|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 8, 2011 23:17:42 GMT -5
Just finished this one. It is 2-3/4" wide. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 8, 2011 18:39:11 GMT -5
I agree with you the longer that they extend unemployment benefits the more the slackers suck off the system. Most of the states have long ago exhausted their unemployment benefits pool of money. The federal government is just lending the money to the states and they are obligated to raise the witholding on current workers to pay for the slackers. The states have already dug themselves into a fiscal bottomless hole and the federal government is digging it deeper for them with the mandated unemployment benefits extensions. Bob Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 8, 2011 18:30:34 GMT -5
Spectacular cabs from some really special material! Great work! Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 7, 2011 23:06:50 GMT -5
We were driving into town today and we could see the new snow in the Sierras. HO! HO! HO! Merry Christmas......OOPS its too early for that! Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 7, 2011 22:45:19 GMT -5
A couple of years ago we went to the Gem Gallery and were allowed to take photos. I got one of the Hope Blue diamond. To me it didn't live up to its hype. It was a dull, dark blue. It wasn't very well lit, though and it was on a rotating turntable so you had to wait for it to turn your direction to get a shot of it. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 6, 2011 10:19:55 GMT -5
We got a chance to meet him and chat briefly in June last year at our Grand daughter's high school graduation. Steve's son was graduating in the same class. He was looking rather gaunt and slightly frail then, but he still had his focus and determination for his creations. I hope his predecessors can keep up the momentum. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 5, 2011 20:57:27 GMT -5
Ed, I got three usable slabs plus the skin that is unusable other than as a tumbling piece. You got the righ piece identified that I used for the cab. The dark diagonal line on the slab was one of the fractures in the slab so I seperated the pieces at that fracture and used the longer piece for the cab. Thank you all for the compliments on the cab. I'll probably cab another piece of one of the slabs rather soon. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 5, 2011 18:06:37 GMT -5
All the tax lawyers and accountants, corporate lobbiests currently churning the tax system would be out of work so they alone could raise a lot of problems to a simple tax code. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 5, 2011 18:01:10 GMT -5
There currently is a bill in congress to make the eVerify system mandatory for all employers. Currently it is voluntary. This system checks new employee job application data against the government's Social Security data base. It weeds out the illegals that are using stolen or otherwise illegally gotten SS numbers. (Isn't using someone else's SS numbers identity theft, a punishable crime??). This system would get the illegals working at Taco Bell, MacDonalds and such out of there so our young people could get those jobs. The farmers are against the program but there currently is a visa system available to hire these illegals as temporary workers but the farmers don't want to be forced to use the program. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 5, 2011 17:42:39 GMT -5
Beautiful Roostertal! You don't see much of this in cabs anymore Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 5, 2011 1:12:12 GMT -5
Sometimes cutting a rock in a differnt manner will give you some suprises. Some time in the past I bought this piece of Brazilian Agate. I don't recall when or where I got it but I do know why I bought it. As you can see in this photo it was cut across the pattern, which is the most common way to do it. There are some very obvious red bands visible in the piece. It was about 6" long, 4" wide and about 1" thick. Here is a photo of the opposite edge. This is the back side which shows the size of the piece as well as the original rind. This is the faced cut that the original slabber left the piece with. There is a coarse druzy in the middle and the piece does have fractures all the way across the face in an "X" pattern. What caught my eye was the brilliance, thickness and flat layering of the red bands. I gripped the piece on the opposite long sides in my rock gripper and proceeded to slab it parallel with the red bands. Here is a photo of the first slab. As you can see a section had broken off at one of the fractures. Here it is backlit on one side. Backlit on the other side. Here is another slab backlit. Here is a smaller piece backlit. Keep this image in mind as you will see it again a little later. Here are some of the pieces of slabs backlit with a photoflood light. As you can see slabbing parallel to the bands produces some really spectacular slabs thet you wouldn't expect just looking at the rough piece. Here is a cab I just finished from one of the smaller slabs previously shown. Can you guess which piece that it came from? It is 2-3/4" tall. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 3, 2011 22:09:22 GMT -5
I would worry more about the asbestos that might be on or in the material. The Clear Creek area is noted for it; so much so that I believe the collecting site has been closed down because of the asbestos. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 3, 2011 22:05:56 GMT -5
I usually mix it three parts resin to two parts hardener. I have found that it seems to set up faster and slightly harder. I can't explain why. though. I saw this method as a tip in a club bulletin many years ago. It definitely needs to be very thoroughly! Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 3, 2011 0:03:57 GMT -5
You really captured the pattern superbly in that one! Great cab! Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Oct 1, 2011 0:01:31 GMT -5
I'm having difficulties understanding what activities you would be doing on the top part of the wheel especially where it is rotating directly at you. I always work from just below center on the front, downward to about the 5 o'clock position so I can't forsee any reason to cut the top cover especially since it will result in more spray coming at you. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Sept 30, 2011 23:49:24 GMT -5
Some really spectacular crazies! I really like the one with the small orbs. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Sept 30, 2011 0:13:51 GMT -5
I'm not sure exactly what this one is so I'm guessing Brazilian. 1-3/4" tall. Backlit. Bob l
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Sept 29, 2011 22:18:10 GMT -5
Also, I had asked the doctor to look around up there for my head because on occasion my wife has said it might be found there. It wasn't, though. Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Sept 29, 2011 21:46:37 GMT -5
.....preparing for and getting a colonoscopy. I had my last one 3 years ago and they found 7 polyps so as a precaution I had this one. I have changed my diet considerably since the last one. I eat high fiber foods a lot, lots of fresh fruits and vegtables, fish and seafood, very infrequent meat ( no chicken because I hate it, no pork, lamb, a few hamburgers). Only ONE polyp this time and no colonoscopy for 5 years! My brother neglected to ever get a colonoscopy and two years ago he got colon cancer. After surgery and ugly chemotherapy he has survived so far but the cancer cells are slowly multiplying and he isn't sure he wants to suffer through chemo again. If you are 50 or so a colonoscopy is advised! Bob
|
|
|
Post by bobby1 on Sept 27, 2011 12:10:01 GMT -5
Adrian's question is along the same line as wondering how they measured the size of hail stones before the game of golf was invented. Bob
|
|