one80mike
freely admits to licking rocks
@(-_-)@ Princess Leia!
Member since February 2007
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Post by one80mike on Dec 2, 2007 21:18:35 GMT -5
UNBELIEVABLE!
That thing is flippin' sweet!
WOW!
Mike
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Post by Titania on Dec 3, 2007 9:12:39 GMT -5
Holy shine-ola batman! That would make one gorgeous desk ornament.  |
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onewomanarmy
has rocks in the head
Carpe Silicis!
Member since January 2007
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Post by onewomanarmy on Dec 3, 2007 10:02:34 GMT -5
wow Don - that is just beautiful!!! I love that "look" in a rock as it is - but that...wow. Beautiful.
wow.
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 4, 2007 10:51:13 GMT -5
I gotta go with everyone else here. That is the prettiest rock I've seen tumbled here. Just breathtaking. And that shine, man that's off the charts. Great job!!!!!!!
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Post by rockyraccoon on Dec 5, 2007 1:11:01 GMT -5
i would have probably missed this if i hadn't seen the remark about it under the pic of the garnets (which by the way are outstanding). but since i did see the remark i went in search of the stone canyon and my, my i am glad i did don! super job!
kim
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since July 2009
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Post by rollingstone on Apr 27, 2013 0:51:25 GMT -5
Sorry for bringing this very old thread back to the top, but I came across a post in a recent thread about tumbling large rocks, where Parfive had referenced this old post but noted that most of the pics were gone. Well, they weren't deleted, just re-organized years ago, which broke the links. You used to be able to just modify the old posts without bringing them back to the top, but I don't see any way to do that on this thread now, so I'll add back the photos in this reply, which I think will end up also bumping this old thread from 2007 to the top of the list again. Oops. Anyway, the polished pics, as per the old thread... same side, polished:   Other side:  An end view:  While I'm at it, I might as well add some pics of this stone when I first tumbled it with agates (Botswana, Lake Superior and Montana agates). As mentioned, the big Stone Canyon chunk beat the crap out of the agates so I didn't run things this way for long:  I found small garnets made a much better filler, their tiny size balancing out the big chunk. I don't have any pics of that set-up during coarse grind, but here's one from somewhere in the run from fine-grind through to polish (these stages were all done with just the big Stone Canyon piece and small garnets only):  Oh, and the garnets turned out well also:  -Don |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Apr 27, 2013 6:23:41 GMT -5
Wow, this is an old thread! ;D .... Happy to see it again, I actually remember this one and it doesn't seem like almost 6 years has went by. That's a beautiful stone and I'm enjoying looking at it again. Do you still have it?
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jamesp
Cave Dweller 
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Post by jamesp on Apr 27, 2013 7:04:10 GMT -5
This is a special thread for sure.To tumble that beauty in that little barrel is amazing.I would have to go to the grave w/that one!I thought about reposting that where i saw Parfive refered to it somewhere else recently but am too new a member and did not feel worthy
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Deleted Member
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 13:46:55 GMT -5
Bump
Love that stone
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luvtogrow
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since November 2012
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Post by luvtogrow on May 27, 2016 14:01:24 GMT -5
WOW!! Me too.
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Post by orrum on May 27, 2016 16:12:52 GMT -5
Wow old thread but look at that stone and the garnets!
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