hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 4, 2015 15:23:57 GMT -5
I have a friend who is getting into making earrings... and he is looking for a high quality post and back... for a good price of course...
Kingsley North has an assortment, their most expensive being $2 a piece, unless you bulk buy you can get them down to $1... Does anyone know the quality of these? Do you have any suggestions at finding a quality earring back?
Thank you!
Ernie
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 4, 2015 13:21:58 GMT -5
not sure of hardness... but my knife will not even think about scratching it.
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 4, 2015 13:21:24 GMT -5
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 4, 2015 13:19:49 GMT -5
I may have posted this a while back... maybe not... but this is a piece of Jade from Wyoming... its down in Thermopolis at a sweet rock shop.... couple thousand pounds... what dreams are made of!!!
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 4, 2015 12:06:10 GMT -5
My first batch I used a 40-60 and there is definitely a different between that and the straight Kingsley 80, but I cant quantify the diff since Im such a newby. I will be using this 80 at least until its all gone, which should be the better part of half this year!
Keep Rollin!
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 3, 2015 12:10:47 GMT -5
Same marks are common on the bigger agates found in or near the river! or big pieces of Pet wood, chert, etc...
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Post by hornseeker on Feb 3, 2015 12:10:13 GMT -5
Sorry for the delay Snowmom... So yeah, tons of conchoidal "marks" caused from impact while sitting in the Yellowstone river for umptine thousands of years!! Funny though, it must have been sitting in a certain position for a long time, because the marks are only on one side.... here ya go... side 1: other side:
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 15:52:45 GMT -5
Agate beach is on my list... my girlfriend was there 4-5 years ago and says she came home with a load of agates! Unfortunately, they are not with her (at her x's I guess??) and that sucks! I will spur her to try and get hold of them...he cares NOT about rocks.
Nice FINDS! Of course we are interested in more pics. Experiment with light and such... sometimes you gotta mess around to get it "just right"...
Thanks!
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 15:49:04 GMT -5
I will hopefully have two 15#ers going within a couple months... I'll throw it in with smalls and see what happens... its pretty hard... jasper hardness Id say.. so it ought to take a shine. I have about 4 of these big ones I want to do.
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hornseeker
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 12:10:19 GMT -5
I wonder what all this poor little rock went through to get to Forsyth Montana....? Plan to have it sliced and diced... not sure what I'll do with it then.
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 10:53:16 GMT -5
Snowmom, the Ellensburg Blue is a beautiful agate and is commonly found in the alluvial plain just to the west northwest of ellensburg. ALmost 100% found on private lands. For a public hounder though, there is some opportunity because the county roads cut through this material and you can go walk the roads and find them (I hear tell... although I never found one!!) They are a gem quality agate.
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 10:51:18 GMT -5
Iso, do you still have the other bookends with that were more green and black? Or did you give those to someone?
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 30, 2015 8:56:56 GMT -5
Hey thanks coming coming aboard... Im fairly new here too, but anyhow, welcome Iso... and all this is my best friend from long long ago...
Next time I come to visit him (So Cal) I am going to pick all your brains for a good hounding spot we can hit! This guy loves rocks, but he's not so into "pretty" rocks as much as just those that have had havoc wreaked upon them by the earth for umptine millions of years...
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 29, 2015 18:09:59 GMT -5
I bet it will be a year or so before I get over there, but maybe before then I'll be able to do some online scouting and find a better spot. I dont remember being picky about what I grabbed, so I dont even remember if what I grabbed was rare or abundant.
If anyone living in the area wants to go look... just ask and I'll send you a map to the proximity! Only rule is you have to post pics of what you find!
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 29, 2015 12:08:30 GMT -5
I cant stop obsessing over this rock now... want more bad!!
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 29, 2015 11:50:18 GMT -5
I'll take a look at that link in a bit Snow. That is really interesting about the potential impact crater being the cause of this rock. I cant remember much about the geology of that area, even though my buddy that went through school there getting a geology degree used to talk about it non stop... just too long ago!!! hehehe I do know that I am itching bad to get back there and look for more of these boulders/rocks. I have a feeling it wouldn't take much effort to find more. I amy also be able to trace to source, but then again ,the source may be eroded away and all that is left is alluvium, which is fine cause I like looking for rocks in alluvium best! Now if it wasnt 11 hours drive away!! On the other hand, there are a lot of cool sites around there and I would be able to incorporate several hounding jaunts into one trip, as well as visit some old friends!
I am not a veteran (thanks to all who are)... I am just a gun enthusiast and shooter that has had guns in hand since I could walk. The AR is an incredible gun... fun to shoot, affordable to shoot.
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 29, 2015 11:16:04 GMT -5
Looking great. I am a newbie, but just thinking everyone has the right idea in going back to 60/90 and making sure the barrel is pretty dang full.
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 28, 2015 13:58:09 GMT -5
Sweet.
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 28, 2015 13:56:41 GMT -5
And for those interested... this is the AR-15 I built... Fun guns... and particularly useful when the Zombie Apocolypse happens!
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Post by hornseeker on Jan 28, 2015 13:54:23 GMT -5
So, in about 1992 I was in college and my buddy was getting a geology degree... turned out the geology department had a big old saw with about a 3 foot blade and Chris had access to use it. Not sure what the level of freedom he was supposed to have, but turned out we made about 6 sets of bookends. Anyhow, one day we went out looking for some rocks to make bookends out of, off the Yakima River between Cle Elum and Ellensburg, Washington, just off the east slope of the cascades. I found this 80-100 pound boulder that fit the bill... it was bascally reddish on the outside...wish I had pics... We cut these bookends out of it and I've admired them for years. They are just cut, then sprayed with lacquer. I want to polish them someday! Well... a couple nights ago, after my newly found obsession with tumbling and polishing rocks, I grabbed them off the shelf and started looking at them and realized just how amazing a boulder that was... take a look at this thing. What do you think it is? Jasper? THe mottling/marbling of the colors is insane. Not sure of hardness... might have to test it someday... Pics suck of course... but the color range is so awesome and some of the greens really go into a teal, bluish green color! Then there was last Saturday afternoon. I recently "assembled" and AR-15 5.56mm. I ran south of billings on a gravel road to test it out. After firing a few rounds to make sure it cycled well, I looked down and saw a pretty rock. The gravel on all the roads around here comes from Yellowstone River alluvium... so I spent 20 minutes walking around... picked up about 5# of not so great stuff, but interesting, tumble-able material... then ran into this: Its the biggest Ystone agate I've found and Ive spent a LOT of hours walking the river bottom looking at gravel bars! It doens't appear to have a lot of moss or color, but still!!!
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