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Post by woodman on Jan 18, 2020 15:40:58 GMT -5
This one is Stinking Water Golden Oak. part of a root ball we dug a few years ago. 14 inches by 17 inches or there about! Stunning!!! How thick is the cut? Are you going to polish it? (sorry for all the questions) Henry It is cut about an inch think, you can't tell from the photo but it has a mirror polish.
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Post by woodman on Jan 18, 2020 13:45:03 GMT -5
This one is Stinking Water Golden Oak. part of a root ball we dug a few years ago. 14 inches by 17 inches or there about!
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Post by woodman on Jan 18, 2020 10:47:26 GMT -5
At first I thought you had a big slab with a limb coming off of it. Now looks like you've got a piece of white that might be slightly translucent. We got a couple of little pieces with other colors mixed into the white, and the little slabs were beauties.
No matter what it is, that stuff polishes up like glass. It immediately became one of my favorite things to cut.
The small piece that you are calling white is really a nice light blue color that is pretty common in Hubbard Basin wood. I use the two pieces and then shot a video of it rotating, but the videos don't want to show up on here if they are too large of a file. The slab was rip cut or what some call a board cut. I like the effect.
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Post by woodman on Jan 18, 2020 10:43:19 GMT -5
Amazing piece. How large is it? The slab is 8 inches by 14 inches.
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Post by woodman on Jan 17, 2020 23:09:51 GMT -5
never could spell and can't type either!
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Post by woodman on Jan 17, 2020 14:52:28 GMT -5
wood on wood!
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Post by woodman on Jan 16, 2020 14:44:44 GMT -5
The Oregon weather has been wet and cold so instead of getting out in the shop and doing some work, I have been playing with camera. Petrified Oak from the Stinking Water mountains here in Oregon. hopefully the video shows up!
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Post by woodman on Jan 14, 2020 10:02:32 GMT -5
I like to raise the wiper blades before a snow or freezing rain event, makes it easier to get them cleaned off. Subaru get to park in a nice dry garage but my Ford truck lives outside! Cats will not go out in the rain or cold!
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Post by woodman on Jan 14, 2020 10:00:16 GMT -5
Glad I moved from the great white north - Can't stand snow anymore... Have fun... Don't tell them about Oregon weather, oh by he way woke to snow this morning, just a dusting.
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Post by woodman on Jan 8, 2020 14:20:24 GMT -5
the COLOR IS TOTALLY WRONG, it is really a blue grey agate. will do better after i get one polished. im going to be in the area this coming sunday i may have to stop by and see for my self If you have them, bring me a couple hundred worth of Brazilian agates. will be home all day Sunday!
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Agate
Jan 6, 2020 23:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by woodman on Jan 6, 2020 23:04:54 GMT -5
the COLOR IS TOTALLY WRONG, it is really a blue grey agate. will do better after i get one polished.
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Post by woodman on Jan 6, 2020 23:02:58 GMT -5
Hard to get a good photo of it!
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Agate
Jan 6, 2020 17:31:54 GMT -5
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Post by woodman on Jan 6, 2020 17:31:54 GMT -5
The 1 1/2" inch piece I am cutting has some real nice iris effect in it. will have polish to be able to get a good photo of it.
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Post by woodman on Jan 6, 2020 16:28:25 GMT -5
I was looking thru a box of agates looking from something to cut and found this one. 4 x 5 inches Decided it was too good the way it is and found something else to cut!
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Post by woodman on Jan 6, 2020 13:15:42 GMT -5
Thanks all, wet one here today, need to get out in the shop and build a fire and get lapping!!
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Post by woodman on Jan 3, 2020 11:27:26 GMT -5
I got buckets of good stuff from my flat lap runoff!! even got some grit in it, would work good.
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Post by woodman on Dec 31, 2019 17:11:58 GMT -5
Well I can tell you what it is not! It is not Oak, it is not palm, it is not sycamore. It does look like a conifer. would really need microscopic photo to tell and even then sometimes it is just a guess. I would not, at this point, rule out any of the other species from Stinking water, but I can almost talk myself into seeing resin canals, which would rule out any of he hardwoods. time to invest in a cheap USB microscope and look for cells. this is Oak. The grain on my piece is similar to a slab of metasequoia that I have. metasequotia has been found at stinking water.
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Post by woodman on Dec 31, 2019 13:46:42 GMT -5
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Post by woodman on Dec 30, 2019 22:04:01 GMT -5
This is Stinking Water Oak !!!! one i was working on today!!! In just looking at this photo, there is little that most would see that would lead them to believe that was oak. Point is it is hard to tell from a photo what anything is.
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Post by woodman on Dec 30, 2019 21:59:47 GMT -5
for one its a conifer sycamore has rays not rings my first though was from sweet home area how ever i have seen yhis type from stinking water as well so interested in what the old man says woodman is a expert in stinking water area in my book anyways Old man? I won't be 75 till Monday, be nice! I also really think it is a conifer, but with out seeing the cells it is impossible to say for sure. even then it is hard.
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