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irockhound

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Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« on: November 22, 2017, 02:27:39 PM »
On one of my last trips to Texas before the ranch sold and was closed I stopped by a rock shop and he had some Arizona Wood.  He wanted a lot $20. per lb and I thought no way for wood.  I looked through the pieces and spotted this gem and saw the black patterns that showed on both ends of the roughly 6 to 7" piece and no obvious cross fractures so common in the wood.  I talked him down to $12. per lb for the 3 pieces I wanted.  1st pic is the rind I saw and the 2nd 2 pics are slices.  Really lucked out on this piece of wood, hard to come by it.  Last pic is unrelated but is a piece of the Golden Lace Plume Mary Frances Strong talked about in her early books.  I found the spot a few years ago going from her old maps.  This was a piece I decided to pull out and slice.  The material comes out in pieces so you have to orient the odd shapes to get the slice or 2 out of each.
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Re: Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2017, 06:30:09 PM »
Unusual and beautiful , thanks for enlightening us.
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Re: Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2017, 05:09:32 AM »
I like the AZ wood that has mostly reds and blacks like this.  Sometimes there is waste and or frustration due to porosity or fractures, but oh when you find a good slab or section for multiple slabs, you have a prize. The other piece is out of this world beautiful. 
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Re: Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2017, 07:41:37 AM »
I like That golden lace!
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Re: Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2017, 09:46:59 AM »
Nice find beautiful wood
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Re: Sharp Eye on the wood pile
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2017, 12:18:07 AM »
The largest piece of the lace actually had a lavender/purple agate with the plumes.  I'll try and find it in all the mess of me moving rocks around.
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