Rock quality-pits, cracks,voids and hardness

[jamesp]

Thanks Sabre52

Botswana

Moctazumas:

[napoleonrags]

The brown with subtle shades of brown jasper that I find in the grasslands polishes well, but it's, well, kinda brown. The desert or prarie jasper (can't remember the name) sold on The Rock Shed is amazing and less expensive tHan other material. It also forms quicly: it's on that boarder with just hard enough to polish well.

As far as buying stuff, I think the Desert Jasper is the best bang for the buck.

Gather no moss,
Colin

[jamesp]

A few good ones mentioned. Everyone of them can be in poor quality though.
Or poorly shaped for tumbling. Or porous and pitted, especially around the rind.

Botswana
Moctazumas
Brazilian Agate
Lakers
Montana
Snakeskin
Many petrified woods
Some petrified corals
Bloodstone
Bahia
Carnelian
Desert Jasper

[napoleonrags]

Apr 20, 2017 21:36:31 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Thanks Sabre52

Botswana

Moctazumas:

As Stimpy would say "Whilikers." That thing might beat everything in my modest collection.

[jamesp]

Apr 20, 2017 21:43:25 GMT -5 napoleonrags said:

The brown with subtle shades of brown jasper that I find in the grasslands polishes well, but it's, well, kinda brown. The desert or prarie jasper (can't remember the name) sold on The Rock Shed is amazing and less expensive tHan other material. It also forms quicly: it's on that boarder with just hard enough to polish well.

As far as buying stuff, I think the Desert Jasper is the best bang for the buck.

Gather no moss,
Colin

Colin is having good results with Desert jasper.

Does it look like this Colin ? :

[jamesp]

Apr 20, 2017 21:48:02 GMT -5 napoleonrags said:

Apr 20, 2017 21:36:31 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Thanks Sabre52

Botswana

Moctazumas:

As Stimpy would say "Whilikers." That thing might beat everything in my modest collection.

Looks like greenbacks Colin.

[jamesp]

Georgia coral. Small chips. Inspected with light for fractures. Out of the prime heart of a coral head.
Lots of waste getting prime material using a hammer. These are easy tumbles.
Any one of them will slice a fresh deer hide into ribbons as if a razor.









But not so fast, most coral has a fingerprint that shows up in glare:

[napoleonrags]

Apr 20, 2017 21:51:42 GMT -5 jamesp said:

Apr 20, 2017 21:43:25 GMT -5 napoleonrags said:

The brown with subtle shades of brown jasper that I find in the grasslands polishes well, but it's, well, kinda brown. The desert or prarie jasper (can't remember the name) sold on The Rock Shed is amazing and less expensive tHan other material. It also forms quicly: it's on that boarder with just hard enough to polish well.

As far as buying stuff, I think the Desert Jasper is the best bang for the buck.

Gather no moss,
Colin

Colin is having good results with Desert jasper.

Does it look like this Colin ? :

That's the ticket.

[jamesp]

Thanks napoleonrags

[rastageezer]

Just started rolling 12 lbs of smallish low quality Lakers......they will probably end up mostly as fill for later batches. Hopefully a couple will make the grade, but yeah it's all about the quality of the rough.