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« on: October 11, 2012, 06:05:33 am » |
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Some stones just call out to be worked. This is some jasper/agate from the Saddle area of Agate Creek. The stone was small and rough, the slabs a little pock marked but using Michael's Hxtal recoverable. The cabs are set using 0.3 x 5.0 mm fine silver just rolled over the rounded stone edge. I may have accumulated a few brownie points from my wife, her friend and my niece.  Individual pics    |
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39don
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2012, 07:29:46 am » |
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Hi Allen,
I love your cabs and your silver work, very nice. Simple but effective!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
39don
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skystone
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2012, 12:51:05 pm » |
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Those look like Gary Green bog / Larsonite material with agate infills of cracks. Very nice simple ellegance. I'm sure you did make Brownie points (probably needed LOL).
Mike
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« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2012, 01:20:28 pm » |
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Those are great!
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Nancie "Rock It 2 Me" Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Don't take life so seriously...It's not like you're going to get out alive ;-)  |
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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2012, 07:31:24 pm » |
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Fantastic Allen. Very clever and simple way to set those stones.
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hulagrub
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« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2012, 07:38:21 pm » |
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Very, very nice!
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Allen
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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2012, 10:33:11 pm » |
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
I am a devotee to the kiss principle.
For pendants I now use 3 methods to display the stone.
Favourite as shown above.
Second groove the stone and use a single wire wrap with either 0.7 mm square (can be twisted) or 1 mm round.
Third drill the stone with 1.2 mm drill and use a pinch bail.
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helens
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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2012, 10:53:00 pm » |
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Those are stunning!!!! Love the stones, love the setting, love the cut of the cabs!!! Wonderful!
Those are gorgeous stones too!
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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2012, 10:45:01 am » |
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wow...those are amazing and really pop!
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skystone
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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2012, 12:49:14 pm » |
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If I remember right you're in Oz? So those cabs came from there? Here are some I did of Gary Green/Larsonite from here in the States. They don't have the streaks of agate filling the craks. Which certainly add to yours & give them a different look. I wonder if the same processes (geological) formed the material you found. Mike  |
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Allen
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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2012, 05:06:20 pm » |
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Mike it certainly looks like a similar material.
The geology of my site dates back about 300 million years and a large volcanic system that formed the Agate Creek basalt and rhyolite beds.
This is where the Agate Creek agates, jaspers, cherts and thunder eggs originate from.
We are fortunate at the huge range in the same area. In some areas such as Bald hill we have green, blue/black and red as well as pink agates interspersed with some sardonyx
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skystone
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« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2012, 08:28:02 pm » |
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Ok then that stands to reasone they may be the same processes. As I understand it the Larsonite comes from a swamp/bogg. That was covered millions of years ago by volcanic ash. It is fossilized blue green algae (moss). But the material there may have the addition of being agatized?
Mike
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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2012, 12:45:46 am » |
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Beautiful Pendants, I realy like the stone.
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