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General Category => Contests => Topic started by: hummingbirdstones on June 02, 2017, 07:36:58 PM
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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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I was told that this slab is from a limb cast. Other than than I don't know what the opaque material is. I chose this stone because of its combination of opaque, translucent and transparent layers. The first photo is of the slab complete with the 40 x 30 mm cab outline and cut lines marked on the slab. The second and third photos are of the topside of the finished cab and a closeup of the top side, showing a face. The forth photo is of the back (flat) side of the full cab also showing several faces. The fifth photo shows the back side with some back lighting. The sixth photo shows a more intense back lighting helping to display the difference between the transparent and translucent layers surrounding the opaque matrix. The seventh and final photo is a close up of the back side of the cab with the intense back lighting. In this shot I see a Buddha up on the mountain looking down upon the much bigger being (or gigantic statue) gazing out on the horizon with robe covered outstretched arms. If I was doing this cab over again, I'd probably reverse the front and back sides, now that I've looked at the completed cab closely.
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I have haven't entered one of these in a while, So here's my submission. Nothing fancy, a piece of argillite i found in Maine. Check it out let my know your thoughts. Thanks mike.
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Interesting entries, both of them.
The Limb-cast provides a multitude of possibilities for pictures when you play a little with light.
Working on a Montana agate right now. Torn on the shape, so still re-cutting it, to get something resembling a balance.
Will join you folks in a few days.
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I've never seen banded argillite before. It polishes up really well!
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I found out cropping of it while atv'ing and got a few hundred pounds. I guess there is suppose to be some in a dam up there that they pulled out of a tunnel some time back.
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Been out of the loop for awhile between work and rockhound trips. Went to Grouse Creek,Utah the weekend before Memorial Day weekend, then Jackpot,Nv Memorial Day weekend, took four days to work then off to McDermit & Graveyard point for a week with JhonP, had a great time, Jhon is a blast to hang out with and a hard core rockhound!
This is a piece of Jasper from the Texas Springs area near Jackpot, had a interesting pattern, so here you go.
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WOW, Nice rich colours you got there sandsave......
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Ok, my turn.
Montana Agate
(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb340/kainzerkurt/ppmontana1_zpshsqgz2uf.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kainzerkurt/media/ppmontana1_zpshsqgz2uf.jpg.html)
Simple straight forward material, yet managed the need to reshape 4 times over and ended up with a Jellybean. :)
(http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb340/kainzerkurt/ppmontana%201_zpsnhygy3cq.jpg) (http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/kainzerkurt/media/ppmontana%201_zpsnhygy3cq.jpg.html)
Looking through, catching a bit of sunlight
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4235/35224443430_51f9283b54.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VEEtQb)July 2017 Montana Agate Kainzer Kurt (https://flic.kr/p/VEEtQb) by Kainzer Kurt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bchallenge/), on Flickr
And the pic for the voting
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4193/35450424512_aef93b49f1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/W1CG8J)Montana Agate (https://flic.kr/p/W1CG8J) by Kainzer Kurt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bchallenge/), on Flickr
Thanks for looking, Kurt
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Great Job folks!!! It's a contest now!!! I am supposed to go hounding with Jhon this year I hope Sandsave . Really want to go get some of that stuff he knows about!
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Not so much a Jelly Bean. More like a transparent mud-puppy (a salamander). Cool! ;-)
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Great cabs, let's see some more.
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It's been awhile since I posted anything in the contest.
Here is an Apache chrysocolla
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And the finished cab
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I never saw that kind of material b4 John, it's awesome.
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Nice jhon, orrum wants to go hounding with you, don't let him get you stuck in the river for 5 hours lol. I'm going to post the mess in the rockhounding section when I get a minute.
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Hey I am goin with Jhon, I got a bunch of sphere material to haul to him for sphere trsdes. One in particular is a oblong 50 pound hunk of Picasso Marble I got from the old claim on the RTH trip this year!
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Lol. We will
Have to see where orrum wants to go, if it's around tonapah there is not much water but pleanty of sand to get stuck in.
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Wow what a beautiful play of colors. Nice cab
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Hey Jhon I have a RZR 570 we will not I say will not get stuck!!# LOL
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thought I would try a red white and blue 4th of July theme
Afghan Lapis Lazuli
Russian Kacholong
South Africa Tabu Tabu Painted Valley Brecciate Red Jasper [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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got to figure out how to make pictures smaller
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Oh I love the patriotic cab!!!
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I hope it is not too late to submit my cabs as it is still not midnight Pacific time in the US! This is Amethyst pink lace agate from Mexico. Unfortunately, I made an insane number of extrmely rough preforms months ago and then my machine broke down and this was the first chance I had to actually grind, sand and polish them. This isn't perfect material, so you will note some flaws, but I am pretty happy with the large teardrop. I am still tinkering with hte other two.
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ileney - you're good. I'm MST myself.
RadiantRocksCT - I use FastStone Photo Resizer. It's free and easy to use. You can download it here if you like: http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
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Thanks hummingbirdstones. I'm actually (true confession) not in the Pacific region myself, just pointing out that it still isn't quite midnight somewhere in the US (LOL) and my husband just came back from California only a few hours ago, so that counts, doesn't it?
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Works for me. :glasses9: I figure we have to go by CA time to be fair and give those folks all the time possible to enter. :icon_sunny: