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Rock Art => Cabochons, Intarsias, Cameos => Topic started by: Gergis on August 30, 2014, 10:46:45 AM

Title: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Gergis on August 30, 2014, 10:46:45 AM

after a little self debate on what was going to go in first i went with some tigers eye..second was some really neato local olympic poppy jasper..just a start but still learning the new genie, pieces in progress.  :hello2:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Phishisgroovin on August 30, 2014, 11:04:48 AM

Very nice, Tiger eye is one of my very favorites.
 :headbang:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: iceopals on August 30, 2014, 11:51:53 AM

Love them, the tiger eye especially!   Although I do hate cutting that stuff.   :toothy10:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: hummingbirdstones on August 30, 2014, 12:19:05 PM

Nice!  You are doing your new Genie huge justice!   :thumbsup:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Gergis on August 30, 2014, 03:41:21 PM

third piece today..i originally did a couple preforms of a serpentine i found a couple months back at franks place and the first pendant i tried making was heavily fractured and it cracked mid job so i knew this piece would blow up too so i dropped it on the concrete and kept the top that still had the drill hole to salvage that piece onto something...and here ya go..still needs sone work but will make a few more for a necklace or something nice :-)

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Gergis on August 30, 2014, 03:42:18 PM

also thanks for the compliments guys!  :occasion14:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: LithicStrings on August 30, 2014, 04:49:09 PM

Nice save!

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: iceopals on August 30, 2014, 06:28:57 PM

Opals break if you drop them on bricks as well.   Beware... :sad5:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: hummingbirdstones on August 30, 2014, 07:52:32 PM

Or Concrete.  Ask me how I know ...  :confused5:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: iceopals on August 31, 2014, 07:30:27 AM

Ha!   I knew we had lots in common!   :icon_jokercolor:

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: vitzitziltecpatl on August 31, 2014, 08:21:54 AM

Tile floors will also make a multi-stone "set" of an opal. Very quick process. Far from painless.

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Gergis on August 31, 2014, 08:46:57 AM

yeah i swear the first opal cab i made was really a mexican jumping bean cause i just could NOT keep in in my hands when i would take it outside to look in natural light to look for flaws..must of dropped it twenty times i swear..only one chip but i def learned my lesson!!

Title: Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
Post by: Itsandbits on August 31, 2014, 08:52:39 AM

Nice stones; the serpentine with the hole in the middle will be a nice focal bead; I'd much rather they break before I start shaping than after an hours work... there is a sound that solid stones have that a fractured one doesn't.