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Post by HankRocks on Sept 2, 2020 7:25:05 GMT -5
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Post by orrum on Sept 2, 2020 9:07:01 GMT -5
Awesome all but the Snowman rocks!!!
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Post by jasoninsd on Sept 2, 2020 19:07:41 GMT -5
Hank, those are all great cabs! I particularly like the Picture Jasper, the Mexican Lace (my favorite agate!), the Snowman (just awesome!), and the Malachite! I have a pool cue that has a tremendous amount of Malachite as inlays. It's one of the cues I won't trade/sell!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Sept 2, 2020 22:31:24 GMT -5
Geez Louise, Hank, that plume is killer!
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Post by knave on Sept 2, 2020 22:36:48 GMT -5
The Malachite is my favorite. But they are all well done.
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Post by HankRocks on Sept 3, 2020 3:46:10 GMT -5
Geez Louise, Hank, that plume is killer! I sort of forgot it was in the tumble batch, maybe I should have entered it into the Aug contest. I am not much of a contest guy, just having fun making them and see how they come out. Slabbed several nice pieces of this off of a vein rock from Walker. In my limited experience that's a bit odd as most of the plume agate there is in the form of the flatter biscuits that are a bit of a pain to cut and they tend towards being pitted. This was weathered out, but it was a solid piece and the plumes ran the length and depth of the vein with not much sign of any soft areas. Finding the main run of the vein would have been one of those moments.
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Post by HankRocks on Sept 3, 2020 3:56:03 GMT -5
The Malachite is my favorite. But they are all well done. Thanks. Of course I don't publish the failures!! They are usually less than I expect with hidden, or tumble action produced fractures and soft spots that changes the shape. I am getting better at recognizing some of these issues before hand when I am laying out and cutting/grinding the pieces. The Malachite did not quite take the polish that most of the other pieces had. It was just a tad dull. I tried to cut around the fractures in the original slabs and made 5 pendant stones, 2 of them ended up with fractures, but did not break apart. I did test one of the fractured ones and it polished up nicely with felt on the Expando Drum.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Sept 3, 2020 8:57:46 GMT -5
Show stoppers Hank. Absolute beauties.
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Post by miket on Sept 3, 2020 9:52:12 GMT -5
Love them all, great work, sir!
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kyoti
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Post by kyoti on Sept 4, 2020 17:41:24 GMT -5
Those are nice looking pendants Hank. Could the grey and white unknown be a turritella? It looks sort of organic.
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Post by stephan on Sept 7, 2020 22:34:09 GMT -5
Those are nice looking pendants Hank. Could the grey and white unknown be a turritella? It looks sort of organic. Not Turitella, but likely similar to Petoskey stone (coral), but harder. Or maybe a bird’s eye rhyolite (less likely).
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Post by knave on Sept 8, 2020 2:36:48 GMT -5
Red and black plume looks so rich. Love it.
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Post by Mel on Sept 11, 2020 15:53:31 GMT -5
The first one is my favourite! I love those colours. "Parrot Wing" sounds like a perfect name for it.
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Post by TheRock on Sept 30, 2020 8:53:17 GMT -5
Nice looking Cabs ther Hank "YOU ROCK" no pun Intended
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