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Post by HankRocks on Jan 16, 2018 19:38:14 GMT -5
Just pulled these out of the polish cycle before the great blizzard of Jan-2017 hit us here in Houston. Collected all of these last June. The pictures are still not where they need to be. Ran them through 46/70 rotary about 8 days with one re-charge, 80AO rotary for about 8 days then 48 hours in AO polish. Used lots of pebbles to get down into the valleys. Henry www.flickr.com/photos/67823965@N02/albums/72157691560509384
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Post by MsAli on Jan 16, 2018 20:18:19 GMT -5
Love those Henry!
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 16, 2018 20:46:39 GMT -5
Great looking pieces.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Jan 16, 2018 22:14:01 GMT -5
That's some cool material. I like how they turned out.
Chuck
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 16, 2018 22:41:28 GMT -5
If I go back plan on keeping an eye out for the more distinctive pieces, more "bubbles" and "swirls". Sure wish I could get into an area with some Fire showing. Have only seen a couple of very small pieces with a hint of fire. It may be further west into Arizona as Round Mt is on the eastern edge of good fire agate country.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 19, 2018 10:38:55 GMT -5
Vicious polish on those Henry. Chalcedony polish like no tomorrow. Pure form of silica. Good job on not over tumbling the details off.
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 19, 2018 10:54:16 GMT -5
They take as good a polish as the Montana and Brazilan Agates, high gloss, my picture taking needs to improve to really show them off. Have some bigger ones I want to tumble that have a lot of character, like some sort of modern art sculptures. A couple are almost a pound with wings and edges all over so I need to take care about putting 2 or 3 of them together for fear of having them jam up. It took me a while to figure out that leaving the surface character was the way to go. I was tumbling the first ones in extended coarse runs to remove all the surface bumps, the tumbled botryoidals gave me one of those "duh!" moments.
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Post by fernwood on Jan 21, 2018 15:35:48 GMT -5
Wonderful polish. Like how the nodules remain, but have a high shine.
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Post by txrockhunter on Jan 26, 2018 17:10:35 GMT -5
Looks like you executed exactly as planned! Beautiful stuff, very hard, but they take a great polish. Now you should have extra room, for the San Jacintos you collected a couple weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing those polished up!
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 26, 2018 18:31:29 GMT -5
They are in the queue for the 2nd stage of 80AO. Hope to get them going in a couple days. They are so well rounded I will probably reduce the time in that stage a bit.
Been cutting on both saws and polishing on the Flat Lap, should have some pics soon.
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Post by melhill1659 on Jan 29, 2018 0:09:54 GMT -5
Those are cool HankRocksTotally forgot you’re in the Houston area!! My brain has turned to mush! We got into town a few hours ago. Leaving out tomorrow though. I so wished I’d have known you liked these. I could have picked you up a bunch! I’m thinking I gotta trade my Rockhounding buddy in on a new model 😂 the wash we were in went on for miles an Chris didn’t want to walk to far away from the vehicle. In her defense she was super sick pretty much the whole Q trip and she was a trooper! But I found a few with some fire an it just made me want to walk and search forever for that real FIND OF THE DAY. She found a beautiful palm size pink one too. I’ll try and remember to hit you up before we make this trip again. Maybe we can come a few days early and lick some rocks somewhere and catch dinner.
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Post by adam on Jan 29, 2018 9:03:12 GMT -5
Just pulled these out of the polish cycle before the great blizzard of Jan-2017 hit us here in Houston. Collected all of these last June. The pictures are still not where they need to be. Ran them through 46/70 rotary about 8 days with one re-charge, 80AO rotary for about 8 days then 48 hours in AO polish. Used lots of pebbles to get down into the valleys. Henry www.flickr.com/photos/67823965@N02/albums/72157691560509384What a fine shine. Eye candy.
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rodeodan
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Post by rodeodan on Jan 29, 2018 9:47:18 GMT -5
those are wonderful, especially like how you kept the texture.
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 29, 2018 20:01:28 GMT -5
Beautiful! Love the way you executed that polish!
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Post by toiv0 on Jan 29, 2018 21:42:51 GMT -5
wow, nice, looks like they could melt in your mouth.
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Post by HankRocks on Jan 29, 2018 22:48:45 GMT -5
Those are cool HankRocks Totally forgot you’re in the Houston area!! My brain has turned to mush! We got into town a few hours ago. Leaving out tomorrow though. I so wished I’d have known you liked these. I could have picked you up a bunch! I’m thinking I gotta trade my Rockhounding buddy in on a new model 😂 the wash we were in went on for miles an Chris didn’t want to walk to far away from the vehicle. In her defense she was super sick pretty much the whole Q trip and she was a trooper! But I found a few with some fire an it just made me want to walk and search forever for that real FIND OF THE DAY. She found a beautiful palm size pink one too. I’ll try and remember to hit you up before we make this trip again. Maybe we can come a few days early and lick some rocks somewhere and catch dinner. mehill - I have a pretty decent stash of that particular material having collected the past two Junes and if everything goes as planned I will be back this June to collect more. Give me a bit of notice before your next trip here and maybe we can set something up. Henry
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