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Post by Tommy on Jul 21, 2022 20:13:01 GMT -5
snuffy - another near miss birthday ... someone's been sleep on the job today (or working a long day, one of the two). Hope you had a great day and got to play with shiny objects at some point.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 21, 2022 20:11:08 GMT -5
Garage Rocker Almost missed it Hope you and your crew are all healthy and happy and that you had a great day.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 21, 2022 10:11:42 GMT -5
My name is Chris. I was born and raised in Petoskey, Michigan (guess what I have a lot of in the basement). I went to college at MTU in Houghton, Michigan (another great place for rocks). I had a roommate who was into rocks and lapidary and I learned a lot from him. I moved to the Kansas City area in 1980 and didn't have too much time to do anything with rocks until I retired. Bought some equipment last year and have been sawing and polishing away since then. I had thought that there wasn't too much of interest, pertaining to rocks, in the Kansas City area but much to my surprise I have found a lot of interesting, banded chert, jasper, petrified wood, and even the occasional agate on the creeks on our property and on my neighbor's land. I saw someone say that they had learned a lot from the Michigan Rocks guy on YouTube and I agree. Welcome from Napa Chris!
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Post by Tommy on Jul 20, 2022 21:26:41 GMT -5
It's weird, my wife didn't seem overly enthused when I mentioned making an offer on the entire collection. I don't get it. They said they would help load! Maybe at $0.050 a pound I would buy it all haha I like Karen and Chris but I've seen a lot of listings and been to a lot of their live online sales and I'm guessing that not very many $10/lb rocks slipped under the radar... just sayin.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 20, 2022 13:38:10 GMT -5
markb nursetumbler Any time Kelly! I think it’s the B part. When tagging someone most of us just put@ and whatever their screen name shows up as even though their tagging name can be different. So people see Mark so they do @ mark and it tags 1mark instead. TommyCan you remedy the above problem? Sorry, I have no controls over changing usernames etc. and once an account is made the username is permanent. My advice would be to change your "display name" (different from your username) to MarkB because it would help folks know how to tag you correctly. Tagging markb (username) and markb (display name) would both work. Tagging @markb (username) and @MarkB (display name) would both work.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 20, 2022 13:25:41 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on Jul 19, 2022 13:07:42 GMT -5
*bump* these are super cool and tumbled ROTARY if you can believe it.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 19, 2022 13:04:55 GMT -5
*bump* I was looking through the birthday list today and stumbled on this solid gold vintage thread. These days we think of tumbling flats as something that should be left to the vibe machines but this gentleman was banging out some REALLY nice looking pieces. Terry664 you last stopped by in 2014 but happy birthday and I hope you're still enjoying the arts and doing well. I fixed the photos in this thread and one other thread I found (butterflies) but SO many of your photos are lost to the damage that PhotoBucket did to the entire internet. If you're still getting notifications from the forum please stop in and say hello and lets talk about how you accomplished these creations.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 19, 2022 12:21:56 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on Jul 15, 2022 22:26:25 GMT -5
Very nice cab! Beautiful colors in the stone.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 15, 2022 14:01:30 GMT -5
We got my son a DeWalt 16" cordless for a housewarming gift and he loves it. Says it's an absolute beast.
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??? Jasper
Jul 15, 2022 13:58:37 GMT -5
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Post by Tommy on Jul 15, 2022 13:58:37 GMT -5
I agree it's some kind of jasper based on what I can test right now. No clue on where it was collected. My first thought was tiger tail based on the colors but I think that has chatoyancy?
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Post by Tommy on Jul 14, 2022 15:24:28 GMT -5
Updated 3/29/2024
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Post by Tommy on Jul 14, 2022 14:46:50 GMT -5
Sorry everyone for not getting pics up but cannot get this cloudinary to work. Have a rock club coming Sat for field trip to my rock yard. I will get pics posted to website. I give some good deals since I have been slow in posting. Thanks bstone I can help you get photos uploaded here if you are still interested in selling here.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 13, 2022 20:47:18 GMT -5
jamesp ! Glad you are OK brother. That could have gone a lot lot worse Thanks Tommy and you are so right. You see why I keep looking in mirror to verify survival ! You could have the missus pinch you to see if you're still here. I suspect that after what you've been up to that pinch might leave quite a mark . Do your friends a favor and please install a roll cage on that beast before you ride her again...
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Post by Tommy on Jul 13, 2022 9:19:48 GMT -5
jamesp! Glad you are OK brother. That could have gone a lot lot worse
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Post by Tommy on Jul 12, 2022 9:50:36 GMT -5
I'm still following along here. What a really interesting material you have there. You might have already answered this but when you do the scratch test are the brown areas are as hard as the blue or do they scratch?
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Post by Tommy on Jul 10, 2022 19:02:59 GMT -5
Wonderful!
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Post by Tommy on Jul 9, 2022 12:59:41 GMT -5
Thanks Tommy, I only got lucky that the voids in the slag that opened up, only added to the moons appearance, any other shape & it would have been in the scrap bin. Thats right! Two in a row. For some reason I was thinking there had been another one in between. Congrats! I don't remember us having a back to back winner before - I'll have to check.
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Post by Tommy on Jul 9, 2022 8:07:57 GMT -5
liveoak Patty congratulations on another win on heels of your first win, this time with your beautiful moon creation. I can't even imagine the difficulty on that one in keeping it together and thin while managing a large inside curve.
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