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hello from Mexico
« on: December 29, 2020, 04:44:29 PM »
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I am new and so happy to be in this forum. My partner and I have been beachcombing and finding somany beautiful agates and some we can not idenitfy. We are hungry to learn about polishing. Thank you
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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2020, 01:31:34 AM »
Welcome Ruby!  I took the liberty of resizing the photo since it stretched in the original upload.
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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2020, 05:12:24 AM »
Starting with beach cobble makes the polishing process easier, faster, etc.  You don't say where you are collecting but the photo does show stones much like those on the beaches near Guaymas, Sonora.  Collect the right sizes and shapes and you can produce mighty pretty stuff in a few days with a vibratory tumbler. Then the process begins of trying to rescue bigger and more challenging specimens, and buying more equipment. Its all good.  Welcome. 
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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2020, 01:04:02 PM »
Thank you!
You nailed it, that is where we are collecting. Do you know if the green stones will polish? or what they are?
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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2020, 05:27:50 AM »
The green stones have been a source of frustration for me.  I have gotten a so-so polish but not one I'm particularly proud of.  I'm not sure I can even identify that green stone.  It could be rhyolite.  So much of the brown material there is rhyolite and much of it takes a great polish.  It often has patterns resembling mushroom rhyolite (overlapping contrasting patterns).  There are also some intriguing breccias with a milky cloudlike matrix. Polishing the small cobble is a vibe is one thing, slabbing some of the bigger stones and exposing the internal patterns is really productive.  Guaymas is the reason I'm interested in lapidary today. 
Let's see if I can show my early results. 
Here is an assortment of rhyolite slabs from same beach area. BTW my avatar is a rhyolite from there as well.

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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2020, 05:09:00 PM »
Welcome from Nevada.
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Re: hello from Mexico
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2020, 06:59:27 PM »
Welcome, and seeing some very attractive material.
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