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woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Coprolite Auction Fundraiser for Pro Boards (sold) Mar 15, 2021 17:19:03 GMT -5 RWA3006 and miket like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 15, 2021 17:19:03 GMT -5 90

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Saturday Pet Wood! Mar 13, 2021 22:36:40 GMT -5 RWA3006, 1dave, and 1 more like this

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Mar 13, 2021 20:48:41 GMT -5 Brian said:

Thanks for posting those, woodman ! I'm glad it was a video because I was not expecting that level of polish on that video you reposted. My socks have officially been blown off by that one. (cheering)

A good sunny day and a video will really show off a good polish job. Hard to show with a still photo!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Saturday Pet Wood! Mar 13, 2021 16:14:33 GMT -5 Fossilman, RWA3006, and 7 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 13, 2021 16:14:33 GMT -5 Another repeat! Stinking water oAk slab with Hubbard basin, Saddle Mountain, and Ble Forest pieces.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Saturday Pet Wood! Mar 13, 2021 16:09:46 GMT -5 Fossilman, RWA3006, and 8 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 13, 2021 16:09:46 GMT -5 This a repeat but we have a lot of new members, so here is a small slab of Arizona Petrified wood!

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Thunderegg Thursdays Mar 11, 2021 12:39:28 GMT -5 1dave, hummingbirdstones, and 1 more like this

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Mar 11, 2021 12:28:06 GMT -5 Fossilman said:

I have a barrel full of old Richardson Ranch "Blue Bed" eggs, I need to start grabbing a few and cutting... Probably full of cob webs and dust by now...
Great photos of your cuts everybody! Thumbs up

When are you not going to be home? always fun to cut eggs!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Thunderegg Thursdays Mar 11, 2021 12:24:15 GMT -5 1dave likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 11, 2021 12:24:15 GMT -5 Mar 11, 2021 12:08:13 GMT -5 jasoninsd said: These are some Succor Creek Thundereggs I slabbed earlier this week. To me they look like Richardsons!

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Thunderegg Thursdays Mar 11, 2021 11:24:16 GMT -5 Fossilman, RWA3006, and 7 more like this

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one more!

This is a little one about 1 1/2" across. I had cut it and threw it on my wash table and forgot about it. It got lost in all the rocks!! Found it when I cleaned off the table a few weeks ago and decided it needed to be polished. For the most part, I haven't seen much good out of the small ones.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Thunderegg Thursdays Mar 11, 2021 11:16:11 GMT -5 Fossilman, RWA3006, and 8 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 11, 2021 11:16:11 GMT -5 Here it is Thursday already! Here is a couple of Richardson's ranch

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	COPROLITE Mar 9, 2021 10:29:27 GMT -5 RWA3006, RickB, and 4 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Mar 9, 2021 10:29:27 GMT -5 One that I got from Randy, in the process of getting it polished!

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Saturday Pet Wood! Mar 7, 2021 22:10:37 GMT -5 Fossilman and 1dave like this

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Mar 7, 2021 18:47:51 GMT -5 stephan said:

Beautiful. Bleaching by treating it with something, or just by exposure to light and air?

In this case it just got left out in the sun for a few years and forgot about! Household bleach will work on some materials also.

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Saturday Pet Wood! Mar 7, 2021 10:52:54 GMT -5 1dave and jasoninsd like this

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Mar 7, 2021 10:32:03 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

Mar 7, 2021 10:28:55 GMT -5 woodman said:

That's a nice sized piece. I love the patterns in that one...and looks to be a "split" trunk. (Not the correct vernacular there...but you know what I mean! LOL)

If you have ever dug up a tree, you would have seen sections of roots like this. If I was younger I would go back and dig some more of it out. We left some of it in the hole!

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Mar 7, 2021 2:37:16 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

Mar 6, 2021 16:27:10 GMT -5 woodman said:

This nice chunk of Elm Roots from the Stinking Water mountaians has been sitting out by my shop for a number of years getting bleached out. It was rather dark when cut! Looks like it is time to get back to work on it and do some polishing!

Man oh man that's gorgeous! What's the approximate size of this beauty?

Iforgot to measure it but I would say it is 10 inches or across the face and probably 6 inches tall.

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Thunderegg Thursdays Mar 6, 2021 22:25:08 GMT -5 1dave, stephan, and 3 more like this

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Mar 5, 2021 8:12:53 GMT -5 fernwood said:

Day late due to my new computer dieing.
Received from woodman . I love this T-egg/geode.
The orange area reminds me of amber.

I have not added any photo editing software to my new computer yet, so this is a bad photo.

Here is the other half of your egg!

Last Edit: Mar 6, 2021 22:26:10 GMT -5 by woodman

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This nice chunk of Elm Roots from the Stinking Water mountaians has been sitting out by my shop for a number of years getting bleached out. It was rather dark when cut! Looks like it is time to get back to work on it and do some polishing!

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Thunderegg Thursdays Feb 25, 2021 21:57:14 GMT -5 RWA3006, RickB, and 6 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Feb 25, 2021 21:57:14 GMT -5 OK, it is Thursday!! Three Richardson's and two from Succor creek

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Feb 23, 2021 11:44:18 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

Feb 23, 2021 11:10:28 GMT -5 Brian said:

The only problem I can think of is the heat build up in the box. A few vent holes top and bottom should help that.

There are a couple alternatives for the front. First, you could square the edges of the slab to reduce the complexity of the shape. Second, you could simply cut a piece of wood rather than plexiglass to hold and frame the slab. My concern with the plexiglass is that it may be more translucent than your slab, making the slab have a glowing halo that would make it more difficult to see the patterns in the slab. That is assuming I am envisioning your design properly, which I may not be.

You are envisioning it exactly. You're dead-on with the plexi-glass. It would take away from the illumination of the slab. So I'd need to make that non-opaque.

I don't really want to lose the complexity of the slab. I think that adds to it. If I traced the shape, routed the general shape so there's a "lip" to keep it in the opening, it could be held in place on that lip with an epoxy or glue of some kind...I would think cyanoacrylate would work, depending on the heat from the light source...

Use LED lights.

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Winter got us! Feb 16, 2021 13:06:50 GMT -5 jasoninsd likes this

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Feb 15, 2021 23:07:33 GMT -5 quartz said:

I live 35-40 miles south of woodman , we got 1 1/2" of snow over 1/2" of ice. I've got enough 2-3" and smaller stuff down to keep my chipper busy for about half a day. Big piece of cedar tree came down on the road a little west of here.

Lost a few limbs off of a Doug fir but we escaped the ice storm that you tshose east of you got. Still a lot of people without power.

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Winter got us! Feb 14, 2021 19:24:14 GMT -5 jasoninsd likes this

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Feb 14, 2021 19:20:39 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

You guys sure did. Looks like you've got a lot of precipitation in the forecast for the next 10 days as well. It's Oregon though...of course there's precip in the forecast. I hope the white stuff doesn't stay around too long for you guys.

A lot of freezing rain in the area south of us and a lot of down power lines. So far we have not had the ice storm but will find out my morning what is going to happen.

woodman driving up their electric bill If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not know enough about it. Member since December 2014 Posts: 2,710	Winter got us! Feb 14, 2021 19:15:20 GMT -5 Fossilman, Pat, and 5 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woodman on Feb 14, 2021 19:15:20 GMT -5 Thought we were going to escape this year but not to be!

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Arizona Wood Feb 9, 2021 10:07:25 GMT -5 jasoninsd likes this

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Feb 8, 2021 23:14:08 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

I don't always show my wife everything on here...only the truly amazing things I see...I showed her what you've been doing here Bob. Her jaw dropped as far as mine did the first time I saw it. What you've been able to do with this behemoth is just flat out stunning.

Thanks, This stuff is hard to lap and sand, but it really take a good polish. better in person than the video taken on an overcast day.