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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 28, 2017 10:13:36 GMT -5
I have a slab of I think Virginia moonstone (pale grey with very strong white flash). It seemed to be cut like you would cut labradorite or obsidian. Orient stone so it is flashing you as strongly as possible, then cut perpindicular to that. I made one little cab from it and it came out fine with a normal dome. The piece toiv0 posted is much prettier with the color though.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 27, 2017 8:32:15 GMT -5
Nice stuff! Love those fortifications.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 26, 2017 9:59:03 GMT -5
Love that 3rd one down. So much going on. Yeah me too, that's a keeper for sure.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 26, 2017 9:57:38 GMT -5
I like the first one and last one best. Fun to rediscover some rocks.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 26, 2017 9:56:24 GMT -5
Sweet! Those should make some beautiful cabs, esp if the red plumes in the matrix don't pit.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 24, 2017 10:25:52 GMT -5
Woweeeeee! Yummy!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 24, 2017 10:24:16 GMT -5
It wasn't me, but I remember her asking.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 24, 2017 10:21:56 GMT -5
What Chuck said - I'd go for a couple killer ones in a batch.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 24, 2017 10:15:13 GMT -5
Beautiful - shape suits the stone very well.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 23, 2017 8:34:12 GMT -5
It's soooooo booooooooring! Audiobooks help a lot. ;-) (Bluetooth earbuds if you're worried about catching the wire).
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 21:08:57 GMT -5
Then you can help me decide which ones make the cut. Will a bracelet decided on by a committee look like a camel? It might, but I am the grand poobah and will intervene to prevent such a calamity.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 11:04:35 GMT -5
That does look like Tiffany, but with unusually strong dendrites and unusually little healed fractures/brecciation. I'm about 50/50 between Tiffany and dendritic opal of some sort.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 9:22:08 GMT -5
Wow aventurescence. Cool word! Sounds like what happens when Blue spooks a turkey off her nest, a big ole aventurescence. Hell, he aventuresces all over the dang place in four directions at once *L*....Mel ROTFLMAO Mel! I'm gonna need a video of that . . . I'm cracking myself up with the mental image.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 9:19:46 GMT -5
Hi all. I'll take pictures later in the day when the sun is higher. Morning sun here makes bad pictures for me. I have the survivors from the new batch shaped on rough grind and a couple finished with 325 wheel. I have the survivors from the original grind up to 1200. (I've been busy with other life things). I should have them all finished by the end of the weekend though, hoping. Then you can help me decide which ones make the cut.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 9:10:48 GMT -5
Can you post a picture of the rough side of the stone? I was thinking Tiffany too and it has a pretty distinctive rough look.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 9:06:34 GMT -5
Fantastic! I've been wanting to go there. Trip reports please, both of you!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 22, 2017 9:04:17 GMT -5
OMFG I had no idea such a lovely thing existed! Must have some!!!!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 20, 2017 22:50:19 GMT -5
Cool, thanks Jeri.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 19, 2017 17:28:05 GMT -5
Cool Craig, if you're interested in organizing something, I might be interested. Thanks for the info on the road conditions - I'd just rent a small SUV then and hitch up the steep parts. You can keep the gnarly driving - I like it only mildly hairy!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 19, 2017 9:09:11 GMT -5
I'm always a sucker for bone. Those yellow cells are killer!
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