wargrafix
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Post by wargrafix on Mar 5, 2024 14:28:32 GMT -5
A friend has been looking at a few of my agates, and asked if there are tabletop/countertop slabs done with agates. Are slabs even found that big?
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khara
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Post by khara on Mar 5, 2024 15:30:01 GMT -5
There are the retro homemade table tops made from many slabs of agate, rock, thunder egg, that are then encased in epoxy. I am blessed to have two of these made by old timers decades ago.🤓🤓 Marble can be big enough for large table sized slabs.
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Post by realrockhound on Mar 5, 2024 15:33:59 GMT -5
I’ve seen them. Going to make one. The tastee treat in prineville has the best one I’ve ever see as far as rare materials go. My grandpa helped make it
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Post by hypodactylus on Mar 5, 2024 16:43:38 GMT -5
I’ve seen them. Going to make one. The tastee treat in prineville has the best one I’ve ever see as far as rare materials go. My grandpa helped make it
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Post by realrockhound on Mar 5, 2024 17:02:08 GMT -5
I’ve seen them. Going to make one. The tastee treat in prineville has the best one I’ve ever see as far as rare materials go. My grandpa helped make it
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No joke, I have slabs that match those that are found in the countertop. If you over laid them, they are an exact match
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Post by realrockhound on Mar 5, 2024 17:30:26 GMT -5
Lots of vistaite, batcave, local woods, plumes etc.. in there. Even some of the more rarer types of batcaves in there with the greens and the blues.
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Post by wargrafix on Mar 5, 2024 18:32:39 GMT -5
Fascinating. I meant like a single slab, not a combo
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Post by MsAli on Mar 5, 2024 18:36:58 GMT -5
I remember being a young girl and my uncle Tuzzy and Aunt Lena had a coffee table that was agate slices they had collected on their travels. It was filled with the most beautiful slabs. I was in love with that table. When my Aunt Lena passed away after my Uncle Tuzzy, their kids came in and cleaned house. Anything they felt couldn't make them money got trashed. Including that table.
If I were to build a table top, I'd do it exactly like that coffee table
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wargrafix
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Post by wargrafix on Mar 5, 2024 19:10:53 GMT -5
I remember being a young girl and my uncle Tuzzy and Aunt Lena had a coffee table that was agate slices they had collected on their travels. It was filled with the most beautiful slabs. I was in love with that table. When my Aunt Lena passed away after my Uncle Tuzzy, their kids came in and cleaned house. Anything they felt couldn't make them money got trashed. Including that table. If I were to build a table top, I'd do it exactly like that coffee table I am pretty sure it would have fetched a pretty penny
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Post by MsAli on Mar 5, 2024 19:15:38 GMT -5
I'm sure they could of sold just the slabs, but it was just rocks. And I could of cared less about the value. To me it would of been nice to have for the memories.
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Post by wargrafix on Mar 5, 2024 19:22:10 GMT -5
I'm sure they could of sold just the slabs, but it was just rocks. And I could of cared less about the value. To me it would of been nice to have for the memories. I agree with you for.sure!
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Post by HankRocks on Mar 5, 2024 19:24:45 GMT -5
If I can find the small agate table top I have somewhere in the garage I will get a picture posted( I am at mercy of the warehouse and the photography departments). Traded for it with Paul Wofford who owned a Rock Shop in Marfa Texas. He had taken us down to Lajitas for the first time back in 77 or 78 and I had found a 25-30 pound piece of petrified wood he wanted so he gave me the table top for it. Unfortunately the epoxy he used has yellowed over the years. It has a good bit of West Texas material in it so I was considering submitting it to an Acetone bath to rescue the agate slabs. victor1941 Do you remember Paul Wofford?
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Post by realrockhound on Mar 5, 2024 19:45:04 GMT -5
I remember being a young girl and my uncle Tuzzy and Aunt Lena had a coffee table that was agate slices they had collected on their travels. It was filled with the most beautiful slabs. I was in love with that table. When my Aunt Lena passed away after my Uncle Tuzzy, their kids came in and cleaned house. Anything they felt couldn't make them money got trashed. Including that table. If I were to build a table top, I'd do it exactly like that coffee table I cringe hearing that. Went through similar when my grandpa, then finally grandma passed. Family trying to take stuff they didn’t care about just to sell etc. fortunate my dad stopped a lot of it.
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Post by parfive on Mar 5, 2024 19:48:34 GMT -5
Fascinating. I meant like a single slab, not a combo Biggest aggie slab I’ve seen was in a shop in Quebec. Nice Brazilian about three feet in diameter, displayed vertically. I’ve got one that would make a nice end table – 16 x 20 x ½”, about ten pounds. : )
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Post by victor1941 on Mar 5, 2024 22:56:27 GMT -5
HankRocks, I remember Paul quite well. He led us on several trips in the Marfa area but not the southern sections. He moved from Marfa to the Texas Panhandle and then back to a city near Austin. He sold small flats of Bouquet and Bishop Black to members of the Austin Gem and Mineral Society. The gentleman that taught me how to cab had some material from Paul that he sold to me when age caused his retirement. I really have fond memories of Paul.
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 6, 2024 0:00:06 GMT -5
I have a 160 pound slab of tigereye that I plan to make into a table. It's a bit over 2' to a side and I'll have to use hand held wet grinder to flatten the top and smooth the sides. I'll use a juniper stump for the base. Just need the time to do it.
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Post by chris1956 on Mar 6, 2024 9:49:11 GMT -5
I have a 160 pound slab of tigereye that I plan to make into a table. It's a bit over 2' to a side and I'll have to use hand held wet grinder to flatten the top and smooth the sides. I'll use a juniper stump for the base. Just need the time to do it. There must be a story behind how you got that. ??
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 6, 2024 9:53:33 GMT -5
I have a 160 pound slab of tigereye that I plan to make into a table. It's a bit over 2' to a side and I'll have to use hand held wet grinder to flatten the top and smooth the sides. I'll use a juniper stump for the base. Just need the time to do it. There must be a story behind how you got that. ?? Yep, I told markymark I was hunting for a big slab of something cool and he had the connections to make it happen. I've bought a fair amount of really good rocks from him.
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Post by parfive on Mar 6, 2024 15:38:21 GMT -5
RWA3006 I’d be curious to see what that looks like, Randy, if you cut all the way through the mud layer* to the chatoyant stuff because you don’t usually see tiger eye cut that way, showing all end grain. * likely a combination of ferrous rock and clay
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 6, 2024 16:49:28 GMT -5
RWA3006 I’d be curious to see what that looks like, Randy, if you cut all the way through the mud layer* to the chatoyant stuff because you don’t usually see tiger eye cut that way, showing all end grain. * likely a combination of ferrous rock and clay I'm pretty sure I'll do exactly that. I'll just smooth and polish the edges in a free form style and grind down the flat top till I get to the "good stuff.". I'm not sure what to expect but I think it will be nice.
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