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Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« on: February 01, 2017, 06:41:15 AM »
Rules:
1) Cab must be made by you.
2) Cab must be made within the time period of this contest.  Contest begins on the first of the month and ends on 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the month.  NO pulling old cabs from your storage baskets!
3) As long as the basic shape is considered a cab it's golden.  You can enter intarsias and carved top cabs such as cameos etc.  After all, this is the OUTRAGEOUS cab contest!  We love free form cabs!  Pull out the stops and give us the best you have!
4) One entry per person please!
5) Please show photos of your slabs and preforms if you can so we can see your thought process and how you did things.
6) No finished jewelry pieces.  Just the cab.
7) Cab sets are OK.
8) This is only for bragging rights and your cabochon photo posted up top in the forums unless someone posts a lapidary related prize and wants to ship it to the winner of the contest.

Let the games begin!!!   :toothy10:
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2017, 07:31:11 PM »
A sphere to the winner. A piece of Onyx I traded for with Jhon, 2 1/2" it's a little porous but that's expected. Still eye candy!
Good luck everyone.
I hate to change this, but I will only pay shipping to the winner inside the USA, I had to ship some custom electrical devises over seas last week, they weighed 14 lbs. cost over $100 in shipping.
Sorry to the members outside the USA. I will ship overseas if the winner wants to pay shipping.
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2017, 05:48:15 AM »
Thank you for the fab sponsorship Sandsave.

Looks like, I'm in first this month.
Still a work in progress as there is some finetuning to b done (both: cab as well as sharpness of picture)
No rough picture, but got one after cleaning up.
Small little bugger 10x8mm to be used as inset into a larger cab-project. Mexican origin.
Stage

As of today


Thanks for looking, Kurt
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2017, 05:44:39 PM »
Picasso heart, this is for my wife for Valentine's Day. I'll let her know my heart wasn't that dark 40 years ago when we married or maybe I shouldn't LOL!!!!
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2017, 07:08:23 AM »
Hi All

Cool enteries

I have a question. Would a total recut of a broken stone be a valid entry? I am currently recutting this.

Bless
Shawn

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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2017, 08:17:35 AM »
Now I am bumned

Not looking good

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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2017, 08:19:45 AM »
Oh no!  So sorry, Back.  It's happened to me and I'm sure a bunch of folks and every time, it still sucks.   :sad5:
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2017, 09:07:12 AM »
Yea I should of left it alone. I have had it so long and now have lost so much of the blue but I am not giving up the biggest piece is redopped and ready for polish :Bash:

Bless
Shawn
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2017, 10:20:16 AM »
I ran into this one yesterday... I got 8 more slabs off of the same piece, some great looking cabs coming!
Wild horse Owyhee I picked up last spring.
52mm round. It's a big one.
Bill
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2017, 10:21:29 AM »
Nice, I like Wild Horse, great name for a claim!
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2017, 02:28:34 PM »
Love the intensity of the colours in the Picasso.
The Wild Horse cab looks even more interesting upsidedown with that 3D effect.
Lets see what comes out of your cab Shawn. A shame when things break apart after all the effort. 
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2017, 04:15:30 PM »
This started out as a much larger piece of Marlborough Australia rough. This was from my Dad's 40 year old collection. As I started grinding, I did find some cloudiness and felt the best shape I could get, after cutting out the flaws, was a tall triangle. I wanted a modern shape and will either set it as a ring or if a pendant then will set it with with a pink tourmaline, sapphire or garnet  brilliant and long, tall rectangle in lapis or other contrasting bright colors. I think this is a high quality stone.
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2017, 01:17:43 PM »
Hi all

The pic below shows something that I wanted to save after all the breakage. It shows a plate of blue. I do think this stone is related to labrderite.

It stills needs work but I have over a week to finish it.

Bless
Shawn
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2017, 10:00:52 AM »
Hi all

I have 2 more pic's. I am not happy with either of them. I am sure that you agree my pic's skills are very bad. I hate it that I cant show what I see. I will try to get a "good" pic.

I do think that this will be my last entry until I learn to take better pics

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Shawn
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Re: Outrageous Cab Contest February 2017
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2017, 12:54:49 PM »
Shawn,

Your photos aren't that bad.  Just crop them to get rid of the background stuff so you can see the stone better.

Here's a cropped version:





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