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Post by accidentalrockhound on Jun 1, 2019 8:03:19 GMT -5
Well it has been a long time coming. My baby boy is having his High school graduation. Here is a picture of him and my precious grandson. I am so proud of him. He is a great dad even though he is young. My grandson is almost 2 years old, my son managed to finish high school and plans on attending our community college, Proud Dad,
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Jun 1, 2019 1:35:22 GMT -5
You know your a horrible cabber when you trade in your diamond wheels for grit.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 31, 2019 21:54:12 GMT -5
I saw my doctor and most likely arthritis. It might be tendinitis. I'll wait until Tuesday, let my thumb cool down and then fix the cab I sold with a fracture. I need to make sure I don't overdo my time on the wheels. Take the time you need get well your little cabb buddies will be waiting for you.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 31, 2019 10:02:37 GMT -5
You know your a horrible cabber if you don't know what we are talking about?
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 30, 2019 8:38:25 GMT -5
You know your a horrible cabber, if you have all the equipment for cabbing and no cabbs!
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 23:32:18 GMT -5
A nice little cutter. Does anyone know what this might be?
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 23:20:58 GMT -5
Wow! That copper complex just about knocked my socks off and then I scrolled down to see the other "shoebox" stuff.
The purple/pink stuff does not look like tiffany stone to me. I could see it being maybe Willow Creek, although I don't think I've seen that particular color. Willow Creek comes in many different colors and that could be some older stuff that I've never come across. Certainly not sure, though.
That is a big challenge for me. A lot of material I have been fortunate enough to find Is hard to identify. Here is some nice purple materials that popped up when I was going through it.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 22:14:51 GMT -5
I found a few piece's of this pinkish purple material I think is pink Tiffany stone. What do you think. This is the biggest piece of it seems to be very hard and porcelain like.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 17:08:16 GMT -5
Is that the same stuff as the slab I got? I believe so.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 15:42:44 GMT -5
Sorted out a small pile of rosebud agate jasper, this is a fun material to work with. Is there any one here interested in this material that can do tumbles 2-3 inches? If so watch for the competition .
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 24, 2019 13:21:51 GMT -5
A little slow to post.so far the sorting is slow and tedious. I have been cleaning rocks and small slabs. I had to wash every single one to see what it was . I was expecting a little more than what I have been finding, but I am happy with what I like out of it. There is a bunch of little 1 timers of colorful material. After examining the lot and taking in consideration of what I was told. I believe this is a combination of the rocks this guy collected and the rocks and slabs he obtained from therapy he did work for. Some of the bigger piece's look to be collected locally mostly common petrified wood, opalized wood, common river rocks and what I would see around the creeks and rivers, the other part of came from the other guy. He must have been heavy in to lapidary and I imagine silversmithing. I can tell buy the quality of material that was being worked and some of the cutting rough. That's where the nice moss agates and Jasper's , and the nicer material came from, I will post pictures of the material I think is worth showing. I found a nice cutter piece of this material and later came across a few slabs that where cut from it. The slabs look solid and will cut a few or more cabbs, colors are very spot on the pyrite shines brighter. This is a shoe box size tote I picked out a bunch of nice 1 timers, the big pinkish piece looks like pink Tiffany stone. It is very hard porcelain like. I wish I could have found nice cutters of any of this stuff.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 23, 2019 17:36:50 GMT -5
No words for what this guy does. He is on his own God level! There is no one else I think is capable of doing what he does. Alex Honnold if you haven't seen Solo you need to watch it. He climbed El Capitan with no ropes in record breaking time. He is truly in a class all of his own. Now he is basically a millionaire who climbs any where in the world he wants. I watched the climb at least 4 times just because it was amazing.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 21, 2019 19:54:49 GMT -5
Wow. What a great job on that awesome material.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 21, 2019 19:13:32 GMT -5
Very nice, I have to agree that Tiffany is awesome.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 21, 2019 19:04:09 GMT -5
Lots of nice material there, great job on the cabbs. I need to get on them wheels, to hard to pick a favorite.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 17, 2019 23:02:23 GMT -5
Very nice material I think I like that stoney one.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 17, 2019 22:56:04 GMT -5
Great job looking forward to the first batch.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 17, 2019 20:08:10 GMT -5
Sorry for the delay. I have been washing off the rocks and separating slabblets from rocks. I also picked up the saw today. A beastly little thing. I have picked out a bunch of junk rock . I really hope it was worth it. Rock hounding in your own yard seems like cheating. Lol. I seen that bureno nodule right away it's a little bigger than a baseball. That is the only I seen so far. And it is not cut. Just about every rock is at least windowed.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 17, 2019 19:14:46 GMT -5
Thank you everyone it was fun. People seem to like them . I am going to make some more with patina.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on May 15, 2019 12:26:25 GMT -5
IDK but I like it.
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