Scott's Rock Shop Options

[ScottKS]

Here is some pictures of my rock shop in progress.....these pics are the before am still decideing if i want to set it all back up because everything in the boxes in that cornor use to be on those shelfs on the wall....as u can see dad has his lil chopper still in there and that is a hazard hopefully we will get that out this weekend so i will have more room to play with....the last pic is a pic of my lapidary or (PDQ as it says on the front....not sure yet what that stands for but it is a lil table top lapidary) right now it is setup for faceting (without the disk in the platform) and drilling right below that on the left side and a lil polishing wheel on the left and then the trim saw on the right on the motor. This is just the begining........there will be more

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[ScottKS]

So what's new in Scott's Rock Shop so far this month?

I got this watch repair kit setup.....have already paid for it for the most part...took out a link on one watch and replaced two batteries in a watch of dad's...dad told me that one time he had to take one to a jeweler because Wally World wouldn't replace it...dad's is screw off not pop off so i had to use the tool at the very top...so maybe that's another reason Wal Mart couldn't replace it...that and it was a Fossil and this one i repaired was too...it costed him like $13 to change just one battery....i replaced two and it didn't cost him anything except for the batteries of course...lol...so i really think in the long run i will pay for this over and over.....(seeings it only cost me like $6...lol) The stuff to the right is cotter pins and spring bars (for the band part of a watch) them cost me way more $40 and when i got it the cotter pins was a mess...had to redo it all and put the pins back in the right compartments.....that took a couple days....sigh .....but you know you have to spend money to make it and better spend it while i still have it seeings it won't last long....lol

Links: seeings the picture didn't turn out very good....lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/16-WATCH-BAND-STRAP-RE...=item334f89292d
(Same price i paid...got for $6 because i had ebay bucks)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=350270556864

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=230393807945



I added these shelfs right by the arcade to display rocks...i'm wanting to add lights to the center shelfs and display slabs....sun catchers us rockhounds call them...lol. I got these shelfs from grandma and she got them from her mom (granny...Spear's Rock Shop) These selfs are still work in progress so there will be more pics of it someday...lol



Here is some more Sea Life Necklaces i made (2 more)



Ok last but not least .....I started a batch of rocks today (WOW..it's about time) if my records are right the last time i did a batch was 10/21/2003 Yes you heard right...just over 6...i said it 6 years ago.....Wow...mostly i think the reason it's been so long is because it takes a constant month of being around the tumbler...you just can't leave it's side and it's hard to determine if your going to be around for a month with no vacation trips. 4 weeks on the first 4 grits and this is the first load that i get to try the NEW M-5 Fast Deep Shine Polish...so 5 weeks with this last step. All of these rocks are Apache Tears/Obsidian from the Burro Creek AZ trip last year (just think a year ago i was just heading back from there) wow how time flys. What makes this load different...not only the M-5 polish but i'm going to grab one rock after each grit so people can see the step process I can't wait to see the results.....Isn't Rockhounding FUN