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[edgarscale]

 Pietersite is a gorgeous material.  i especially love the blues.  lucky you..

[ToTheSummit]

I felt obligated to get an entry in this month so here is mine.

Dead Camel jasper in a teardrop shape.  Wife helped me search through rough for some small chunks that showed signs of blue (and even have some with green, although not in this piece)

Slab and preform are one and the same.  Just started shaping the slab and let it work itself into a pleasant freeform.


Finished stone is about 3 inches long.  Has a fracture along the dark red area in the lower left but seems to be solid.

[Enchantra]

NICE!   

[Asianfire]

Love the look on that jasper.
Looks like fab material to work with.

[gemfeller]

I haven't done much cutting this month due to an aching back but when I saw the calendar today I decided to get an entry in at the last minute.  This is another riff on Dead Camel Jasper.  Some has a strong similarity to original Owyhee and I liked the pattern on the end of this slab. Large patterns require large cabs and this one ended up at about 29.5 x 52 x 5 mm deep.

Slab

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Cut-Off/Preform

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Finished Cab

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[irockhound]

Funny, the last thing I think I would envision with a dead camel is something beautiful but both of your cabs are fabulous!

[gemfeller]

irockhound, the name comes from the Dead Camel mountain range in western Nevada.  I think it's a terrible name for the jasper too but it's mined near there.  The story goes that 75 camels were imported by Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, in 1855 to help work the mines in NV and AZ.  They were later turned loose to survive as best they could.  The mountains were given that name when a prospecting party found one of them dead there in 1891.

[Orrum]

They were used as pack animals, they can carry way more weight than a horse, use less water, stay fat off desert brush. Unfortunately their feet could not hold up to travel over the sharp hard rocks.

[hummingbirdstones]

I'll get the voting thread up as soon as I can.  I've been stupid busy this week.