Post by 3rdrockfromthefun on Aug 2, 2012 20:55:24 GMT -5
Okay... after nearly two weeks of devotion to corner rounding (hour after hour, grinding corners, going for symmetry, going for 'smoooooth...') I had to take a break. I hadn't really gotten around to doing anything (other than cutting some big hunks with my 10") with the candy rock rhyolite I'd bought. Also, more and more I like having one or two tubs filled with chunks of rock that look like they might make potentially nice cabs (pre-pre-forms ?). "Why not have it all", I thought...
So I got out my estwing, hunted the yard for some CRR (it was like Easter - I was made young again!) and took an estwing to a couple of hunks once my quarry was made.
I took the the chunklettes I liked the most inside and fed them to my new Krystee saw (damn little thing cut 'em like butter - my 10" did nothing but complain - I like Krystee saw). I tried pay particular attention to slicing pieces to make patterns that might be nice for one or two shot cabbing.
Here's what she did:
Dry
Wet
Closeup
Ain't she sweet? I'm bringing this saw an ice cream cone. Maybe two - she's a hungry little thing!
Next I reached in and pulled out a rock and cabbed it. It felt good, I must say. All I've been doing is rounds for days (not even whole cabs - just working on my rounds (I'll make 'em proud one day...) so I reverted to my favorite style of late for this - the wicked pointed offset square. And they are wicked - drop one and do the old flying catch reflex thing and you'll bleed to prove it - SHARP POINTS! I'll have to work on a variation for that...
Anyway, just one cab:
And here shown with her un-cabbed un-polished adjacent rock-mate so you can see both wild and domesticated versions of that pattern:
Back to rounds... thanks for looking!
So I got out my estwing, hunted the yard for some CRR (it was like Easter - I was made young again!) and took an estwing to a couple of hunks once my quarry was made.
I took the the chunklettes I liked the most inside and fed them to my new Krystee saw (damn little thing cut 'em like butter - my 10" did nothing but complain - I like Krystee saw). I tried pay particular attention to slicing pieces to make patterns that might be nice for one or two shot cabbing.
Here's what she did:
Dry
Wet
Closeup
Ain't she sweet? I'm bringing this saw an ice cream cone. Maybe two - she's a hungry little thing!
Next I reached in and pulled out a rock and cabbed it. It felt good, I must say. All I've been doing is rounds for days (not even whole cabs - just working on my rounds (I'll make 'em proud one day...) so I reverted to my favorite style of late for this - the wicked pointed offset square. And they are wicked - drop one and do the old flying catch reflex thing and you'll bleed to prove it - SHARP POINTS! I'll have to work on a variation for that...
Anyway, just one cab:
And here shown with her un-cabbed un-polished adjacent rock-mate so you can see both wild and domesticated versions of that pattern:
Back to rounds... thanks for looking!
