Some cabs made out of heat treated coral

[jamesp]

Thanks for looking

[Drummond Island Rocks]

Those are great James. I really like that second photo, looks like a face too.

Chuck

[jamesp]

Those are not my art work Chuck.A Florida fellow made those.I am mastering the heat treating.I want some one to cab some heat treated coral and send me or post a photo of the cab(s).Are you a cabber?

[beefjello]

Beautiful cabs James!

[Don]

have you posted these before? they look real familiar. pretty cool colors you get after they've been cooked.

[gingerkid]

Really nice material, James. Why are you heat treating the coral? The second cab looks like a smiley face to me and has some awesome coral in it.

Haven't cabbed any coral before and hope someone offers to cab some of your material.

[jamesp]

The cooking changes the color Jan.I am learning the process and have it figured out.The secret was my wife's convection oven.Pack your coral in sand in a cake dish and raise temp 50-80 degrees every hour till you hit 550/600 and leave it there for 3-4 hours.Turn off oven and let it cool(about 6-8 hours).Good winter project for keeping the house warm.Indians did this to make the coral more workable when making arrowheads-perhaps for color too...You never know what color you will end up with.

[Deleted]

dude, I can't wait for my box! It's here but I can't find time to get to the mailbox store. Dang!

[FrogAndBearCreations]

Those are cool!

[jamesp]

Only about 25 percent of that coral changes.To avoid wasting energy,i heated sample chips off of 25-30 larger chunks,then matched the chips back to the large pieces.The rind is where the color action is both before or after heat treatment.This is all new to me.

[Bikerrandy]

Those are really cool!!

[jcinpc]

I thought I reconized my rock, thats my coral and my cabs a before and after cooking

[jamesp]

Your the man jcinpc.I copied those photos from another forum i had done a search on.It was a discussion on heat treatment.i can't remember what forum it was.I just knew they were amazing.

[helens]

I am learning SOOOOOO much from these posts!!! Thank you!!!

[jamesp]

I just learned a whole lot more from jcinpc Helen.His material looks exactly like the Zephyr Hills stuff.The only pieces i found of that quality were small corals about 3-6 inches.Never found large pieces that had such pretty centers as jcinpc.

[gingerkid]

Hi, James! Does your wife still use her convection oven? ;D Interesting that you have cooked them in it.

Just for fun...a video of some dudes making "diamonds" from charcoal using peanut butter and a microwave.

[Deleted]

faceted too! They are geniuses? genii??

[roy]

very kool !!!

[rattlehead]

Those look great!

[Fossilman]

Freakin' awesome Jim!!!