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General Category => Contests => Topic started by: hummingbirdstones on February 01, 2017, 06:41:15 AM
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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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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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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
(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb340/kainzerkurt/ppclean%20up_zpsl5afka0x.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kainzerkurt/media/ppclean%20up_zpsl5afka0x.jpg.html)
As of today
(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb340/kainzerkurt/ppdouble_zpsictgsg3e.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kainzerkurt/media/ppdouble_zpsictgsg3e.jpg.html)
Thanks for looking, Kurt
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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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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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Now I am bumned
Not looking good
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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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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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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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Nice, I like Wild Horse, great name for a claim!
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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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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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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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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
Bless
Shawn
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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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Here's a heart cab I did for my girlfriend's daughter for Valentines Day. I forgot to take any pictures while I was making it though :Bash:
It is red jasper that I collected in Wyoming last summer. I'm trying to improve my photography skills as well!
Cheers!
John
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Love the strong colour, and very nice workmanship too.
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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
Bless
Shawn
I can see it. I think it's beautiful.
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I like that red hart!!!
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Another heart, unknown agate material, unfortunately full of vugs but still very nice color for a valentine. Any id help or suggestions regarding vugs welcome! Thanks for looking.
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Hi All
I know that the contest is over. I have been working real hard on my pic skills so this is a test
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Better. Did you crop you photos? You just need to make sure your picture is really focused. If you're taking the picture too close to the stone, it may not be in good focus. Try taking it a little farther away and then crop the large sized picture down. The stone in your picture will be larger and more in focus that way.
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A tip is that if you are shooting with a camera that has a "macro" mode it has notoriously short depth of field meaning that the "in focus" zone on a cab taken at an angle can be as small as a 1/4" in focus and either side of that will be out of focus. If shooting macro shoot straight down onto the top of you cab to cure this. Otherwise do as Hummingbird stones said and shoot farther away and crop, either of these will give you an enhanced picture.
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Hi All
Thanks for the input. I finally figured out that the photo editing program I was learning slipped in an update that renamed things :Bash: Now I have to save to 2 files The new one that I just found is "save for web" :dontknow: Both pics above were cropped and resized.
Distance
Yea I need to figure that out. I am using the "close up" function on my camera. The manual for my camera is on line only and over 120 pages. Looks like I got more work to do.
Thanks for your replies
I am motivated again to look for something to cut for the next contest. Weather is warming up so soon I can use my saw :cool: I dont have much in house that I can work with on a trim saw. I do have some rough from some very cool members that I cant wait to slab :thumbsup:
Thanks again
Bless
Shawn
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I suggest taking your camera off of close up mode and just take regular pictures. Ignore the save for web photo. Use the normal photo and in your editing program, crop the photo. Then, in your editing program resize your cropped picture to around 800 x 600 pixels. The web photo will most likely be saved with lower pixels, so if you crop it it will be more degraded and fuzzy.
When you crop the regular picture it will decrease the size of photo and resizing will do the same thing, with no degradation of the picture quality.
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Woman with a torch... your material is confetti agate from Chihuahua Mexico. It's a classic lapidary material related to bird of paradise agate (some intergrades exist). It's a beautiful material - the little drusy vugs add sparkle if you're not worried about some character in your cabs. One of my favorites!
-Jeremy
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Talusman - Thank you!!!
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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
Looks like Larvikite to me.....