Some of these will be drilled as beads and some I just don't know at this time. I am putting them here because I have never posted in the bead section and I am a little shy about it. Frank posts a lot there and my post might get up next to one of his and melt because his beads are always hot.
I have been making some crazy shapes lately trying to do something different. I have also been cutting up some rock that doesn't look like anything I have seen before. Mostly something with some kind of inclusions in it. May even be a basalt mix but they look pretty cool polished. This is one of them.
This is another strange rock that Russ (nowyo) and I thought might be glaucophane but this piece works a bit different than the glaucophane I have worked before. Hard to say. Just showing one side because this was just a test polish and the other side is still a rock.
This really looks like hematite and jasper but the only way I have seen that before was in layers. Definitely hematite though (I think). I had to chuckle because this one also has a back side that is just rock. I am going to have to quit doing that.
I sent some of this to Frank and stumped him so you know damn well that I am stumped. Looks and works like quartz but have no idea what it is. Someone on RTH said it is pet wood because someone else had some that looked the same. Could be but it does not make good jewelry because the haze in some of it makes it look like a bad polish job. This piece is long, 3.5 inches and since the back looks better than the front I am going to grind the front off flat and make it the back.
This stuff is weird. I thought it was nephrite but Frank said not. I bought it as nephrite in Q but I did not get robbed because it is beautiful stuff. The black is chatoyant like feldspar only in a leafy sort of way. Like there are flakes pencil erasure size. It polishes a lot like jade but I dropped a piece and now have two pieces which you will see here. Used to be one long piece.
That first square piece is going to get a hole drilled all the way through from side to side (if I can do it) but not sure how to do this next one.
That's all folks. I have been spending most of my time working on the sand gardens so I have not accomplished much of anything else (except naps of course).
Saturday is turkey day for us so most of my day was spent cutting wood at an angle.
Hope ya'll had a good day.
Jim
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Topic: Some cabs (or beads) I finally finished. (Read 3340 times)