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Gergis

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progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« on: August 30, 2014, 10:46:45 AM »
after a little self debate on what was going to go in first i went with some tigers eye..second was some really neato local olympic poppy jasper..just a start but still learning the new genie, pieces in progress.  :hello2:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 11:04:48 AM »
Very nice, Tiger eye is one of my very favorites.
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 11:51:53 AM »
Love them, the tiger eye especially!   Although I do hate cutting that stuff.   :toothy10:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2014, 12:19:05 PM »
Nice!  You are doing your new Genie huge justice!   :thumbsup:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2014, 03:41:21 PM »
third piece today..i originally did a couple preforms of a serpentine i found a couple months back at franks place and the first pendant i tried making was heavily fractured and it cracked mid job so i knew this piece would blow up too so i dropped it on the concrete and kept the top that still had the drill hole to salvage that piece onto something...and here ya go..still needs sone work but will make a few more for a necklace or something nice :-)
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 03:42:18 PM »
also thanks for the compliments guys!  :occasion14:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 04:49:09 PM »
Nice save!
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2014, 06:28:57 PM »
Opals break if you drop them on bricks as well.   Beware... :sad5:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2014, 07:52:32 PM »
Or Concrete.  Ask me how I know ...  :confused5:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2014, 07:30:27 AM »
Ha!   I knew we had lots in common!   :icon_jokercolor:
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2014, 08:21:54 AM »
Tile floors will also make a multi-stone "set" of an opal. Very quick process. Far from painless.
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2014, 08:46:57 AM »
yeah i swear the first opal cab i made was really a mexican jumping bean cause i just could NOT keep in in my hands when i would take it outside to look in natural light to look for flaws..must of dropped it twenty times i swear..only one chip but i def learned my lesson!!
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Re: progess on my first pieces on my new machine :-)
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2014, 08:52:39 AM »
Nice stones; the serpentine with the hole in the middle will be a nice focal bead; I'd much rather they break before I start shaping than after an hours work... there is a sound that solid stones have that a fractured one doesn't.
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