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Buse lake blue
« on: March 29, 2015, 02:54:09 PM »
Figured I'd pick on something easy today after getting skunked at the old Disdero Robbins range dig so I spent the morning acting like a gopher and came up with this batch showing various shades of blue, I left a bunch of clear and so light of blue It wasn't worth packing out behind. I'm having second thoughts about one piece I left because I think if I convexed the back of a small cab I could get more blue out of it by reflecting the light back out the top. Oh well, it'll still be there for another time....
 
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2015, 03:50:19 PM »
I just saw this on Facebook a few minutes before popping in here.  Nice blue, I like! :icon_thumleft:
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2015, 05:04:17 PM »
It will be fun figuring these pieces out. I love this stuff.
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2015, 05:50:33 PM »
Thanks Frank and TTS, I posted it here first :) The botryoidal drusey one in the centre is a beauty and the big plate on the bottom right is over an inch thick and weighs close to a pound 1/2 so I think I've got a bit of material to work the bugs out; not that I want to waste any of this :) That square one in the centre is the palest blue but it is such a unique shape I had to take it.
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2015, 06:00:11 PM »
Love me some blue agate!
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2015, 06:24:23 PM »
I hear through the grapevine there is a place pretty close to you in OR that produces some pretty fine material too :)
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2015, 09:36:30 PM »
Great haul!  I am diggin' the square one too- that is a fun piece.  The color is really nice, you done good.
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2015, 11:05:13 PM »
Just love that material I got to get down that way one of these days. :coffee2:
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2015, 04:54:32 PM »
Like I say Ernie, anytime you're down....
a piece of the blue I am working on, it is 25mm x 17mm and is the lightest of the blue pieces; such a delicate shade of blue; I've got to give some of this to a faceter, I know they would be a lot more brutal than I am.... now on to the resin wheels for a polish of some sort :) I know I'm not going to do the material justice.
 
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2015, 05:24:56 PM »
That is sure pretty material,WOW! :WEEEE:
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2015, 06:31:11 PM »
Thanks Bent
I buffed it up as best I could with what I have; this is at 300 on the diamond resin wheels, thanks for looking, I guess I'm going to call this my slumped cushion cut....
Edited to correct; it is 3000 grit on the diamond resin wheels.....

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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2015, 07:55:58 PM »
I think lovely is the appropriate word!
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2015, 08:56:44 PM »
Thanks Frank, I just wish my skills were up to the material; oh well, practice, practice, practice....
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2015, 09:05:17 PM »
Looks like your skills are quite awesome to me! ;-)
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Re: Buse lake blue
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2015, 11:06:47 PM »
Quote from: Gergis on March 30, 2015, 09:05:17 PM
Looks like your skills are quite awesome to me! ;-)

Yup Gergis nailed it.  :icon_thumleft:
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