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Let's Rock => Rough and Slabs => Topic started by: irockhound on November 22, 2017, 02:27:39 PM
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On one of my last trips to Texas before the ranch sold and was closed I stopped by a rock shop and he had some Arizona Wood. He wanted a lot $20. per lb and I thought no way for wood. I looked through the pieces and spotted this gem and saw the black patterns that showed on both ends of the roughly 6 to 7" piece and no obvious cross fractures so common in the wood. I talked him down to $12. per lb for the 3 pieces I wanted. 1st pic is the rind I saw and the 2nd 2 pics are slices. Really lucked out on this piece of wood, hard to come by it. Last pic is unrelated but is a piece of the Golden Lace Plume Mary Frances Strong talked about in her early books. I found the spot a few years ago going from her old maps. This was a piece I decided to pull out and slice. The material comes out in pieces so you have to orient the odd shapes to get the slice or 2 out of each.
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Unusual and beautiful , thanks for enlightening us.
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I like the AZ wood that has mostly reds and blacks like this. Sometimes there is waste and or frustration due to porosity or fractures, but oh when you find a good slab or section for multiple slabs, you have a prize. The other piece is out of this world beautiful.
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I like That golden lace!
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Nice find beautiful wood
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The largest piece of the lace actually had a lavender/purple agate with the plumes. I'll try and find it in all the mess of me moving rocks around.