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General Category => Contests => Topic started by: hummingbirdstones on December 01, 2017, 06:55:25 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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I'll go first a Red Horn Coral I cut with the grain so to speak.
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I'm extending the cab contest through January because of the holidays. Folks are so busy this time of year, there's not much spare time to enjoy rock cutting.
After New Years, y'all better start cutting! :whip2:
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Good idea, does that mean I can enter another cab for January lol
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:laughing4:
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Heya Sandsave, what are the dimensions of that coral beauty?
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very unique, sandsave
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Just measured 1 5/16 (37mm) tall 1 1/8 (32 mm)
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My wife Margie recently finished this little Lightning ridge free form, our user here is for both of us so I think its fare game, this was all hand sanded up until the final polish on cerium oxide, she did not take a picture off the rough but I did manage to get one of the first roughing stage, hope thats ok.
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Lovely creations, both, the coral as well as the opal.
Two entries thus far, and I'm already at loss as to what to choose; I love the intense red colour, yet I do adore the colourplay in the opal too.
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oh the new load of fire agates i received.....im in heaven
saving this space for my images.
That Opal and coral are beautiful.
Ok. Started a new firee agate today
Slaughter mountain fire agate.
Final image 100% complete to 50,000 diamond
12.15 carat
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my contest entry image below.
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Ooh! Oooh! Ooooh!!! :Worthy: That's some mighty nice looking fire agate.
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Nice FA. Impossible for me to do. With my OCD, I would never be able to decide what layer to follow, and in the end would likely ruin it.
After months of idleness, I finally got the inspiration to start a proper project. So the first one, entirely freehand, with a flat back should suit this contest. Should have something to show, contribute here within a few days.
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i decided to get through the heavy orange layer and call it good.
What i ended up was your fault, i remember your posts a long time ago, colors i ended up with going through the polishing stages lol
I cant figure out following one single layer yet. more practice needed. (or higher quality rough lol!)
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:) :) Always needs practice, but you got good material, and the tools to work with.
Now the only thing that is missing is a bit of luck to get a super piece out of what you got.
I don't buy anything marked High-grade or in bulk (by weight), I'm way to cheap to spend that kind of money, and yet, from time to time I still manage something in the top grade. Only a small part of that is (in my case) practice, most of it is simply pure luck.
On the other hand, just about anyone can buy expensive stuff, and then produce super-cabs.
The challenge is turning average rough into something worthwhile or special.
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OK, here we go.
Started with two different materials, but one kept breaking till I had to abandon it.
The second is Slag from Bumblehole in England, that was gifted to me last year.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4753/39559192892_c024f4e3f9_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/23gHcPS)ppeleph 1 plu 2 (https://flic.kr/p/23gHcPS) by Kainzer Kurt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bchallenge/), on Flickr
With its flat back, I suppose, It just about counts as a sort of cab. Tusks will be fitted at a later date as I wanna catch up with two other pieces first, and I think the tusks would take it out of contention here.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4666/38879836374_89c060c124_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22eFjNs)ppbest (https://flic.kr/p/22eFjNs) by Kainzer Kurt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bchallenge/), on Flickr
Thanks for looking, remain with best regards, Kurt
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very nice piece
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Nice melecan!!! My sister could not say elephant so she called it melacan. Sorta became a standard word in my family!
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Come on people only a few more days left, lets get some more entries! :coffee1:
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I got home early yesterday and was looking through the pile of preforms that I have on the bench (that I am going to finish someday)
Laguna lace agate. The preform was already ground to shape, all I had to do was glue it to a stick
I figured that I just as well enter the contest being the month is almost over
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Here's my entry for the contest. I trimmed a piece from an Ocean Jasper slab that's been beckoning to me for a long time. The resulting freeform has a polished back and measures approx. 48 x 23 mm. at the widest points and is 7 mm. deep. It weighs 52.92 ct.
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Here's my entry for the contest. I trimmed a piece from an Ocean Jasper slab that's been beckoning to me for a long time. The resulting freeform has a polished back and measures approx. 48 x 23 mm. at the widest points and is 7 mm. deep. It weighs 52.92 ct.
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wow, what nice colors :)
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Note: I came back in this morning to substitute new photos for the last three because last night's photos were showing way too purple. The color is somewhere between a light blue and a lavenderish blue. This is light blue / slightly lavenderish blue chalcedony depending on the light. Reportedly from Turkey. It's remarkably flaw free with just a whisp or two of faint white you can see when I hold it up to the light. It's translucent enough to see when there is dark type below it but not quite transparent enough to make out any letters.
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Just finished this one... Sneaking in under the wire. I forgot to shoot the pre-form. :Bash:
This is the latest in my collector series of Trent's.
42x35 Tapers from 7mm on the wide end to 5.5mm on the narrow end. Double taper on the girdle and a very low dome polished on both sides.
I love this stuff.
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Congrats, Stonemon! That Trent was an outstanding entry and deserving winner! :WEEEE:
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Congratulations Stonemon that is a very nice piece and sure looks good at the top of the page
Dave
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Much obliged folks. Sometimes the material will carry the artist! I voted for Phish, his labor was very evident and I felt him very deserving. I love this group and one of these days will graduate past novice to beginner.
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congrats, beautiful stone :hello2: