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[irockhound]

I was working on an intarsia for my sister's birthday and a couple other lapidary projects.  I did have time to start 2 cabs.  1st broke on a hidden fracture (Superior agate) and this Bouquet from the Singleton Ranch.  This was going to just be an oval around the central plumes but as I sat in front on the grinder this shape came to mind and looked like it would work.

[lithicbeads]

Beautiful , where is the rough from?

[irockhound]

Singleton Ranch is a ranch that is about 18 miles South of Marfa in West Texas.  Ranch sold this last year and is now divided into 3 parts each absorbed by neighboring ranches that don't allow collecting.  So sad, but I did collect there a lot, I'll never run out of material for sure and whoever comes to my house when I kick will be happy indeed!

[Opal Mike]

That’s a nice cut Steve. Beautiful stone!

I cut my first Willow Creek Jasper today. I bought a couple of slabs off Etsy a while back...Not as interesting as Steve’s piece, but I like the soft colours and patters...and I really like the white parts..nice clean look to it.

Cheers,
Mike

[Opal Mike]

Try that again.

[irockhound]

I love the shape Mike, I know that the image is stretched but good shape either way.  Willow creek is fun stuff.  I enjoy some of the darker patterns and it is always a guess what it is going to be inside the rough. 

It is almost like your images are just stretching to fill a pre-determined size.

[Felicia]

Nice jasper, and oh, those delicate little plumes.

[Opal Mike]

Just want to get to the bottom of my stretched images. I take them on my iPhone then email them to my iPad. I have been emailing the image size as medium. This time I tried small...let’s see.

Techno whiz Mike ain’t!

[Opal Mike]

Nope..still stretched..just smaller. Any ideas? I have posted a lot successfully before, just the odd one comes out super stretched as in wide.

[hummingbirdstones]

irockhound - when you do your doublets, what grit do you grind the two pieces to before you epoxy them?  That Bouquet is awesome!

Mike - I'm not iPhone or iPad literate, so I don't know why that's happening.  I always resize my pictures to 600x800 and upload them and it works just fine.   

Willow Creek is one of my favorites (pretty much along with all the other porcelain jaspers).  Your cab is a beauty!

[irockhound]

600 grit.