The material I have looks just like low-grade rose quartz, except it's white.  It was easy to cab.

Jeremy,  You've got some beautiful eggs there!  It inspires me to dig out my box of Richardson's Ranch eggs and do some more cutting.  My partner and I call those moss eggs from Richardson's like you show "curtain moss", because some of it looks just like the old cotton lace curtains. 

Here are a couple more pics.  The chunk is still in the saw vise.

With tape measure for size.  It was 4 or 5 inches longer before I cut the slabs.  Sort of like a gnarly loaf of bread:


From the back:


Another from the top;


Thanks for any help.

Hi all,

My buddy was over last week and we picked a rock out of the rock pile and cut it.  It weighed about 15 or 20 pounds before cutting.  It was purchased 20 or so years ago in an estate.  Neither one of us knew what it was.  Can anybody ID it?







Thanks for looking!

Neal, thanks for your comment.  Yes I like the pastel colors and dendrites in the center stone too.  Unfortunately I can't tell you what the center piece is - I got a slab of it out of a small estate.  It is a dendritic jasper of some sort.  I made the composite cab.  The inner frame is basanite.  The second frame is polka dot.  The outer frame is petrified wood.

Martha,  People have been trying to get Ron's link for years - no luck.  I finally made a PowerPoint presentation which is way too big to send over the internet.  I did convert it to a smaller PDF that I can email out.  PM me if you want it.  It shows how I made this one:

Thanks Michael.  Do you have climbing gear?  If so, I'll keep you in mind when the weather warms up a little.

Thanks Jeremy.  It came from a fairly large vein, but I won't go back until the weather warms up.  By the time I got back to the truck my hands were so cold/numb that I couldn't get the keys out of my jeans pocket for about 5 minutes.

Found some interesting chunks of jasper near the Skokomish River, up on a cliff face.  I'm glad the rope held or I wouldn't be posting these:

Slabs dry (the black lines are healed fractures).  Most of it seemed pretty solid:



Slabs wet:




Thanks for looking.

My partner found this piece of float the last time we went to Maury Mountain.  Slab showing both sides.

Chunks or chips of Natural Brazilian Agate.  This would be my guess, since that is what the seller says on his listing.

Those are nice Gravies!  Love the pink in them.

As mentioned, the black jade is getting kind of pricey.  I walked around on the beach a few months ago and picked up some of the black rock that looked like it would take a polish, then brought it home and checked it out.  It worked up pretty good for the price.  Here are the pieces I picked up and a pendant I made from one of them.

 

You might want to walk around on the beach and save a little money.    My 2 daughters and wife all got a pendant as a souvenir from the beach cabins we were staying in & they loved them.

Beautiful creation!  Do you know where the stone is from?

All very nice Grant!  That amethyst really pops - must be REALLY dark to show like that on a white background.