Can we give it one more month?

I'm sad I missed the post last month, Life has been chaotic of late or I'd have added to the mix. 

Very nice cabs.  Love the variety and shapes.  I was wondering on the first image with the peach colored agates I see some veil fractures, is that original in the material or is it sensitive to heat in the polishing process?  Some wonderful stones!

Both are great and I agree with the quality of that rhodonite, some seriously good material!  I didn't comment when I had your potch fish open but I always love your style and carving quality!

Love cutting the Agatized Coral.  A beauty.

Thanks. Yes its Imperial rhodonite from my region of Tamworth Australia. Nice fine grain deep pink. Very hard to find now. I have carved a deeper red colour in a chain Both from a deposit called Danglemah, the choice Rhodonite from this deposit is regarding as some of the best ever found.

Is that rhodonite? Looks very gemmy, almost like rhodochrosite. And the polish on the nephrite is really great!

A spiral corkscrew not finished and a jade ring I helped my grandson make from Yukon jade.

Agreed, not much of a contest with only two entries. A decade or two ago, people were maintaining and contributing to forums like this one to connect with other humans who shared same interests. Somewhere along the way, a takeover happened - people now volunteer their knowledge and work to the algorithms and corporations, and the promise of human connection is becoming dubious at best when the main drivers are monetization, user data collection, and marketing. Even this forum, with all its wealth of knowledge, is publicly accessible for algorithms to scrape, remix, and serve back as a product, to train AI agents on.

I am fortunate to have a local lapidary club here in Edmonton, with several tens of active members still meeting regularly, operating a shop, running auctions, and sharing the knowhow.

Only 2 entries. A bit sad. Very obvious why. The lapidary groups on Facebook and other social media pages have driven forums like this to near extinction. Not just this one but one I use at home in Australia. And the carving path forum. This one and more so the previous older forum were great places.