Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Phishisgroovin]

So, today i get to a point of shaping a fire agate on my old lortone LUX6, i stop and go over to my little cuttoff saw, and cut this big double hump cab off the bottom.

What i saw UNDER that big second rate rock (that i ended up ruining anyway) was this!!

I found ORION!!
I just have to figure out how to hide that ugly sandstone wedge.

[Asianfire]

A drop?
If it wouldn't be so small, the last picture looks like there in an animal looking over its shoulders. :)

[Phishisgroovin]

i have to get rid of the ugly part somehow.
Maybe insert something in there, maybe just make it smaller cutting away the points, dont know.

There is matrix (host rock) going inward to the center of the back so its going to be risky if i remove all of it. there will be a big ugly void in the back.

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Might think about leaving some of it in the back. Flat back with some matrix that won't be seen when set in a piece of jewelry isn't bad. Even a little bit in the girdle of a bezel set stone won't detract from the finished appearance.

[Phishisgroovin]

i trimmed it down a little the other day, there is bluish agate i cannot remove on my lapidary unit, getting too close to removing color so i am leaving it as is, hoping it comes off with more precise grinding with the polishing bits, well atleast thin out a little more.

Should finish the stone this weekend possibly.

[GoodEarth]

planning to cover it with silver in the setting would be my vote. You could get fancy with a free-form setting and no one will ever know that blemish exists.

[Phishisgroovin]

done to 1200 so far, have to go to bed.
all photos in this reply are of a dry rock.

[style]

Fire agate has so many different colors and variations that are all usually amazing to look at. Speaking of which Phish, what is your profile pic? That has a crazy pattern. Awesome. I may have to keep my eye out for some like it.

[hummingbirdstones]

Looking good!  A psychedelic galaxy in that cab.   

[Phishisgroovin]

this stone turned into a Orion (the cat) nebula pendant.
Orion is the cat at jerrys rocks & Gems in Kent here.
I gave the pendant to Joan, the half owner of the store.

[hummingbirdstones]

Cool.  Kind of like Men in Black, huh?   

[style]

 

[albertto]

Very nice result!
Another stone that I like to work.
I imagine it will have the same hardness quartz.
When the sizes run the risk of grinding too much and lose the bright area?

[irockhound]

Wow, great piece!  I love sagenite in Fire Agate!!!!  That is a lovely stone.  Congrats.

[Sandsave]

Nice! I need to get my hands on some!