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I have a barrel full of old Richardson Ranch "Blue Bed" eggs, I need to start grabbing a few and cutting... Probably full of cob webs and dust by now... Great photos of your cuts everybody! Thumbs up
When are you not going to be home? always fun to cut eggs!
one more! This is a little one about 1 1/2" across. I had cut it and threw it on my wash table and forgot about it. It got lost in all the rocks!! Found it when I cleaned off the table a few weeks ago and decided it needed to be polished. For the most part, I haven't seen much good out of the small ones.
That's a nice sized piece. I love the patterns in that one...and looks to be a "split" trunk. (Not the correct vernacular there...but you know what I mean! LOL)
If you have ever dug up a tree, you would have seen sections of roots like this. If I was younger I would go back and dig some more of it out. We left some of it in the hole!
This nice chunk of Elm Roots from the Stinking Water mountaians has been sitting out by my shop for a number of years getting bleached out. It was rather dark when cut! Looks like it is time to get back to work on it and do some polishing!
Man oh man that's gorgeous! What's the approximate size of this beauty?
Iforgot to measure it but I would say it is 10 inches or across the face and probably 6 inches tall.
This nice chunk of Elm Roots from the Stinking Water mountaians has been sitting out by my shop for a number of years getting bleached out. It was rather dark when cut! Looks like it is time to get back to work on it and do some polishing!
The only problem I can think of is the heat build up in the box. A few vent holes top and bottom should help that.
There are a couple alternatives for the front. First, you could square the edges of the slab to reduce the complexity of the shape. Second, you could simply cut a piece of wood rather than plexiglass to hold and frame the slab. My concern with the plexiglass is that it may be more translucent than your slab, making the slab have a glowing halo that would make it more difficult to see the patterns in the slab. That is assuming I am envisioning your design properly, which I may not be.
You are envisioning it exactly. You're dead-on with the plexi-glass. It would take away from the illumination of the slab. So I'd need to make that non-opaque.
I don't really want to lose the complexity of the slab. I think that adds to it. If I traced the shape, routed the general shape so there's a "lip" to keep it in the opening, it could be held in place on that lip with an epoxy or glue of some kind...I would think cyanoacrylate would work, depending on the heat from the light source...
I live 35-40 miles south of woodman , we got 1 1/2" of snow over 1/2" of ice. I've got enough 2-3" and smaller stuff down to keep my chipper busy for about half a day. Big piece of cedar tree came down on the road a little west of here.
Lost a few limbs off of a Doug fir but we escaped the ice storm that you tshose east of you got. Still a lot of people without power.
You guys sure did. Looks like you've got a lot of precipitation in the forecast for the next 10 days as well. It's Oregon though...of course there's precip in the forecast. I hope the white stuff doesn't stay around too long for you guys.
A lot of freezing rain in the area south of us and a lot of down power lines. So far we have not had the ice storm but will find out my morning what is going to happen.
I don't always show my wife everything on here...only the truly amazing things I see...I showed her what you've been doing here Bob. Her jaw dropped as far as mine did the first time I saw it. What you've been able to do with this behemoth is just flat out stunning.
Thanks, This stuff is hard to lap and sand, but it really take a good polish. better in person than the video taken on an overcast day.
holy cow Robert thats fantastic and most dont know that Arizona wood is the hardest to flatlap due to chipping !Iam glad to see you post i was getting worried about you almost called you friday but i got busy and forgot
Doing good, still cutting on the agates! Got three wind chimes made and a lot more slabs to get drilled and polished!! For that size of slab I really needed a bigger flat lap!!, But it worked out. A abit more polishing on this one and then back to the Stinking Water ones!
Bob, I can't tell how thick that slab is. Did you back it with anything to prevent breaking? Can you handle it by yourself or do you need more hands to manage it?
It is an end cut so the thicken varies, from 3 inches to 1 inch and it is just about all i can lift. did some damage moving it with my front end loader. Got wife to help me move it back into the shop yesterday after cleaning.
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