Lapidary / Gemstone Community Forum

I am going to be heading out of town to visit family and attend my twenty year high school reunion.  So I'm posting this up a few days ahead of time so when the first hits you all have a thread to post your pretties too! 

For new members not familiar with how these contests work.

Entries are cabs only. Completed during this contest period. Not cabs pulled from the drawer.

Please include a pic of the original slab, then a pic of the preform, and finally, the finished cab.

Please try to remember at least a pic or two of the original slab and or preform..

Feel free to share with us what ever you like about the mineral, and or what ever else you would like to share.

You can enter any shape cab and your choice of mineral.

Things like intarsia, finished jewelry, carvings and composite type cabs can not be entered in an effort to keep the contest somewhat fair by just entering free form style cabs.   

Remember, this is all in fun.    yippie24  Just a little something we do together as a group. More about just joining in, and having some fun.

Cabs posted here are only for the contest.  One entry per member.

And here's what y'all will be competing for in August!
You can thank Tony (Catmandew) of Idaho Rock Shop for the gorgeous slabs.

Sorry for the picture.  I'm a bit shaky from my pneumonia drugs right now but otherwise feeling so much better!

We have:
Labradorite
Stony Creek
A chunk of petrified sycamore that broke off a larger slab in shipment. (Just means I have more to give out to y'all...)

Cool narnies  yes16

Suppose someone needs to start, have faith their should be another dawn after Amanda departs.

I will stay with old faithful Agate Creek. This time from the Crystal Hill diggings
A pic I may have shown before from the top of Crystal Hill and two of the monuments there.
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The stone as dug there looks most unpromising, it takes some cleaning and fortitude to cut but the results can be amazing, a huge variety of stone.

My cab from last month was galaxy agate, this stone has some worm holes maybe suitable to connect the galaxy's (any Dr Who fans here?)

This small slab has some clear and tube(worm) agate
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On cutting the stone the back had some imperfections so the stone needed to be reversed. The damaged section could be ground off.
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Finished product
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Due to the subdued colours taking pics was not to easy.
Thanks for looking folks.     

I'll go second.  This is a yellowstone moss we collected by Sydney MT. I thought it very interesting, most the moss we collected has black/orange dendrites in it. This one has green, red and black. You just don't know till you cut em.

Sandsave

Allen - That is one nice Tube /Moss Agate combination.

I have a great weakness for cutting those myself, they can be a very challenging rough, but oh the results when a good one comes along.

great entys; it looks like the month for clear with highlights is the theme so I'll have to do some digging through my pile... maybe some of the "Indian Mountain" will fit.

Tough competition you all are. yes16

Removed.

I love it when y'all take the bull by the horns and charge forward!   dancer27
Great way to start the contest!

That's a really striking cab RR with the one red plume.
Looks like the algae had a battle and someone lost...

All are just top of the line killer cabs!

Yo, the level is given! Far to hight for my own limestone!
Already 2 great cabs though I prefer the second.

gee, just two cabs and already it is hard to decide

R R Where did the killer regency go ???

I don't know.  The person who posted it might have deleted his post for some reason. 

OK, I missed last month but I'm in this month.
This month it is a lace agate with a small druzy pocket.

Slab
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Preformed (and wet)
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Finished cab
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I has been a while since I entered the KCC.  This cab was made from a nice slab of Dry Head Agate that I got back in January.  I just got around to cuting an cab from it today.  This material is so beautiful it is a wonder that i never got around to working with it until now.  I guess I should check my stash box more often LOL
I took the picture of the slab back in January when I got it.  Please exuse me for not taking a picture of the preform as I forgot to take my camera with me to the shop.
Thanks
Stu

The slab
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The finished cab with and without flash.  Daylight picture to follow
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Pictures in daylight
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picture showing relfection

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you sure can tell where in the slab it came from :) I hope you get more than that cab out of the slab because it sure is nice looking material yes16

I'm back in again this month with a cab of Australian Rhodonite I finished this morning.

Slab........
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Preform..........
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X3uXfi43Wd0/U_YmftZXJJI/AAAAAAAARG8/BtzyeKr7hqs/w720-h651-no/2014-08-21%2B013.JPG)

Finished Cab.......
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ndHWJK9NR4c/U_Ymn0ySJNI/AAAAAAAARHc/4QOOYLi9IAI/w868-h651-no/2014-08-21%2B028.JPG)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_TmxdXLAckE/U_YmpjVHXEI/AAAAAAAARHk/io30WrrtfsA/w868-h651-no/2014-08-21%2B029.JPG)

The way it's going it's going to be a bunch of top cabs this month too..... party1 party1 toocool1

Thanks for looking,

39don

My little entry for this month  I believe this is some kind of plume agate, but unsure.

Thank you for looking.

I tried to stick to the theme of transparent with highlights but my rough was not real cooperative and hard to photograph on top of that. It's an Amethyst Sage with some fairly transparent areas and the yellow area is violet by transmitted light ( 1st Photo )

All in and all said it was a fun stone to cut. The central dendrite is over two inches in length.

Photo's are in this order.
Window Shot - Transmitted light.
Stone sawn from slab
Preform
Preform domed and sanded to 1,200
Front View finished
Back of Cab

One after another, this will be very interesting to see who wins, they are all top notch. I SOOOO want to play.

Then do so, what's holding you back?   yes16

Here's mine for this month.  Shape was a freeform.  Final polish was on 8,000 grit NOVA wheel.

very nice malachite piece.

all very worthy entrants this month and I| am sorry that i have been too busy to enter hide35
good luck too all; I won't have to vote for myself this month so someone will get an extra :)

Awesome entries Y'all!
OK you have till tomorrow night to get some more cabs posted.  Are we going to have any more last minute entries?  yes16

I'm going to make the attempt to get voting up on this tomorrow morning.
This give's all you last minute cabbers a chance to slide in!