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Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:06 pm
by roc2rol
That's good!
The board going thru a dry spell
and with summer breaking people
will get out hiking and posting again
Or we'll all end up at rock bottom!
:)
I can only encourage to look for gold rocks
or any other types that worth cutting and polishing.
I don't have much money but You can throw them at me :lol:

So this summer I hounded and polish these beauts in Phoenix

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I'm looking forward to another season of doing lapidary work outside,
rock hounding, plus all the rock & mineral shows that will start up
for the fall/winter season in the southwest

support your local rock hound
and best to everyone
get out and enjoy!

roc
Ed

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:08 pm
by roc2rol
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this is a piece of dark chert I hounded in Phoenix
pretty unusual to find this material in the Phoenix area..

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:27 pm
by Apache Devil
Nice stuff. I thought about getting into lapidary as something to do in the wintertime.

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:40 pm
by reptilist
That will fit well with your other hobby of getting stoned!
:lol:

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:13 pm
by roc2rol
:lol:
no no no I don't do dat nomor
a couple hits and I'm like
Help! I'm a Rock! :shock:

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:27 pm
by roc2rol
Apache Devil wrote:Nice stuff. I thought about getting into lapidary as something to do in the wintertime.
Howdy dude
I definetly encourage ya
so many different aspect to the rock hobby

one of simplest and inexpensive ways
to get started is to buy a tile saw.
A 7" Workforce usually under 90.00
can be had at pawn shops for 60.00
a person can get real good at slabbing a good size rock with one

anyway just go out a collect some intersting looking rocks
and cut them in 1/2
its the inside that make the rock unbelieveable
its amazing how well the saw blade polishes the face cut
a little of that and ya can get hooked pretty quick

I hound in Phoenix in the landscaping river rocks
found marbles, calcites, chalcendony, schist ect..
the ones above were from landscaping river rock


and of course there always tumbling...
Ed

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:21 pm
by Apache Devil
reptilist wrote:That will fit well with your other hobby of getting stoned!
:lol:


I can only daydream about getting stoned. They do fairly regular random urine testing where I work. :cry:



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Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:29 pm
by roc2rol
Thanks Ed
for the info !

Ha ha

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:08 pm
by Apache Devil
roc2rol wrote:Thanks Ed
for the info !

Ha ha


Hey, that sounds like stuff I can actually work with. I don't have much room around here, but that would not take much.

Re: Summer Almost Gone!

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:26 pm
by roc2rol
yep the Workforce 7” saw doesn’t take much room
and it’s a must have machine for lapidary work.
I leave mine outside, covered with a plastic tub.
The weather not going to damage it any
and its ready to cut, anytime.

Lapidary machines don’t take much room.
But all the rocks a person collects sure can!!
:lol: