Applying to join this forum, you HAVE to activate your membership in YOUR email in the notice you recieve after completing application process. No activation on your part, no membership.

Lapidaryforum.net

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome new members & old from the Lapidary/Gemstone Community Forum. Please join up. You will be approved after spam check & you must manually activate your acct with the link in your email

Congratulations to Bobby1 and his Brazilian Agate Cab!

www.lapidaryforum.net

Another cabochon contest coming soon!

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Washington jade pendant  (Read 1973 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

lithicbeads

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3214
Washington jade pendant
« on: July 16, 2017, 07:52:27 PM »
This is from a very nice cobble I found a few miles from my house. I cut it in a standard manner up to and including the 220 wet sand. As it was showing very bad undercutting I took it out to the dry sanding shed and polished it dry on diamond sanding wheels up to 8,000 grit. 16,000 grit dulled the superb polish so I went back and finished it on the 8,000 grit wheel dry. Losing some finish is common when going to the high  diamond grits when used dry.A hugely problematic stone finished in just a few minutes dry sanding. 70 mm long , 4 mm hole.
Logged

LithicStrings

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 125
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2017, 10:49:19 AM »
Beautiful - nice cut for a very nice piece of Washington jade
Logged

irockhound

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1468
    • RockhoundingUSA
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2017, 12:06:21 PM »
What a great balance of colors.  It just makes you feel alive.  Wonderful pendant.
Logged

Redrummd

  • Global Moderator
  • Sr. Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 383
    • Art In Stone
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2017, 04:58:51 PM »
Frank,

really nice color and polish for a Washington Jade cobble!  Wow.....
Logged

kent

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 320
    • Fine Woodwork and Lapidary
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2017, 07:05:24 PM »
I like how you just let the stone talk. Beautiful piece Frank....
Logged

rockherder

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 61
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2017, 09:55:18 AM »
I really like this stone.
The white band running through it and the almost square darker green area in the bottom.
It looks like you managed to get it polished very nicely.
Well done.  :hello2:
Logged
-Doug in El Dorado Hills, CA

Sandsave

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1041
Re: Washington jade pendant
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2017, 06:26:47 PM »
Wow I like that one.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.089 seconds with 39 queries.