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General Category => Contests => Topic started by: hummingbirdstones on August 04, 2018, 10:14:46 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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This month I am putting up a piece of low grade gold ore I recently found in the road on an old gold mine. It is cryptocrystaline quartz with purple specular hematite and pyrite.
The ore from this mine has a variety of minerals including sphalerite (sp) galena, chalcopyrite, barite, marcasite and several others.
I forgot to shoot the pre-form.
40x30x8mm
Has some crystaline qtz and pyrite showing in the cab. Also pits in the quartz. Nice colors I thought.
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My entry for the month. Hope you enjoy it.
Thanks
Mike
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Nice material in the running. Just sad that there are so few entries. I have not been around either as my productivity has gone way south and I concentrate on carving now more than anything else.
But, I might have something to enter this month that still conforms to the rules. I bought a (I think serpentine) cab in China last month. Was badly sharpen and drilled to wear, so I started carving one side. If that qualifies, I would like to enter "RISING" here.
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I was moving thing around in the shop. I call it cleaning and found this piece of sunrise jasper
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Preform
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Finished cab
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Very intense material Jhon.
Surprising how strong the white lines contrast in the polished piece.
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My entry, from the material I just collected in Montana.
Montana Agate - slab
Post trim saw
Preform
Post shaping on the grinding wheel
Final cab showing polish
Best photo of cab
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Final cab showing polish
Final cab, best photo.
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Lovely patterns in this montana.
Always like the look of them....
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Nice! I'm a fan of Montana agate.
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Here's my entry for the month. I'm not sure of the material, it was in a huge pile of slabs at a show a couple weeks ago, and I picked it up for a buck. Zebra agate?? Is there such a thing? Anyway, I was feeling creative tonight and here's what I ended up with.
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I think we got a winner here with the "Zebra Agate".
Nicely worked, and personally; like the colour scheme and shape the best thus far.
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This is from a Richardsons rock ranch thunder egg I dug this spring, a nice surprise !
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Great entries, my entry has been a few months in the making, not even sure if its eligible, I would rate this chain in the top 3 most difficult I have carved.
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Beautiful work there as always. Very nice.
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Thanks Steve, I pushed the boundaries carving this in rhodonite as its not as tough as jade the preferred gem for chains, challenging carving,
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That is one crazy beautiful chain, but I'm not so sure it's a "cab." I think you easily get the prize for best project this summer and probably all year! It really is spectacular.
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The zebra and Richardon's ranch cabs are awesome! I was going to try to enter something today, but maybe I'll do it next week. I'm too intimidated. There are so many great entries now.
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Just enter it’s great fun, I think I have won the contest one time, there is some one that always come up with a more interesting cab. If you don’t get out and run in the race you will never win. All the entry’s are all beautiful to me it’s hard to pick one