plantfood
starting to shine!
Member since May 2008
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Post by plantfood on Jun 24, 2008 15:37:39 GMT -5
I have no idea what this is, but it is currently sitting in my front yard with some flowers. I found it near Marquette, Michigan and thought it would like nice in my yard. US quarter for size in the last pic Hope you like it. Russell
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Post by Tweetiepy on Jun 24, 2008 15:46:56 GMT -5
Not sure what it is but it sure looks angry! (in the first picture the lighted portion at the bottom middle-right side) It also looks like a glazed cinnamon bun!
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by SteveHolmes on Jun 24, 2008 18:08:07 GMT -5
Nice eye Tweet! I see the Ogre myself. I sur ehope nobody mistakes it for a cinnamon bun! Cool little rock! Steve
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lparker
fully equipped rock polisher
Still doing too much for being retired!
Member since March 2008
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Post by lparker on Jun 24, 2008 19:36:44 GMT -5
You know...if that was mine, I'd slab it out and give one slab to each of the first...oh....50 people that messaged me....but that's just me. Beautiful rock!
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plantfood
starting to shine!
Member since May 2008
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Post by plantfood on Jun 24, 2008 21:13:21 GMT -5
I thought about it, but the poor little tile saw I have isn't going to do the job and I am hesitant to take a hammer to it . I wasn't sure if i had anything worthwhile, either.
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Post by catmandewe on Jun 24, 2008 22:28:22 GMT -5
Make sure you water it, so it can grow up to be big and stong!
One of those pictures makes it look like a huge laker, but the more I study it, the more I think it is a reflection in the water. Too bad, a laker that big and you could get a new saw, and maybe a house!
Still a nice find................Tony
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plantfood
starting to shine!
Member since May 2008
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Post by plantfood on Jun 24, 2008 23:27:26 GMT -5
I thought it was one at first too, actually. But it doesn't have any of the fine lines that the other agates had, but I haven't broken it either. It sure was heavy carrying it to the car and putting it in the trunk though!
Yeah that reflection isn't real. the color is solid through the pits
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Post by Noosh9057 on Jun 25, 2008 7:37:01 GMT -5
Well dont no what it is but it is cool.
Roger
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Post by texaswoodie on Jun 26, 2008 8:08:05 GMT -5
Third pic, upper center looks like a little fortification to me. I bet that rascal would make some great slabs!
Curt
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Post by Michael John on Jun 26, 2008 14:03:50 GMT -5
I thought about it, but the poor little tile saw I have isn't going to do the job and I am hesitant to take a hammer to it . I wasn't sure if i had anything worthwhile, either. Obviously, it's agate, regardless of it's particular label. IMO, a terrible waste in your garden. You don't have to take a hammer to it to divide into manageable pieces. Using your WF, just make parallel score lines across the stone, as deeply as possible without binding the blade. Make your first pass, then go progressively deeper. Once your scores are done, use a wide-bladed metal chisel in the score lines. A few good whacks on the chisel will then split the stone. This way, you end-up with pieces which are about the size that you want them, without a lot of little unusable small shards that you'd get by hammer-bashing. You'll also do very little fracturing this way, too. When you chisel-split, the split won't exactly follow the score, but it gives you moderate control over the approximate size of the resulting pieces.
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Post by rocklicker on Jun 26, 2008 23:57:24 GMT -5
Cool rock. I bet a workforce would shudder looking at that monster. I vote keeping it whole because it looks so cool just as it is. Maybe if you water it, it will sprout new rocks ;D Whatever you do, it will look nice. Steve
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Trilobite
noticing nice landscape pebbles
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Post by Trilobite on Jun 27, 2008 9:08:08 GMT -5
I'd also leave it whole. JMHO
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