Post by puppie96 on Nov 13, 2004 5:48:35 GMT -5
Our local circuit includes about 4 a year. The fall one is going on. Yea!
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I always carry rocks with me and annoy vendors wanting to get ID's or generally pick their brains. The hobbyists were there doing the "pebble puppy" area where all the kids get to fill an egg carton with already identified specimens. I always want to do this, but they will not let me even though my name meets the criteria. Obviously I need to join the club. One guy I've talked to before has all this cabbing equipment, you can do a cab and learn how. I always want to do this but it is always mobbed with rugrats. This man was really trying to entice me this time. I keep resisting. I am afraid of what might happen if I take this another step.
The "is this anything" rocks were deemed to, indeed, be "anything." Specifically, they are agates, of the Missouri variety. I had a piece with me that has been through several grinds and has really delicate but very pronounced and beautiful banding, and I have been afraid of grinding it off. They were assuring me that it goes through and wouldn't grind off. They were very complimentary of my tumbled rocks. Then in the educational display they had tons and tons of agates -- cabs and slabs -- all labeled -- and a whole bottom row in each case of MO agates -- these seem to be either "MO lace" or "union road" or "jacks" (I assume named after one of the local rivers). Looking at the variety of Union Roads, I'm clueless about what discriminates them from others. The MO lace looks much like what I've picked up the last 2 weekends, though it ranges into the spectacular, far more than my pickups.
I thought of you guys looking at the variety of pendants etc. Also, there was a ton of obsidian and I've now decided that I didn't just have "pits," I do in fact have quite a bit of snowflake obsidian that I picked up. They also had carved rainbow obsidian. Somehow they had taken rocks and carved out a form in relief -- like a heart, or a star -- and the rainbow colors showed up on the form but not on the background stone. These things were simply amazing and it was impossible to figure out how on earth they did this. I am bummed because none of the vendors have any books -- I missed some chances at the last shows -- and nobody has much in the way of tumbling supplies. I'll probably go back tomorrow. I'm seeing a lot of my rocks, picked up in the west and locally, and figuring out what some of them are, and that is a good thing.
pup
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I always carry rocks with me and annoy vendors wanting to get ID's or generally pick their brains. The hobbyists were there doing the "pebble puppy" area where all the kids get to fill an egg carton with already identified specimens. I always want to do this, but they will not let me even though my name meets the criteria. Obviously I need to join the club. One guy I've talked to before has all this cabbing equipment, you can do a cab and learn how. I always want to do this but it is always mobbed with rugrats. This man was really trying to entice me this time. I keep resisting. I am afraid of what might happen if I take this another step.
The "is this anything" rocks were deemed to, indeed, be "anything." Specifically, they are agates, of the Missouri variety. I had a piece with me that has been through several grinds and has really delicate but very pronounced and beautiful banding, and I have been afraid of grinding it off. They were assuring me that it goes through and wouldn't grind off. They were very complimentary of my tumbled rocks. Then in the educational display they had tons and tons of agates -- cabs and slabs -- all labeled -- and a whole bottom row in each case of MO agates -- these seem to be either "MO lace" or "union road" or "jacks" (I assume named after one of the local rivers). Looking at the variety of Union Roads, I'm clueless about what discriminates them from others. The MO lace looks much like what I've picked up the last 2 weekends, though it ranges into the spectacular, far more than my pickups.
I thought of you guys looking at the variety of pendants etc. Also, there was a ton of obsidian and I've now decided that I didn't just have "pits," I do in fact have quite a bit of snowflake obsidian that I picked up. They also had carved rainbow obsidian. Somehow they had taken rocks and carved out a form in relief -- like a heart, or a star -- and the rainbow colors showed up on the form but not on the background stone. These things were simply amazing and it was impossible to figure out how on earth they did this. I am bummed because none of the vendors have any books -- I missed some chances at the last shows -- and nobody has much in the way of tumbling supplies. I'll probably go back tomorrow. I'm seeing a lot of my rocks, picked up in the west and locally, and figuring out what some of them are, and that is a good thing.
pup