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some serious sphere making material there.

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Very nice complex work Michael. Did you grind into the bolsters to get it all flush? Fantastic looking knives, was it a commission for the maker?

David

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really sweet

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very cool, thanks for posting

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Rock Hounding Trips, Tips, and Pics / Re: Blue shale roadside stop
« on: March 13, 2016, 08:53:49 PM »
I've not found fossils in that spot, but there are fragments around the corner in a shale hill, and lots and lots of fossils within a mile radius. I'll post pictures when I get to some of those spots again. There's calcite everywhere, often mixed with quartz. I have a piece of green quartz from this hill that I found as a kid (it's back in the Washington hoard). It was a hand-sized chunk of solid dark green. Directly across the road and creek is a volcanic neck that upthrust through the shale. I'll get pictures of it soon; kids climbing in the shale there have talked about lavender and green quartz and calcite, (but they also got stuck and had to be rescued; I haven't retraced their steps yet.) This particular hill is spotted with big basalt chunks but they arrived via a botched dynamite operation back in the 80s and are not exactly indicative of this hill's geology. :) I've vinegar'd some rock from here before, mostly just to get the seepwater residue off it, but haven't used it for mineral identification before. I'll look into that, thanks for the tip!

Sounds like a great area for a fossick. Love mixed metamorphic/igneous ground.

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yup looks like a jasper of some kind.

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6-7mm is a good starting point for cabs. I usually cut a range of thicknesses when slabbing as I do a whole range of items from 1mm thick guitar picks to 15mm thick puffy double sided hearts and everything in between.

David

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Lots of fun looking material there Kurt. Enjoy

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Our Place / Re: Drill Bits
« on: March 01, 2016, 01:41:18 AM »
I have used ball heads, solid cores and hollow core drills, all seem to work, some work better with one stone or another. I always use a ball head to create a divit to centre the drill in. I have tried 1mm to start then going up a mm each time to enlarge hole and also gone straight to say 4mm, I am not convinced one approach is better then the other. I hear the tripple ripple drill are good but have not tried them. Have fun experimenting.

David

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Carving Tips, Tricks and Pics / Re: Done and done update Feb 16
« on: February 17, 2016, 10:15:27 PM »
prolific as always Kurt

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interesting, looks like fluorite rich rock is the best description. Fluorite with nephrite/lizzardite is an unlikely combination.

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Mineral Specimens / Re: Need a ID
« on: February 17, 2016, 10:07:32 PM »
That is quite a stash of jade

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nice looking material

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Very nice, love the contrast. I have one on the drawing board too. They are fun.

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Introductions / Re: Hello from the UK
« on: January 27, 2016, 02:01:36 AM »
Welcome from Sydney.

David

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