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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:26:54 GMT -5
Man I so wish I purchased a dissecting scope with a built in camera. Slabs and such look so cool through the scope but it's hard to attach an after market camera to my scope....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 21, 2017 16:21:42 GMT -5
Nice! I can see why you treasure them....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 20, 2017 19:47:51 GMT -5
Holy sharksh*t Batman that is just too cool and what great photogrpahy....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 19, 2017 6:54:59 GMT -5
More of a Rand Paul southerner here. I believe in conservative use of ammo. Like the old rhyme goes, "Two in the heart, one in the head, makes damn sure he's good and dead."
Adam, if you've never shot a gun before, you'd better stick to shooting at center mass. Took my video game playing nephew out on the ranch because he wanted to shoot a pistol. He soon found out playing first person shooter games does not make you a real shooter. Barely hit the side of the mountain and almost dropped the gun to boot. Scared him half to death. Knee capping would have been a totally unrealistic expectation. *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 22:39:40 GMT -5
What taxidermist? Just hang that there, too ugly fer the wall, carcass off'n a barbed wire fence,
If this was in Commiefornia, dumbocrats of course would then charge you a tax for the bullets, check to see you had a background check for the gun and ammo, fine you for a high capacity magazine, claim yore gun was a machine gun, and claim you committed a hate crime and arrest your for not having your gun and ammo locked up separately. Then, they'd round up several thousand other terrorists and link arms with them in a protest march and do nothing while the marchers rioted and burnt down half their city. And then they'd go on TV and blame Trump...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 16:56:48 GMT -5
Wow those are really nice! The flint preforms are my favorites too. Boy, I've collected a lot of Mariposite and that sure don't look anything like it. Looks more translucent and jade like to me. You sure of that ID? Is it soft like Mariposite..Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 6:53:19 GMT -5
Conglomerate, just rock fragments sealed together. Looks almost like a hunk of eroded asphalt sealed road roadbed, which is essentially a man made conglomerate....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 18, 2017 6:48:10 GMT -5
Those South Dakota mixes are so fun. The Prairies are especially nice.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 17, 2017 21:02:19 GMT -5
Yep, green yellow and red chert, often brecciated too, is very common throughout the Franciscan Formation all up and down the Commiefornia coast. Many are called jasper but they are of marine origin so they are chert. One real gemmy green variety from up near Stone Canyon is called Boar Canyon or Hog Canyon Jasper and examples show up on the beaches now and then....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 17, 2017 18:40:43 GMT -5
Definitely a fossil agate. Maybe a crinoid column or chambers of a fossil gastropod.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 17, 2017 7:03:15 GMT -5
Nope, not Rosebud agate. Conglomerate....mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 16, 2017 15:57:36 GMT -5
Wow, you are such a great cabber! I've not seen any quite like your agate variety, though I have heard it termed Rosebud Agate. Both cabs are beautiful, but like you, I much prefer the light green background jasper type. To confuse the issue, there used to be ( extinct now?) an agate type from the South Cadys near Ludlow too called rosebud or rose agate. And there is a rhyolite type from Afton Canyon but without green. I went and forgot a sixty pound boulder of the Ludlow stuff in the garden when I moved to Texas. The Ludlow material is very pitty though and is best done as a doublet...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 15, 2017 20:07:01 GMT -5
Hmmm. I have some too and thought it was too soft to be garnet but then maybe my example has more zoisite and the slab is mixed hardness...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 15, 2017 19:07:49 GMT -5
If you do much fine grinding in a UV-10 bowl you will cut through the bowl bottom edges fairly fast. I never did coarse grind in the vibe. Those black shaving are your bowl being ground away. As some have stated, fresh ceramic will make the situation worse. That "picture jasper" does look more like the picture or scenic sandstone out of Utah. Can't remember for sure where it's from. African Queen/Kalihari Pictuure jasper looks similar but is harder and has finer grain but does not go past a satin finish in the tumble....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 15, 2017 7:50:46 GMT -5
Those Diablo winds bring out the firebugs in droves too but I also had heard it was electric lines sparking. We had a firebug up by our Commiefornia ranch one time that, when caught, turned out to be a part time volunteer firefighter that wanted the work hours. Some people huh?.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 15, 2017 7:44:26 GMT -5
I too have had very good luck buying from the Rockshed and Riverbend. I use them mainly for exotic materials and have been very pleased with their quality though Riverbend material is usually not crushed so you have to saw it or break it up....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 14, 2017 16:56:28 GMT -5
The exterior is usually kind of pale and crusty looking. All I've had is vein material, not nodules and the greenish matrix that contains the red inclusions varies from light to dark greenish. Hardness/porosity seems to vary. Some is quite silicated and takes a nice polish and some just a high satin finish. I've seen some very pretty stones made of it but these days it only seems to show up in old collections...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 14, 2017 12:12:29 GMT -5
Dang, them there metrosexual beauty shops do wonders to pretty a feller up *L*....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 14, 2017 12:06:33 GMT -5
Yeah, that RoseBud Jasper/Rosebud Agate/ Rose Rock came from the Layton Ranch just inside Oklahoma from the Colorado/ New Mexico/Oklahoma three corners area. Old material and I haven't seen new stuff from there in years. To me, more of a rhyolite type material than a true agate or jasper. Point of info. Some maps I have show it as in New Mexico, some in Oklahoma. Think the ranch itself may be right on the border..Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 13, 2017 6:50:05 GMT -5
Yeah, Bob, you would say that *L*...Mel
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