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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:26:30 GMT -5
Cool, Henry!! Don't have a clue. Looks like a caterpillar. Petrified equine sphincter omg, LOL!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:23:33 GMT -5
Holy smokes, that is a gorgeous cab and slabs! Where are these t-eggs found?
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:19:03 GMT -5
Beautiful pieces, bhiatt. The first one you posted is wow!!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:17:40 GMT -5
Lookin' good, NDK! Nice backlit shot of your Montana cab!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:15:06 GMT -5
Good to see you posting, unclestu! I hope you are on the mend after your eye surgeries and looking forward to seeing your cabs soon! Beautiful materials and your Kaleidoscopic jasper slab is crazy cool.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:11:37 GMT -5
Beautiful booth display and major score with the machines!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:08:14 GMT -5
Your Montana pick looks awesome, NDK, and your new machine did a sweet job! Are you enjoying your machine and have you done any other modifications to it?
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 12:03:14 GMT -5
Rick corrected me on calling the silver recessed round pieces, "cams." He said they might be called 'guides,' but they were not cams.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 11:40:41 GMT -5
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 11:14:02 GMT -5
Score for your mom and dad, stephan!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 11:11:55 GMT -5
Hi, seejey, and Welcome to the RTH forum! Thanks for sharing your information on how to stabilize lapidary materials. I really like your Mochovce opal cab. It turned out nicely after you stabilized it. Opals are one of my favorites, and haven't heard of the Mochovce opal before. Thank you for sharing it with us. It's a beautiful opal! Did you collect the opal yourself? I checked mindat's website for information on it. They have a beautiful specimen of it posted.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 11:02:07 GMT -5
Use to have pine cone battles as a kid. Had to take off your t shirt too. It was rough at times. My brother and neighbor kids use to have mud clod battles too after the garden was plowed in the spring. That really hurt at times ! Pine cone battles...ROFL garock! jamesp, I sure hope she doesn't have you searching for cattails this summer. Water moccasin heaven... Pinecones look purdy spray painted gold. I collected some out of our yard and placed them in a wrought iron basket. Birds like 'em, too, with some peanut butter on the cones.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 10:42:04 GMT -5
Very nice shop, 1dave! I love your skylights. Since your woodshop has been turned into your new lapidary shop, where is your woodshop equipment? Nice water spreader for your Covington belt sander. How do you like the belt sander? I thought about getting one after having worked on an old bader machine on a polishing line many moons ago. Thank you for posting your photos!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 10:12:44 GMT -5
Beautiful slabs, Gentlemen!! Don, I love your Desert Sand slab and the colors/patterns in it. woodman, I think your Biggs is sweet and the polishing on it looks great! ...A slab of dendritic Biggs that has been heat treated in a kiln. The heat treating brought out some nice purple colors. Has this one arrived yet, jakesrocks? I don't think I've ever seen a heat-treated picture jasper, but remember Mrs. Pat's heat-treating experiment with Marra Mamba. I think it was Marra Mamba? Mrs. Pat? I have a slab that has a purplish-colored sky that Krystee tntmom sent to me that is very pretty. I think it may be Biggs, but not sure. I'll try to take a pic of it and post it to see if y'all may be able to help identify it.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 29, 2015 9:58:48 GMT -5
jakesrocks, I will post pics. I want to try and give it a good scrubbing today. There are not any serial numbers on the machine that we can find. We believe Cowboy orrum may be right on his first guess about Tommy's mystery machine, and that it may be an unfinished project or there are parts missing. Rick thinks the machine may have been mounted vertically. ...I think it looks like a homemade preforming device to make round cabs. Place cutout slab between the 2 round 'pads', set the depth with the screw fixture and place in front of a wheel. Needs a spring or something to keep pressure on the grinding wheel. Motor turns the preform slowly, wheel eats the high spots till the prescribed diameter is reached. Really similar in concept to, but much more crude than...a rose engine. We also agree with cobbledstones that it was probably used as a homemade preforming device where you could place a slab with an 1 1/2" diameter between the 'cams' and set the depth with the screw fixture and place cams in front of a grinding wheel. You could also make round cabs without the cams. It could be modified to make different shapes with different cams. If there was a missing tension spring it may have been used to keep it against the grinding wheel. When we purchased my used Graves CabMate, the lady I purchased it from sent me the Graves preformer with the motor, dop, bracket to mount to the machine, and a couple of cams. The preformer can be attached to most cabbing and faceting machines. We purchased a spindle and cam set since she misplaced them. I haven't used the preformer. I think it may be missing the parts that hold the cab. Graves CabMate preformer with spool attachment Link to Graves Company's preformer attached to faceting machine and CabMate: www.gravescompany.com/preforme.htmI wonder if inventor wasn't trying to make a round cab preform lathe. Perfectly round and the flip is for polish. Imagine a sorta round preform placed between the two aluminum disks, then clamped in place. Turn it on and using sandpapers rough, medium and fine grind the edge, then flip it to polish. Remove perfectly round cab, then is cabbed normally on regular machines.We may try your experiment, @shotgunner, but we may have to figure out how to get water to the cab so we don't have to get the daylights shocked out of us, lol.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 27, 2015 14:03:11 GMT -5
Thank You Very Much, Tommy, for the 'extra padding'!!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 27, 2015 13:56:06 GMT -5
Mystery machine has arrived! Rick is not scheduled to work this weekend so we should have lots of time to 'play' with it.
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 27, 2015 11:58:56 GMT -5
Enjoyed your vacation photos, booboo, and your Wyoming jade is beautiful!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 27, 2015 11:28:00 GMT -5
It kinda looks like striped flint, jf23. Pretty!
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Post by gingerkid on Mar 27, 2015 11:24:28 GMT -5
Your GA granite tumbles look like they are coming along great, jamesp. Very pretty! How much GA red clay are you placing in your tumbler with the granite and granite pea gravel? Does the clay give you any problem with staining the granite? Ya know I gotta do it ---- captbob!
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