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]

Ok Cabbing is all done and each stone had it's share of problems....first off you don't see the tiny lil tigereye cab (bottom right corner from pic above)...well it came off the dop...sigh...so i replaced that one and did the kite shaped one and let me tell you it turned out really good.....i gave it a faceted edges look and no dop...polished all around by hand except the keyhole of course...lol...can't really tell in the pic but can see a facet if you look really hard on the left corner....the heart one came off the dop too but i superglued it back on and it stayed ...oh boy hearts are not a easy task...inside point is hard to get the edge of the wheel in and really them wheels aren't made for that... but what else can one do . Everything else didn't do so bad...the big triangle turned out good and was easy to do...one corner is shallower domed then the rest (Top corner). That Obsidian did ok except them potholes...more info in the Cabbin' Fever Contest....one thing about some of these obsidians and like two rocks from tumbleing is the rings or swirals....i'm starting to think that these are Rainbow Obsidian ....maybe

All in all this was a good learning experience



P.S. this pic is scanned and trust me it's alot better then the light box pic ....so cabs maybe scanned only from now on (mostly because my cell phone don't take good pics...pixals you know....lol)