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]

Here is some projects i'm working my way up too....i cut these slabs to get everything up to the same step which is dopping and then cabbing.

Here is the collection.....the black whole rock in the center will be cut in half as slabs then cabbed for the Cabbin' Fever Contest http://www.coloradoprospector.com/forums/i...amp;#entry18459



Here is the aftermath.....all the top stuff is the leftovers....as you can see one didn't make it....fractures are the worse things that can happen to cabbing .....only thing to do is move on....sometimes it can be worked around....like just use the same slab but make the cab much smaller....well in this case i can't do that...not much there to work with (unless i do a free form....i might do that or little bits you can throw in the tumbler and make beads and such with them) ....now i have stuff to cab....many projects.....if you look above when i got my dopping station there is more cabs (Page 6....Nov 30 2009, 02:04 AM)(All these slabs are in that pic too).....sooo...i won't be cutting for awhile....next stage is dopping