohickey. If eyeballing isn't your thing though, maybe consider it.
Pat thanks for the great tutorial! It's fun to see the different teaching methods. My teacher used Krazy glue (the gel kind). And wax paper. I like the idea of the Acetone.
Tela, yeah, you really want to have a tiny little indoor saw to make this fun. It's kind of a constant "saw, glue, saw, lap, repeat."
After pic #7 I would trim off the howlite with the saw, and grind the rest down on the flat lap, unless it's something hard and annoying to grind. I've been sticking with soft material so far because of that.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Oct 1, 2017 10:54:42 GMT -5
Woo hoo, love the last minute entries and the variety of chotoyant stones!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 14:25:46 GMT -5
Interesting, thanks. I hope they don't sell it, I want to go there in 2018!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 10:19:07 GMT -5
JOhn's right about the 8". Even with the Ameritool 8", since a big circle at the center is unavailable for using due to the mounting spindle, you are kind of cramped for space, and you need lots of space with a flat lap to swirl your cab around in arcs or circles. I like my Ameritool just fine, and the motor is a champ. Having learned on that though and switching to wheels later, I'd advise people to go to wheels right away. Mortgage your car/house/spouse if necessary. ;-)
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 9:55:48 GMT -5
Well one thing I think is that different blades are designed to be run at different RPMs, so you have to take that into account. Mine are mostly fixed speed, but my one variable speed I always run at max speed anyway. (I'm assuming you're talking about RPMs versus feed rate).
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 9:53:15 GMT -5
That's some really pretty material. Glad some of it is holding together. was... I mapped out a couple of solid spots for cabbing today and its breaking in places where no fractures are showing even under magnification. Frustrating but too purty to give up on. First, I have to say just hoooowwww soooo very jealous I am of that rock! And that whole trip. Anyway. That piece is extremely beautiful, I hope you can get some cabs from it. You might have to do the drop test with the slabs, find out what shapes want to stay together.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 9:45:17 GMT -5
Nice, I really like that setting for that stone.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 9:43:46 GMT -5
Love the green plumes. That's a beauty. What did that stone look like in the rough?
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 30, 2017 9:36:05 GMT -5
Yeah really nice job Dave! I especially like the local finds!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 26, 2017 10:11:45 GMT -5
A little too far for me unfortunately.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 26, 2017 9:57:37 GMT -5
I like it too! Love those tubes.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 23, 2017 15:20:43 GMT -5
Or it could be purpurite. Which is cabable, but the purple needs to be brought out with mild acid afterwards.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 23, 2017 15:19:43 GMT -5
Something-in-quartz is my guess. Brilliant deduction huh? I like them though.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 23, 2017 15:16:36 GMT -5
It looks like a distant cousin to that Kaleidescope Jasper they're mining in (?) Oregon. Pretty.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 23, 2017 15:06:43 GMT -5
That's beautiful! I made a cab of it once, and it cabbed up well enough, but the copper promptly oxidized. Better sell those with a sunshine cloth! Or wax them or something. Fun material.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 19, 2017 20:49:13 GMT -5
My biggest regret is a lost buying opportunity, like I'm sure lots of you have . . . my first year going to Quartzsite, there was a booth selling this weird petrified wood. It was pretty expensive, but not ridiculous. I said "maybe next year when I'm more experienced with cabbing" . . . turned out to be the last year Service Station Gems brought their Hell's Canyon Petrified Wood to Quartzsite . . . sigh.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Sept 19, 2017 20:36:18 GMT -5
Love the idea! Get's me thinking!
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