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Rock Art => Cabochons, Intarsias, Cameos => Topic started by: fossilman on January 22, 2017, 03:53:16 PM

Title: First time...
Post by: fossilman on January 22, 2017, 03:53:16 PM

I usually just hound and slab,than lose interest in the rock.. A few buddies kept pushing me to start cabbing some of the material I cut...
So I jumped on the band wagon and gave it a try-hooked,yuppers just like I thought...LOL
My first cab,a Montana moss agate,I hounded on the Yellowstone River,in Montana. Slabbed it,trimmed it and cabbed it....

Title: Re: First time...
Post by: Orrum on January 22, 2017, 03:58:33 PM

Looks great and that's s difficult material to work!

Title: Re: First time...
Post by: fossilman on January 22, 2017, 03:59:27 PM

Quote from: Orrum on January 22, 2017, 03:58:33 PM

Looks great and that's s difficult material to work!

Hey is this Mr. Bill???

Title: Re: First time...
Post by: Jhon P on January 22, 2017, 06:18:03 PM

beautiful!!!

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Post by: erichK on January 22, 2017, 06:26:44 PM

I love it!

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Post by: Ryaly2dogs on January 22, 2017, 09:43:31 PM

A nice grouping of inclusions; very pleasing to the eye.

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Post by: hummingbirdstones on January 23, 2017, 06:03:12 AM

You did a great job on your first cab.  Beautiful stone!   :headbang:

Title: Re: First time...
Post by: fossilman on January 23, 2017, 09:10:27 AM

Thanks all,just another addiction to this rock hounding thing!! LOL

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Post by: Sandsave on January 24, 2017, 04:05:36 AM

I've been up to the Yellowstone river several times collecting and I'm always amazed when I start cutting. I still have two buckets from our last trip 3 years ago. I'm working one right now with red in it. I'll post here when finished.
Moss agates are not easy to polish. Nice job!

Title: Re: First time...
Post by: Sandsave on January 24, 2017, 06:09:15 PM

Here's the finished cab, the ones with red dendrites are hard to come by, I've been lucky enough to collect a few.
This one has a small inclusion on the left side of the center dendrite, I left it so I wouldn't lose the pattern. Down on the bottom you can the white remnants of the vug same thing.
But it looks just find in my mossy collection!!!