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Post by orrum on Mar 14, 2013 18:23:52 GMT -5
This has gotta work I am logged onto a friends wifi so I should not time out. Had trouble with the straight edge not being shiny and the begginning of the dome not being shiny! This is not as easy as turqioise cabs. I love them tho, only truly hard hidollar turquoise gets this shiny. These are from Donie, Diane, n Tela. One from each. Thank yall n I woll get better, not supposed to be outside the house yet. They r very shiny but my camera isnt very good on my tablet, only two mp. Thanks for looking! Attachments:
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Post by Noosh9057 on Mar 14, 2013 18:45:21 GMT -5
The first one on left looks great.
Roger
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Mar 14, 2013 19:37:28 GMT -5
Hey, they are lookin good!
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Post by orrum on Mar 14, 2013 20:10:42 GMT -5
Thanks Roger but the sides have scratches n pits, I shoulda worked longer on the sides. I am gonna redo tge teardrop one and wrap it for my lady friend!
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Post by roy on Mar 14, 2013 20:26:57 GMT -5
nice work your lady friend will like it
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Post by deb193redux on Mar 14, 2013 21:02:47 GMT -5
Good start. Seeing the flaws like you describe is going to serve you well. Otherwise you would have no room to improve.
The photo is a bit blurry. Usually phone/tablet cameras have pretty good focal length so this may be motion. Any way to stabilize. Maybe prop them vertical and rest tablet on a surface.
I know baby steps an all that, but resizing would be good to. The pic is huge and the attachment is almost 1M. When you use attachments the periodically get deleted to make room in the limited forum storage space. The bigger ones may go sooner.
So what stone are you going to work next?
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Post by Tom on Mar 14, 2013 22:11:51 GMT -5
Nice job they look good! To add to what redux suggests you can crop the image so onlybthe cabs are in the image and not a lot of background. Really helps reduce image size.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 14, 2013 22:21:54 GMT -5
Yay! You finally made it They look really nice. Love the colors. There's so many programs out there to do simple image editing. One of the oldest and still free is irfanview. www.irfanview.com I have been using that and an old Photoshop forever. Irfanview is really simple and very powerful, with an intuitive user interface. It's not fancy, but it'll get her done (and cropped and resized.).
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 15, 2013 5:35:05 GMT -5
The harder materials take more time but there's actually less room for error. On the softer stones one slip up and you can grind away too much. Have you tried the black marker trick in between grits to make sure you are completely grinding the whole surface at every stage? I only do that on real hard stuff like brazilian agates and montanas but it really helps me avoid fixing scratches after polishing.
keep cabbing and keep posting.
chuck
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Post by orrum on Mar 15, 2013 5:52:53 GMT -5
Thanks everybody! My problem with photo resizing is the signal for my Verizon tablet is so weak at the house that I cant upload pics etc. also I can only afford 2GB per month on a combo of cell and tablet so pics and music use a lot up fast. I go to Mcdonalds or use a friends wifi when at her house. Chuck I used the marker trick but did not do the edges, next time I intend to do the straight edge solid and the dome with pie shape slices. Daniel I have dopped a bunch of Montanas that are 3 piece earring pendant sets but am scared cause they resemble my rose quartz in that they r very clear and I never got the rose shiny in the middle. Plus it chips bad on the edge with the hard SC wheels. I think montana with the orange and black is awesome looking! I think I need to grind more edge off the dome with the 200 SC hard wheel to make a higer dome too. Go to doctor Monday, maybe I get released, been a long 8 weeks in the house!
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Post by kk on Mar 15, 2013 9:15:30 GMT -5
Looks great for firsts. Don't worry about the higher dome yet. That will come, when you get more comfortable with the harder material. By then you will be willing to press harder down without worrying that you remove half the stone. Cant really understand how you managed to get only part of the material shined up. The material seems evenly distributed, so that should not happen. I usually get the edges to shine up first even without trying to do so. You work with topsticks, right? Might it be that you dont tilt the cab enough to reach the edge?
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Post by orrum on Mar 15, 2013 10:08:58 GMT -5
KK I learned on Turqioise n dont push har or roll the dome much because the turquoise would be GONE!!!! So I need to push harder n roll more to the edge.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 15, 2013 11:02:19 GMT -5
Orrum, this might sound dumb- maybe I'm missing something, but resizing takes place before you go online. I think a lot of your connection problems would be solved if you weren't trying to upload such huge files. One of the reasons to resize BEFORE you upload is so you won't bog down your connection on a huge file. Try to get the image smaller offline and then upload it.
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Post by Tom on Mar 15, 2013 23:32:09 GMT -5
Rock junkie. Irfanview is the best simple image edit program I have used. Been using it forever, I remember when it would fit on a 3.5 floppy disk, it might still. A very well written program IMO:)
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Post by Tony W on Mar 17, 2013 0:49:46 GMT -5
Nice! As we talked about, you want to narrow the jump between grits, and it will especially show up on agates. They are great to practice on though as they will shine like the sun when you get the grinding figured out And invest in a cheap tripod, and make sure you have the macro settings on your camera set. Glad you are sneaking out to the shed..just don't get caught, lol. Tony
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