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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 24, 2018 8:50:41 GMT -5
I do admit jamesp, I go up around 2 am to take a short break from sleeping. I'm generally pretty much an insomniac, so it really surprised me that I slept so long! I'm not sure I have cabbed glass other than obsidian. A new challenge.
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 24, 2018 9:21:22 GMT -5
You, Sir, are a star 🌟 among stars. Well done! Would love to see pics of your bride's collection. I have tried many times but have never been able to get a good picture because of where it hangs. Hope this works...........................MrP View AttachmentHoly crap, that is an amazing amount of bling!!!! And I love that it is a front and center display piece and not squirreled away in a closet or bathroom! I've been looking on pintrest for ideas to store/display the pieces I make for myself. My little earring tree is getting too full. That fire screen is a great idea!!!
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 24, 2018 9:23:18 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I should have liked that post, captbob , but I did want to acknowledge it. captbob . I second that. I started to hit like, but then thought better of it. It's no fun when people grow apart. I wish we could have the facebook style likes. I would have given that post a sad face.
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Post by MrP on Jan 24, 2018 10:52:54 GMT -5
Thanks everybody for the nice comments. It has been a wonderful learning curve over the years. My jewelry making has mainly came about because of this board. I have watched many members make everything from tumbled cabs to fantastic wraps, and lets not forget arrow heads, swords, walking canes, jewel trees and many other things, so I had to give some things a try. I love making the pendant and earring sets and love the fact that my wife and daughters enjoy wearing them. Also my Mom and Mother-in-law have many sets. I have sold many sets also but all of the money has been donated to charity's.
The fireplace screen has worked great but as you can see it is full and she has more sets that need to be displayed. I was very happy when she wanted to display the jewelry as art. It is a nice conversion piece when any body comes over..................................MrP
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Post by 1dave on Jan 24, 2018 10:54:54 GMT -5
Wife thought I was a geologist when we met, so can't complain. She never wears any jewelry except that wedding band.
She does allow a few spectacular rocks in the house and never complains about my excesses which have slowed way down in my dotage. We are good together, nothing else matters.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2018 11:02:12 GMT -5
I do admit jamesp, I go up around 2 am to take a short break from sleeping. I'm generally pretty much an insomniac, so it really surprised me that I slept so long! I'm not sure I have cabbed glass other than obsidian. A new challenge. They say older people simply don't need as much sleep. Probably because we don't do as much. And certainly have life figured out . Glass = obsidian, at least in a tumbler. Certain that you will have no problem. Matter of fact this particular glass is a lot harder than obsidian and polishes easier. On average man made glass has hardener additives that nature's glass did not get. Slight curve on the backside, should not be a problem to grind flat. Hand blown art glass chunk semi tumbled. From inside, 1mm yellow 1mm white 1mm yellow 2mm clear 1mm mixed primary colors 3mm clear outside layer. total thickness 9mm. Figured you would loose 2 to 4mm of the outside clear layer for a 6 to 7mm thick cab. 2"+ X 1.5"- in size. Top of line hand layer art glass. Heavy frost finish and wet. What'd you think ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 11:04:35 GMT -5
Wife thought I was a geologist when we met, so can't complain. She never wears any jewelry except that wedding band. She does allow a few spectacular rocks in the house and never complains about my excesses which have slowed way down in my dotage. We are good terrific together, nothing else matters. Fixed it for you. 😎 Having met you two together, I couldn't resist.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2018 11:09:34 GMT -5
Not even a little one ?
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 24, 2018 11:14:33 GMT -5
I do admit jamesp , I go up around 2 am to take a short break from sleeping. I'm generally pretty much an insomniac, so it really surprised me that I slept so long! I'm not sure I have cabbed glass other than obsidian. A new challenge. They say older people simply don't need as much sleep. Probably because we don't do as much. And certainly have life figured out . Glass = obsidian, at least in a tumbler. Certain that you will have no problem. Matter of fact this particular glass is a lot harder than obsidian and polishes easier. On average man made glass has hardener additives that nature's glass did not get. Slight curve on the backside, should not be a problem to grind flat. Hand blown art glass chunk semi tumbled. From inside, 1mm yellow 1mm white 1mm yellow 2mm clear 1mm mixed primary colors 3mm clear outside layer. total thickness 9mm. Figured you would loose 2 to 4mm of the outside clear layer for a 6 to 7mm thick cab. 2"+ X 1.5"- in size. Top of line hand layer art glass. Heavy frost finish and wet. What'd you think ? My 98 y/o uncle in law rarely sleeps despite walking several miles a day. I find that I do sleep less the older I get. It's frustrating to want to sleep and can't, though. That glass is beautiful! I was following your rooster thread. It was pretty to start with - you just made it prettier. I reckon I can get a nice cab from that, fer sure. I'd be honored.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 24, 2018 11:33:48 GMT -5
cool beans Tela
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 24, 2018 13:51:37 GMT -5
Not even a little one ?
Do they make hoagies without bread? No? Bummer, dude!
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 24, 2018 13:54:55 GMT -5
I like to take a piece of sandwich ham and roll it up with a little cream cheese. It's my sub without bread. Yum.
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Post by wannabee on Jan 24, 2018 17:01:10 GMT -5
I think my wife just chalks the hobby up to one more weird thing her husband does.
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Post by taylor on Jan 24, 2018 23:29:49 GMT -5
I do admit jamesp , I go up around 2 am to take a short break from sleeping. I'm generally pretty much an insomniac, so it really surprised me that I slept so long! I'm not sure I have cabbed glass other than obsidian. A new challenge. Glass is fun! But, do wear eye protection...it chips more frequently than obsidian.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 10:42:55 GMT -5
I do admit jamesp , I go up around 2 am to take a short break from sleeping. I'm generally pretty much an insomniac, so it really surprised me that I slept so long! I'm not sure I have cabbed glass other than obsidian. A new challenge. Glass is fun! But, do wear eye protection...it chips more frequently than obsidian. Doesn't matter when it's in a tumbler does it?
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Post by taylor on Jan 26, 2018 20:48:25 GMT -5
Glass is fun! But, do wear eye protection...it chips more frequently than obsidian. Doesn't matter when it's in a tumbler does it? Not much to one's eye safety @shotgunner ! An example of cabbed glass:
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Post by barclay on Jan 26, 2018 23:40:40 GMT -5
Funny story about that, my fiance (now wife) got me interested in rocks, but she has no interest in them. I proposed before going on my first WestPac deployment. My fiance was an Air Force brat and she said the Air Force has a tradition that when you deploy you try and knock out a year's worth of Christmas and birthday shopping for everyone because you are going to all these great places you may never see again. I thought it was a great idea and told here everywhere we though we were going to visit. She said her birth stone is opal and i was going to Australia and that is where the best opals come from so could i get her one. I said sure. The problem is that i grew up in New Mexico and there is only one gemstone around there, turquoise. I know nothing about opal so I go to the library and check out a couple of books so i have at least a bit of a clue. On the liberty boat into Perth, West Australia i happen to be sitting next to a Chief Petty Officer Dental Technician and we start talking about our plans for the beach. He is looking for opal also. He tells me that he does lapidary. I ask what that is and he tells me he changes out the bits on the drill he used on teeth and he cuts and polishes stone with it. He offers to help me get some good opals and I am relieved to find someone who knows about them. When we get to the boat landing there is this drunk guy holding a 1-gallon glass jar sitting under a street light. The Chief does a double take, goes back and talks to the guy for 30 seconds, gives him every dollar in his pocket and heads back to the boat. I ask where he is going and he says back to the boat. I tell him i thought we were going to look at opals together and that if he goes back now he will miss a day of liberty in Perth because we got the last boat to shore, he says he will see me later. Any way I found some decent opals and the wife was very happy with them. I catch up with the Chief about a week later and ask him what happened to him. He says that the drunk was an opal miner from the Outback. He digs in his opal mine until he runs out of food, takes his opal into town, gets hammered out of his mind, sells his opal, buys food for the next month and returns to his mine. The Chief pulls out a polished opal about the size and shape of the last two digits of my pinkie. He says that is the first stone he worked from that gallon of opal and it is worth about $800 and that he bought the gallon of opal for $350. Looks like you can make some money doing this lapidary thing so i study up on faceted stones and make some good purchases on subsequent deployments so the wife is happy with what i got. Most of it is still unset, including the opals from Australia. She tolerates the hobby. The female relatives love getting hand crafted jewelry. I sell some pendants and pocket knives with stone handles to folks I know. My wife jokes that when she can't find me i am either in the garage working on rocks or at the club shop working on rocks or on a field trip getting more rocks. She says it beats me hanging out in bars
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Post by captbob on Jan 27, 2018 0:26:50 GMT -5
^^ GOOD story. That Chief was in the right place at the right time!
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Post by Rockoonz on Jan 27, 2018 23:13:57 GMT -5
My story: I used to restore old cars as a hobby and sold parts online to support it. I bought a gutted out trailer to convert into a car hauler, stripping the AC wire out and putting it in a pile for scrapping. Elizabeth started cold hammering copper making cool jewelry bits. I went all man-splainy and told her about annealing, she informed me she had learned all that stuff in college in jewelers classes. I said oh I didn't know you did that, I did it back in High School where they had jewelry and lapidary classes. Well, next thing for her it was beading, first we got seed beads on ebay with some of the car money, then I told her it was so creative she should be using natural stone beads. Next thing you know we're searching ebay for focal beads for her pieces into the wee hours, and I come up with the bright idea we need to make our own beads. Craigslist found me some tools, we joined the local rock club so we could learn how to use them,
and it all went downhill from there.
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Post by deedolce on Jan 29, 2018 3:11:07 GMT -5
What neat stories! My Better Half is super supportive of my lapidary and wrapping. He built me work tables in a shed in the backyard for my workshop and fixes my saws when they don't work right. He's not thrilled at the moment when he looks at my rock collection, knowing we'll be moving it in about 18 months, but at least I'm not buying anymore for now. Well, not that much more. Ahem.
He likes and appreciates my wraps, likes that they sell, and is encouraging me to go into it 'full time' after I retire, instead of how it is now, when I do it when I'm not too tired from my day job. He doesn't like the noise my tumbler makes, so I'm waiting until we have a garage too really learn how to tumble the right way, and get that mirror like shine I see in the pics here. He isn't the kind that will rockhound with me, but he likes the idea of driving ATV's on back roads with compartments to hold rocks. Heck, he even went along when I went to the Tonopah Turquoise mine, and hung out at the brewery and in downtown Tonopah for the day, while I got to search the trailings to my hearts content one day! There's not much in downtown Tonopah, lol.
We've been together 10 years now. He's the cat's meow, so I'm going to marry him come May. He's mostly only grumpy before he's had his coffee in the morning.
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