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Post by socalagatehound on Aug 4, 2018 16:28:59 GMT -5
garage, meet an Arizonan and they all get cab-faced... The Texans: Lajitas Agate with swirls of color Walker Ranch...part peanut agate and part peanut maker Fluffy moss, Roadside collected The Mexicans Sonora Plume agate Crazy Lace, sliced across the bubbles The colors slightly different against the black background The Arizonan Bisbee area Copper Complex...Chrysocolla, Azurite, Cuprite all in a blue agate No joke, they're all still hanging out in my garage. Thanks for looking
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fishnpinball
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Post by fishnpinball on Aug 4, 2018 16:40:09 GMT -5
Nice looking bunch
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 4, 2018 16:47:59 GMT -5
Wow! They are great, but the last one is really killer!
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Post by MsAli on Aug 4, 2018 16:53:19 GMT -5
All really nice! That crazy lace is ridiculous! And the blue in the Arizona guy is incredible
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Post by mohs on Aug 4, 2018 17:04:04 GMT -5
nice ! those 3 got deep into the moon shine
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 18:38:01 GMT -5
Buy them all a round on me great drinking buddy's
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mgrets
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Post by mgrets on Aug 4, 2018 19:53:23 GMT -5
Wow! Great stuff!
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Post by Pat on Aug 4, 2018 21:27:05 GMT -5
That red Sonoran plume Agate is stunning! Thanks for the show.
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Post by pauls on Aug 4, 2018 22:37:30 GMT -5
I love what you did with the Crazy Lace.
Thats a technique I use for nice Agates that only have a thin skin of Agate over a Quartz centre, some of them are wow, others not so much but its worth having a go you just never know what nice things might turn up as you grind it down. At least sometimes I can get a nice stone from a very thin worthless piece.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 4, 2018 23:05:26 GMT -5
Holy smokes, they all beautiful, but that crazy lace and Bisbee are stunning!
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 5, 2018 0:14:09 GMT -5
More great cabs.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Aug 5, 2018 1:59:26 GMT -5
Quite a collection of cabs! That is all beautiful material, very well done.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 5, 2018 6:35:24 GMT -5
Those have a lot of shine.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 5, 2018 9:21:33 GMT -5
I applaud its an excellent choice of cabs... Beautiful!!
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Post by drocknut on Aug 5, 2018 10:04:04 GMT -5
Wow, all of them are beautiful. You gave them a great shine for sure. I'm partial to blue but hard to pick a favorite of all of them. That crazy lace is crazy cool and the "fluffy" moss is killer, and the plume is off the chart. Ah heck, like I said, all of them are beautiful.
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Post by mossyrockhound on Aug 6, 2018 19:35:40 GMT -5
Great eye candy! I'm impressed by what your did with the crazy lace. The Mexicans were beating the Texans until the Arizonian stepped in.
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Post by stardiamond on Aug 8, 2018 15:34:53 GMT -5
Those are amazing.
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Post by beefjello on Aug 8, 2018 20:31:19 GMT -5
That second Mexican has some nice eyes.. but the colorful Bisbee fella done stole the show!!
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Post by nchillbilly on Aug 10, 2018 21:03:53 GMT -5
WOW! It still blows my mind that stuff like those are produced in nature. An artist couldn't paint them any more intricately. Very nice. BTW, did you dig the lajitas agate and sonora plume, or is there a source for it? I love those two.
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Post by socalagatehound on Aug 10, 2018 21:31:17 GMT -5
Thanks to all for your kind comments! More cabs soon to come.... nchillbilly , both are from purchased rough. The Sonora is available occasionally on eBay, but I try to buy it in Quartzsite so I can verify quality. I was lucky this year and found several nice pieces at the Pow Wow show in January. I think it all comes out of old collections. The Lajitas is an eBay purchase, again from an old collection. The Lajitas area is just west of the entrance to Big Bend National Park and closed to collecting. Many of the Texas collectors used to have access to those hills but I'm pretty sure the ranchers have closed it. I believe some was collected from roadwork areas when the 170 went in, but now I've heard Brewster County takes a dim view of roadside collecting. Sabre52 can probably give a more accurate account than I can. If you ever go to Quartzsite in January, that is the single best source of reasonably priced rough that I know of.
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