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Post by panamark on Dec 1, 2013 20:32:56 GMT -5
George,do you have to re-vice the rock each time? I see you have an adjustment mechanism on the vice, but it looks like it is maxed out right there.
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Post by panamark on Nov 27, 2013 22:32:55 GMT -5
Nice Chuck. And there is a finished piece of that wonderful, interesting breccia that we saw a while ago. That gorgeous stuff fascinates me. I think we figured it was glacial didn't we?
You got a darn nice polish even on the softer stuff.
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Post by panamark on Nov 27, 2013 22:28:11 GMT -5
Yup. Probably the fields and the town of Williston, ND CRAZY up there x 100 Saw an ad in a McDonalds - starting hires at $18 an hour! Ha, anybody that can work can get a better paying job there than that. There is a big sucking noise as people leave surrounding states to get work there. Neat picture. Thx for sharing.
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Post by panamark on Nov 27, 2013 20:16:11 GMT -5
Hey Scott, much of the Amy Sage I have seen is quite fractured. You think you can get a solid enough chunk for a cube? I guess you never said how big a cube, ha.
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Post by panamark on Nov 26, 2013 19:26:53 GMT -5
Holy cow that is a fantastic deal! They just kept getting better and better! That is a huge chunk of sodalite Congrats on that haul!
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Post by panamark on Nov 26, 2013 13:29:52 GMT -5
Nice work. Terrible subjects though, NY and Bosox, LOL. Just kidding ya from a Tigers fan. You are multi-talented
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Post by panamark on Nov 26, 2013 13:25:25 GMT -5
The swing arm has a clamp on the end and the weight of the rock drops it into the stationary blade. Simple but effective! Tony Yes, I am quite sure Tony had it figured. The one problem is that the saw can chatter, i.e. the rock is quite free it looks like to swing back. If the saw is too aggressive this can cause the rock to swing. But I am guessing that the feed (which is entirely dependent on the rock's weight) is quite slow. And it gets slower, and slower the closer to the arm being straight vertical. Conversely at first when starting on a rock it will be a relatively fast feed. Since the pivot point is behind the blades leading edge then it always will have a little angle and feed until the rock is finished. I would like to see this saw in action cutting an agate or something hard. Very interesting idea. Simple. Those German engineers, ha.
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Post by panamark on Nov 25, 2013 23:46:02 GMT -5
30 cents for Congolese malachite, even if it is only 1x1 piece seems like a great price now. But I just checked and in 1941 good sirloin steak was 22cents a pound! So maybe it wasn't so good.
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Post by panamark on Nov 25, 2013 23:40:40 GMT -5
very cool. just noticed that it was sold to someone in Flint Michigan. That's about 45 minutes from my house. Chuck Wow, I grew up in Flint Chuck, back at the end of the haydays of GM going strong! It is a sad city now.
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Post by panamark on Nov 25, 2013 19:18:43 GMT -5
WOW, I want to visit and just look. That is a great setup - enviable. Now you can just go downstairs and look around and enjoy!
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Post by panamark on Nov 25, 2013 19:16:07 GMT -5
Just a thought, but one good test is to shoot a picture of a color wheel&pattern instead of a rock. Then you can see how it is doing across the entire spectrum by comparing it onscreen to what the real wheel is as you hold in your hand. I think you can probably find a color wheel on line to print on a good color printer and then use as the baseline. Hope this helps.
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Post by panamark on Nov 25, 2013 10:37:29 GMT -5
Those are beauties Tony. Did you self collect that huge tube agate? I am surprised you let that variscite out of your sight to get cold, ha! It is gorgeous. Thx for sharing.
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Post by panamark on Nov 23, 2013 10:31:08 GMT -5
Yes, that is a buff robe - I shot it a few years back during a real interesting fishing trip to the B.Horn. Oh, you know you have to tell the rest of the story
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Post by panamark on Nov 23, 2013 10:27:05 GMT -5
Hi Steve. We really need a picture to help ID. Sounds very interesting.
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Post by panamark on Nov 23, 2013 2:21:02 GMT -5
Those are nice Scott. You definitely went for the big ones! Thanks for posting. Please also show some of the slab cuts - they should be good. I too wonder how one tells it is whale pet.bone?
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Post by panamark on Nov 23, 2013 2:15:54 GMT -5
Thanks Jean. I had almost given up on that thread and how it went "Rambo", LOL We always seem to get off on a tangent when things get slow,huh?
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Post by panamark on Nov 22, 2013 22:42:12 GMT -5
That one is exactly like the rindy stuff I have on some Crazy lace I am working up. Nice stuff!
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Post by panamark on Nov 22, 2013 22:39:43 GMT -5
Yep, more pics of material from the North Cady trip. Meanwhile still waiting for Scott's pics.
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Post by panamark on Nov 22, 2013 22:37:20 GMT -5
Wow Chuck, that is a huge variety to have in the same tumble. And they came out fantastic. That last one is fascinating to me. Looks like someone froze some frog-pond water on top. A micro world in itself. Any chance you could find another one?
Great stuff. Thanks!
<To make it even better this from our self collected lint ridge material> Would this be in the laundry room or more near the navel?
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Post by panamark on Nov 21, 2013 23:44:22 GMT -5
The bait shop in the town i lived in (Jonesboro) was requested to change it's name about 1985. 2 guesses Saw a gun shop one time that had some maintenance issues. The shop was called the "Spoiled Sportsman" but unfortunately the first "p" had fallen off the sign. Don't even ask what the senior kids pulled on the local restaurant's sign by covering one letter of "The Black Angus" Ouch, sorry for that one.
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