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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 20:57:32 GMT -5
Your attention to detail pays off on a big scale Randy. Both in your photos and your tumbling practice. Unreal, calendar stuff. One of the best photos posted here.
Thanks, James. Those KY agates make as good a macro pic as anything else.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 20:16:26 GMT -5
Consider it advertising. They were very impressed! How can one not be impressed by spectrolite? True! How does one feel about being 'reference material'? Haha! Like if you look up 'wire wrapping' in the dictionary?
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 19:55:15 GMT -5
If I must admit, I borrowed a couple images for my presentation. I always heard it was easier to ask forgiveness than permission, so I took some liberties. I used the following two images to illustrate what can be done with rocks, as far as cabbing and jewelry is concerned. Sorry, rockjunquie and Tommy , there will be no royalties from this one time, non-profit presentation to a bunch of 6th graders in KY. Hope you don't mind. You were both referenced as 'friends that work wonders with rocks'.
I'm flattered that you wanted to steal for me. LOL!!! Consider it advertising. They were very impressed!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 19:21:14 GMT -5
If I must admit, I borrowed a couple images for my presentation. I always heard it was easier to ask forgiveness than permission, so I took some liberties. I used the following two images to illustrate what can be done with rocks, as far as cabbing and jewelry is concerned. Sorry, rockjunquie and Tommy, there will be no royalties from this one time, non-profit presentation to a bunch of 6th graders in KY. Hope you don't mind. You were both referenced as 'friends that work wonders with rocks'.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 17:20:11 GMT -5
Good on you. I am impressed by anyone that will take the time to teach kids new things. I had the opportunity to do the same when my daughter was teaching seventh and eighth grade students. My presentation was on rock carving and my trip to China. The kids were like magnets after the slide show and I brought out the rocks. They loved it but I don't think they loved it nearly as much as I did. Middle school kids are a hoot because they are still really curious but not so old they have developed an attitude. Jim Thanks, Jim. I enjoyed sharing what I know with the kids. I told them up front, I'm not a geologist and I don't know near enough about the rocks I work with and how they were made, but I have a curiosity and an appreciation for them. That keeps me interested and learning each day. Hopefully, it will do the same for them...whatever their interests are. There is no excuse for not being informed these days, with the wealth of knowledge at our fingertips. I bet there will be a few google searches for 'tumbled stones' this weekend.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 13:18:02 GMT -5
Thanks, Mel. #19 is from a nice piece of Lavic aDave sent me. Wow...that's awesome! I don't think I've ever seen any pattern(s) like that on what I've tumbled. I'd have never guessed that was Lavic, but seeing your red stained hands tells me that was found when you were cutting up the stuff. Great piece. Yup, looks like Mary Ellen or something, but it came from you. Here is the rock I cut it from. And tumble ready Lavic.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 12:49:34 GMT -5
Sounds like a wonderful trip! Look forward to the pics. Happy hunting.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 12:40:18 GMT -5
Wowser! What a great batch. #19 is really awesome...Mel Thanks, Mel. #19 is from a nice piece of Lavic aDave sent me.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 10:31:02 GMT -5
Nice Bowls So ... how many bowls of rocks do you have ? Sometimes I will show a young person my polished rocks and they will pickup a handful and drop them back in the bowl from a foot high. Sure I want them to have fun but don't damage my rocks. I have one more bowl of my (current) favorite rocks at the house, Wooferhound. It looks just like the others. It's clear, I like those wood bowls. I've probably bought 10 of them, maybe more. I give them as gifts, full of hand selected tumbles in most cases. A couple have been sent to folks on here. The rest of my inventory is kept in 4 Tupperware containers, until I want to give another gift. The other bowl.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 10:21:25 GMT -5
You are a prolific photographer. That's an interesting and diverse Flickr archive you've got over there. Fun to look at. I had already seen that pic on Flickr, before you got it up here. That's where you go for the breaking news.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 30, 2018 8:59:21 GMT -5
Yes. He is up and coming. His sculptures easily rival the finest. More than. Did sample melts on his stuff last night. anxious to open kiln this morn. So, how'd it go? No pics on Flickr yet.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 22:13:29 GMT -5
Thanks for all of the suggestions. I think I'm going to go with the tile saw method. I had already been considering getting one to help with breaking down large rough to fit in my tumbler barrels, so this way I can kill 2 birds with one stone. I think that's a wise choice and a good way to bump up your capabilities.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 22:07:00 GMT -5
It appears, you can't stumble outside in the dark without tripping over a beautiful rock. Officially jealous. Nice cab!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 22:04:19 GMT -5
Hard to beat those Texas rocks!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 21:57:36 GMT -5
Those before and after pics are priceless. Something few if any do. Shows perfect transformation. Grats I'm always surprised when I go looking and find the 'before' picture from months prior. Then again, I have photographed just about all rough as it comes in and most tumble ready material that I expect to turn out nice. ETA - Here's another good before/after.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 21:45:31 GMT -5
Wow. Sounds like a great presentation. Those kids probably don't realize they just seen the best of the best in those tumbles. Chuck Thanks, Chuck, appreciate that from 'The Champ'. Their teacher asked "who saw rocks in a different way, after the presentation" and they all raised their hands. That made it worth my efforts.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 21:33:33 GMT -5
I can't tell if you have huge hands or the Laker is small. 😎 Well, jokester, that is a really nice sized Laker, especially since you're only looking at half of it. So, my hands must be Huge.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 21:18:09 GMT -5
I know plenty of adults who would have enjoyed your presentation too. I sure would have. It looks like you did a great job. Were there lots of questions? I did have a lot of questions. One girl picked the Petoskey stone magnet and asked how that was formed, where it came from, etc. Another wanted to know how many bowls of rocks I had. They all wanted to know the origin of their magnet stones. I saw several of them running their hands through the tumbled stones. Don't blame them, smooth, cool stones feel good on the skin.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 17:50:30 GMT -5
I wondered about that shape also, jamesp. Lots to see in those macro pics.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Mar 29, 2018 16:27:47 GMT -5
Today was the day I got to go in to my son's 6th grade science class and give a presentation on my hobby. I took in the little Lortone 33B and showed them what prepped tumble rough looks like, how to get a barrel loaded and rolling and told them all about tumbling. I also put together a slide show that went over the types of material we work with, including agate, jasper, fossils and obsidian. I didn't go into too much detail on how these materials are formed, but touched on it. They hung with me through the slide show, but really came alive when they got to go hands on with the things I brought. Here's most of what I took with me and talked about.
A couple bowls of tumbles
Fossils, pet wood, limb cast
Kentucky material
Obsidian and glass
Some of the types of rocks I work with
Because West Texas goodies are fun to look at
The star of the show, because it perfectly shows how the rough exterior can hide a beautiful interior. They oooh'd and ahhhh'd over this one. Thanks, toiv0 .
They also got to choose a magnet from a large selection
While they were taking turns looking over the materials and I was answering questions, there was a slideshow running with 'before and after' tumble pics for the others. Everybody always likes to see the transformation. Here are a few that were shown.
All in all, my first presentation went off without any major malfunctions. They all seemed to enjoy it, the teacher was happy to have someone else take an hour out of her work day and I got a workout toting all this stuff around. Maybe it will even spark an interest in one or two of them, who knows? (checking to see if the teacher will forward me any of the photos she took during the class)
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