Post by Roger on Jan 8, 2018 22:15:16 GMT -5
Hi everyone I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season! I haven't had much free time to take and post photos of the cabs I had been working on in December so I am going to photobomb again lol
PETRIFIED WOOD
Petrified Palmwood - Cab 1
Petrified Palmwood - Cab 2
Shrinkwood - this is a nice piece with a fortification.
Petrified Sycamore - playing with shapes lol
OPAL
These are some various types of common opal and two unremarkable boulder opals.
Bi-colored Fire Opal from Opal Butte - Cab 1
Bi-colored Fire Opal from Opal Butte - Cab 2
Koroit Boulder Opal - Cab 1
Koroit Boulder Opal - Cab 2
Peruvian Blue Opal - Love the color this has.
Opalised Petrified Wood from Indonesia - the white line showing in the black area is white opal under the black, starting to show through.
MISC.
Blue Tiger Eye
Lapis Lace from Turkey - This was an end-cut. I cabbed it with the grain for the soid blue color.
Lapis Lazuli - Cab 1
Lapis Lazuli - Cab 2
Rhodochrosite - Cab 1
Rhodochrosite - Cab 2
Chrysocolla
Fischer Stone - This is an old cab that I reworked. I had hoped to get the pattern clearer but it wasn't in the cards =\
I think this is Mohawkite but I am not positive..
Quartz in Agate - This is a large 3" cab. I got a little off on following the shape of the quartz..
Turqouise - I think this is from a mine in China
Strawberry Quartz - I got very lucky and found some old stock Strawberry Quartz. It is hard to find.
Cab 1
Cab 2
AGATES
Agua Nueva Agate
Dendritic Agate - this one is shallow domed on both sides
Fire Agate - Cab 1 - Not much fire lol
Fire Agate - Cab 2
Very nice Blue Lace Agate with a quartz band. I have cut a lot of lue lace agates but have never seen one with the colored quartz.
Brazilian Agate - love the black and white color contrast
Condor Agate
Cobra Agate
Youngite
Two Moss Agate cabs from the same slab. The first cab is 4" long and the second is just a hair under 3".
Cab 1
Cab 2
Pseudo Morph Agate - Turkish material
Stick Agate - Turkish material
I pulled the rough for this from one of my bins of Montana Agate but I haven't seen one like this before. I am not sure if it really is a Montana..
Luna Agate - really nice colors and well defined orbs
These next cabs are all Laguna Agates
Cab 1
Cab 2
Cab 3 - this is another large cab. It is a little under 3 1/2".
JASPER
Bumblebee Jasper
Cab 1
Birdseye Bumblebee Jasper
Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper
No post would be complete without including some Ocean Jasper for rockjunquie
These are all from different pieces of rough.
Ocean Jasper "eye"
Ocean Jasper Cab 2 - this has a nicely healed fracture
Ocean Jasper Cab 3
Ocean Jasper Cab 4
Ocean Jasper - Cab 5
Ocean Jasper - Cab 6 - This was my Christmas cab for 2017. It is another long one at a little over 4"
Hope everyone has an awesome 2018!
Roger
PETRIFIED WOOD
Petrified Palmwood - Cab 1
Petrified Palmwood - Cab 2
Shrinkwood - this is a nice piece with a fortification.
Petrified Sycamore - playing with shapes lol
OPAL
These are some various types of common opal and two unremarkable boulder opals.
Bi-colored Fire Opal from Opal Butte - Cab 1
Bi-colored Fire Opal from Opal Butte - Cab 2
Koroit Boulder Opal - Cab 1
Koroit Boulder Opal - Cab 2
Peruvian Blue Opal - Love the color this has.
Opalised Petrified Wood from Indonesia - the white line showing in the black area is white opal under the black, starting to show through.
MISC.
Blue Tiger Eye
Lapis Lace from Turkey - This was an end-cut. I cabbed it with the grain for the soid blue color.
Lapis Lazuli - Cab 1
Lapis Lazuli - Cab 2
Rhodochrosite - Cab 1
Rhodochrosite - Cab 2
Chrysocolla
Fischer Stone - This is an old cab that I reworked. I had hoped to get the pattern clearer but it wasn't in the cards =\
I think this is Mohawkite but I am not positive..
Quartz in Agate - This is a large 3" cab. I got a little off on following the shape of the quartz..
Turqouise - I think this is from a mine in China
Strawberry Quartz - I got very lucky and found some old stock Strawberry Quartz. It is hard to find.
Cab 1
Cab 2
AGATES
Agua Nueva Agate
Dendritic Agate - this one is shallow domed on both sides
Fire Agate - Cab 1 - Not much fire lol
Fire Agate - Cab 2
Very nice Blue Lace Agate with a quartz band. I have cut a lot of lue lace agates but have never seen one with the colored quartz.
Brazilian Agate - love the black and white color contrast
Condor Agate
Cobra Agate
Youngite
Two Moss Agate cabs from the same slab. The first cab is 4" long and the second is just a hair under 3".
Cab 1
Cab 2
Pseudo Morph Agate - Turkish material
Stick Agate - Turkish material
I pulled the rough for this from one of my bins of Montana Agate but I haven't seen one like this before. I am not sure if it really is a Montana..
Luna Agate - really nice colors and well defined orbs
These next cabs are all Laguna Agates
Cab 1
Cab 2
Cab 3 - this is another large cab. It is a little under 3 1/2".
JASPER
Bumblebee Jasper
Cab 1
Birdseye Bumblebee Jasper
Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper
No post would be complete without including some Ocean Jasper for rockjunquie
These are all from different pieces of rough.
Ocean Jasper "eye"
Ocean Jasper Cab 2 - this has a nicely healed fracture
Ocean Jasper Cab 3
Ocean Jasper Cab 4
Ocean Jasper - Cab 5
Ocean Jasper - Cab 6 - This was my Christmas cab for 2017. It is another long one at a little over 4"
Hope everyone has an awesome 2018!
Roger