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[auscarver]

Wow, great entrys, will be hard to decide a winner, my entry is Australian imperial rhodonite from my region, very rare rhodonite this grade.

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Hi All

Gemfeller Thanks and I agree that "calibrated" cabs that for mass produced settings are cut at least  .25 mm below calibration standards for perfect calibration. Yes at times i strive to see just how i can do. How do I compare my skills in this to another against the standard of a perfect cut calibration.

Yea I am

Hey  auscarver

My oldest girl saw your heart and now wants me to make one. Very nice. Awsome material I want some.

Beautiful

Bless
Shawn

[Sandsave]

Wow, nice! I wonder what shipping is to Australia?

[Phishisgroovin]

ok, im in.
Slaughter Mountain arizona fire agate.
Carved this from a preform i sliced from a larger rock a year ago.
I didnt even think there would be a speck of fire, just wanted to make a simple cabochon on my wheels. but i hit it with my Fordome last weekend.

I love the purple and greens, I wanted the original host rock/matrix, the white milky agate and opal to all flow together, i think i succeeded in my attempt, with a gift of Lillies in the valley (the colorful fire)

[Sandsave]

Hmmm now my shipping costs might have gotten smaller. Nice!

On a side note I'm headed to Phoenix Sunday to play golf and watch golf, but mostly play golf. I get back on the 7th, if the voting closes before then will the winner pm me their shipping address.

[Phishisgroovin]

Hmmm now my shipping costs might have gotten smaller. Nice!

On a side note I'm headed to Phoenix Sunday to play golf and watch golf, but mostly play golf. I get back on the 7th, if the voting closes before then will the winner pm me their shipping address.

you're just going to go drink ice cold beer on a golf course from your golf bag/beer cooler. no fibbing......

[Phishisgroovin]

am i cheating using a stone with teal, green, gold, red, brown and purple fire colors in it?

[Asianfire]

Wow, nice additions all round.

Now I really need to get a good pic of my intended entry..........!

[Debbie K]

Wow, we're  getting some great participation and stones this time! I want to see more!

Debbie K

[hummingbirdstones]

No worries about timing.  Entries have to be by the end of the day on the 31st.  I'll put the voting up on 2/1 and voting is open for 2 weeks.   

[Orrum]

O my goodness the competing just keeps ramping up!!!

[ileney]

I've been away and just came back to see all these incredible entries. Debbie, that has got to be the best piece of opal I have ever seen. How did you get the colors to show up when you took the picture?  What a spectacular, beautiful piece of carving. I am turning green with envy.

[Debbie K]

The first muted picture was with filtered light. The second was taken with direct light from an incandescent table lamp. I think it is a pretty amazing opal, too.  It started out being about 1.5" x 1.5", and I was able to retain almost the same dimensions. Most of the weight loss was from the grinding off of the really high parts; carving was kept to a minimum. Believe it or not, I came up with 15 designs, and this was one of the 3 that keep almost all of the stone.

Michael, you're the opal expert, what would an opal that large and with that much fire fetch? All I know was that the thing terrified me to carve, I think I'll stick to the quartzes for a while and recover my nerve.

Debbie K

[Bluetangclan]

Heres my last minute entry before I bug out for a couple weeks. Some kind of purple and orange stone. moderate hardness. This was a test to see how it cabbed as my main entry was going to be a cool fossil, but the phone came brought out too many flaws I couldnt see with the naked eye.

[ToTheSummit]

OK, I said I would get one into this contest and this weekend was my last good chance to get one together.  So here is my entry.

Green moss agate.

This was the first slab to drop off this stone (after the end cut).  A piece broke off of one side of the slab and it had some interesting waterline agate and fortification with a small druzy pocket.  I decided that this broken piece made a perfect preform...no trim saw required.


I let the natural shape of the piece dictate to me how it would end up.  This is the final cab.





I also polished the back.  The waterline shows nicely there.