New Wire Wrapper on Deck!

[Bikerrandy]

Oh- and yes.... experiment. Lots!! I figure out something new every day. Sometimes I figure out not to do that anymore, and sometimes I get lucky and stuff works.

[drocknut]

Mar 28, 2010 21:56:00 GMT -5 Bikerrandy said:

Yep.... "practice, practice, practice", words to live by. ;D ....and larimar would be an expensive tumble wouldn't it? As far as having the right colors, I'm color blind, so it sure looks right to me. lol

Definitely Larimar would be an expensive tumble

I've never twisted wire before guess I'd like to get the wire wrapping down a little better before I try that. How about a tutorial on that Randy?

Glad you are getting different wire Krista. Now we expect to see more of your wrapping on here.

Diane

[upsided0wnducks]

Yes! Experimenting is the way I've learned! A lot of cheap wire has gone to the cause of me learning

[upsided0wnducks]

I will definitely post any new wraps!

[Bikerrandy]

K, I'll post a tutorial on twisting wire tomorrow. It's so easy that you're not gonna believe it!

[drocknut]

Mar 28, 2010 22:07:23 GMT -5 Bikerrandy said:

K, I'll post a tutorial on twisting wire tomorrow. It's so easy that you're not gonna believe it!

Ok, looking forward to that. Not sure about the twisting being easy since I'm a bit dexterity challenged... ;D

Diane

[upsided0wnducks]

lol I'm glad you're going to put one up, not sure I'd want to attempt it without seeing it done fist

[amyk]

I like the last one the best. Different and very pretty. Welcome aboard.

[upsided0wnducks]

Thank you!

[upsided0wnducks]

So... not to sound dumb or anything, but you guys keep saying that you use cabs and I use tumbled stones, but in all honesty I thought they were the same thing. What's the difference?

[Bikerrandy]

Cabs (cabochons) are cut and grinded one at a time on a cabbing machine. My cabbing machine looks alot like a bench grinder except that it has 6 wheels, three on each side. They range from 180 grit diamond to 3000 grit silicon carbide. The cabs are domed (rounded) on the front but flat on the back. I've got to mail a couple of packages this week, if you'd like you can PM your address to me and I'll send you a few to practice on. It's a different world!!

[Bikerrandy]

Here's mine, the Diamond Pacific Genie, third pic down. We saved money for a long time to get this one! lol...... www.cabbingmachines.com/diamond_pacific_cabbing_machines.shtml

[upsided0wnducks]

Thank you for the explanation!

That's a really cool looking machine, my dad has a few machines really similar but I'm darn sure they're not for rocks but for metal and wood, or at least that's what he uses them for

[drocknut]

I don't think you sounded dumb :2cents:
If you don't ask questions then how are you gonna learn anything.
Ask away, somebody will have an answer for you or as is usually the case more than one somebody will come by with an answer.

Diane

[Bikerrandy]

I will know most of the answers, since most of the questions will be the same ones that I asked in the beginning. That pretty much goes for most of the people on here!