ziggy
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Post by ziggy on Jun 9, 2017 7:12:24 GMT -5
Here's four completed pendants made from some of the Petoskey stones we found on our last trip up that way. We love working with this stuff. There's tons of this stuff on the beaches in the Leelanau and Petoskey areas. It takes a trained eye to find it though. The good rocks for slabbing don't always show the pattern before being cut. On the beach they look like all the other grey pebbles.
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Post by fernwood on Jun 9, 2017 9:35:22 GMT -5
Beautiful
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Jun 9, 2017 13:03:36 GMT -5
Those are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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grizman
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Post by grizman on Jun 9, 2017 14:30:49 GMT -5
Very nice! I really like the delicate patterns of the Petosky.
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Post by pghram on Jun 9, 2017 20:01:26 GMT -5
Great work, those are fantastic.
Peace, Rich
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ziggy
spending too much on rocks
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Post by ziggy on Jun 9, 2017 20:20:18 GMT -5
Very nice! I really like the delicate patterns of the Petosky. They remind me of an old model T. You can get them in any color as long as it is brownish grey.
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Post by toiv0 on Jun 10, 2017 3:04:37 GMT -5
Pretty sweet ziggy, your husbands machine seems to be preforming great. How is he liking it? Any tweaking?
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ziggy
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Post by ziggy on Jun 10, 2017 8:59:03 GMT -5
Pretty sweet ziggy , your husbands machine seems to be preforming great. How is he liking it? Any tweaking? No tweaks needed. It works as planned. Cuts a nice even depth groove in probably like two minutes.
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Post by Psycho on Jun 13, 2017 11:44:31 GMT -5
Very nice when I get up that way to hunt I like working the water near shore , so much easier to see the patterns and pic them up , plus I find some quality unakite there as well.
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ziggy
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Post by ziggy on Jun 13, 2017 15:11:56 GMT -5
Three places really stand out for collecting beach Petoskey. One is Peterson beach, but the 120 or so stairs going to the beach is a bit much for senior citizens like me and hubby to handle except on maybe a really pain free day. Then there's Fisherman's Island. Really picked over most of the time. Then there's Government Pier in downtown Petoskey. Lots of Petoskey stones there are more easily found in the high and dry grey rock because most people only search the waters edge and never even look in the dry stuff, in the process leaving the shorline pretty much devoid of any specimens because of heavy use at this site. Last time we were up there was early spring. The bay was iced in still and there was ice creeping over the waters edge and onto the shore making looking for wet ones impossible. We just searched the dry rocks on the beach and found a mess of nice stuff.
Yep on the unakite. Unfortunately, we are all unikited out with more than we'll ever cut and polish just sitting in our rock stock.
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