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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 8, 2019 11:12:36 GMT -5
Hey Bluesky78987 Susan, you'll be there. Gives you a chance to load up buckets by just picking them up ๐. Bring the checkbook! In all seriousness, I'm a cabber, so I don't think this works for me. I know she has collected lots of cool stuff on the best ranches, and the price at or about $5/lb is fair, but sight unseen and the tiny rocks as filler is a downer. I'm hoping she allows some picking at some point in this. I know killer stuff is in there.... somewhere ๐ Yeah, depending on what she has left, I'm hoping she'll sell me a few nice cutters, but I don't want to wade through a whole unsorted bucket.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 7, 2019 15:33:18 GMT -5
Oh lordy. Wow.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 7, 2019 15:25:34 GMT -5
Hard to pick which one to vote for! All very beautiful.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 5, 2019 12:33:28 GMT -5
Wow, so many creative names! Very fun!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 5, 2019 12:29:29 GMT -5
That is totally bitchin. You get the best rocks! Someday you'll have to do a post with all the duds from your estate buys to make the rest of us feel better! jk.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 4, 2019 13:36:26 GMT -5
Love those. Can I ask how you did the border on the first one? Is that thick sheet that you formed, or strip? or ? And the cutouts are with your jeweler's saw right? Bluesky78987 It is classic southwestern You solder a triangle wire to the plate surrounding the bezel. Then saw into it with a jewlers saw 1/3 of the way top and bottom, 1/2 way on the sides for this one. After sawing some, all, or none of the slots are filed to get the design. I did half round on the sides top and bottom, leaving just the saw cut middle. Half round and full round on the sides. Vic Interesting. I'm gonna have to study that more! Thanks for the explanation. Adding triangle wire to my Rio cart . . .
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 4, 2019 11:25:15 GMT -5
Love those. Can I ask how you did the border on the first one? Is that thick sheet that you formed, or strip? or ? And the cutouts are with your jeweler's saw right?
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 4, 2019 11:22:00 GMT -5
I'm slow too. Probably about an hour at least, for a hard stone like an agate. So slow that I stopped thinking about it and work in batches, rather than taking one stone from start to finish. I have little jars now labeled with the grits, and I just grab the jar I feel like working on and progress those cabs up the line a bit during each cabbing session.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 4, 2019 11:19:59 GMT -5
That is a beautiful stone. Split it in half and make moons? That's what I would do โ remove it from the dop, break it if that doesn't do it, and cut straight or slightly convex sides on the broken edges. I've made a number of 2-cab or 3-cab pendants where one or two of the cabs were semicircular or roughly half-moon shapes. They make for interesting pendant designs that sell well.
Same here. Or set it aside in a "to try to fix later when I learn about Hyxtal and Opticon" tupperware (mine is getting pretty full!)
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 2, 2019 19:22:03 GMT -5
Thanks all!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 1, 2019 11:30:33 GMT -5
gemfeller, that looks like snow in Bryce Canyon. Makes me nostalgic for the time there was fog/mist/cloud there one time that I saw. I lived in Idaho and Utah and the stone's pattern reminds me of many such scenes -- patchy snow on mountainsides and areas like Bryce. Thanks for noticing. I hope to live in Utah someday, maybe.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 1, 2019 10:13:01 GMT -5
gemfeller, that looks like snow in Bryce Canyon. Makes me nostalgic for the time there was fog/mist/cloud there one time that I saw.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 31, 2019 12:13:15 GMT -5
I haven't cabbed glass but it should work. It won't cut nicely in the trim saw though - get one of those glass cutters the mosaic artists or contractors use.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 31, 2019 12:01:26 GMT -5
Here's mine, in under the wire . . . A bit of crazy lace. Ended up looking a bit like dirty snow however. Forgot to take a size reference piece - it's about the size of a quarter. Anyway, here it is: Slab: Preform: Cab:
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 30, 2019 10:56:39 GMT -5
100% would buy. Gorgeous.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 30, 2019 10:54:35 GMT -5
I like it- it looks like crushed velvet. Exactly.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 29, 2019 11:21:55 GMT -5
Great work! Thanks for sharing and inspiring us too!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 29, 2019 11:07:40 GMT -5
Like that deep pink! Beautiful.
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 26, 2019 18:01:52 GMT -5
Hi Kevin. You were sunk as soon as you looked at Silverhawk's site. DEADLY. I have the same problem! Your next step is "Gee, I wish I could set these pieces in silver . . . hmm . . . silversmithing classes!"
I reckon you're somewhere near Oregon or Norcal? (Obsidian plus red/yellow jasper + gold + carnelian + thundereggs)? Either that or Mexico maybe lol. I'm in Los Angeles, nearl LAX. Welcome!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jan 26, 2019 17:50:32 GMT -5
Yippee! Thanks everybody - lots of other beautiful entries, I was amazed the little green Christmas tree didn't run away with it. Thanks beefjello for the prize too! I'll contribute a prize for February's contest. Let's see . . . what will the theme be? We did hearts last year, and I think we did pink/red the year before, so let's depart from Hallmark holidays and go with: One Cab Wonders! Cabs from slabettes or rocks or endcuts where you basically just cab the whole thing, or where the material is only big enough for one cab, even if you end up cutting a bit of boring part off. Ideally though, ones where you just clean up the edges and dome it.
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