Scott's Rock Shop Options

[ScottKS]

Hope everyone had good holidays and lets make this new year good too (lets find lots of gold and rocks this year lol)....I'm hopeing this year is better then last year .......Sooooooo......What's New In Scott's Rock Shop.....it's been about a month since the last post

Made more Creepy Crawlers...These was something i added to the gifts for Christmas (String and card ones only...the rest i kept...lol) The shovel is on one side of the string and then the creepy crawler on the other end...The string is elastic and you put the shovel end on your finger and fling the creepy crawler to scare people lol....I think my brother did a good job of doing that to the kids...lol.....his was the only one being used and was the first one to break but was fixed by putting the string around it's neck (Orange Card)....lmao



Here is my Shrunkin Head Creepy Crawler Necklace ...SEE this stuff can be made into jewelry and will be much better once i can cast these



Here is all the rocks finished....turned out really well



Here is something cool i made with my new label maker (Christmas gift...Thanks Mommy and Mike...Thanks Grandma for the pill container ).....Do you all remember what i said before i started the bach (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) Nov 15 2009, 11:35 PM .........Welp i made this

[ScottKS]

New Stuff for the Rock Shop

More Creepy Crawler Molds....did some wireing to make legs for the Ant and Wolf Spider



Here is something i got from ebay.....I call them a Light Box.....now takeing photos shouldn't be a problem (just as long as it fits in the box...lol) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=270510430090



It's been almost a week ago but last Saturday i went to Wichita and went to Ebersole's......I have never been there before and have always wanted to go.......Granny and Gramps (Spear's Rock Shop) did alot of business with this company and i asked the owner and he said he remembers them........i was told that this company has been trying to sell out for 5 years now but it's still open...just don't know for how long .......there's still alot i want from them so i will do more business with them (until they close the doors)....they said that most of the venders (settings/findings mostly) are about all out of business.....they wouldn't tell me who they are.....i don't know what i'll do about stone settings if Ebersoles does close the doors.....i guess i just need to buy them out....lol ya right.....like i can afford that



Here is all the stuff i got......Over $300 worth all for alil less then $100.....good thing everything was 75% off... (i'm keeping these two pics the original pic size so the items can maybe be seen better ...just click on the pic )




Closeup of one of everything....If anyone is ever in the area go check out Ebersole's....they have rocks.....a rockhounds dream...lol http://www.ebersolelapidary.com/






And finally here is some storage i got from Wal-Mart

[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

[ScottKS]

Dopping Time....1st time with this New Dop Station...it worked ok...might be a easyer way to do it tho...lol....that round strip below the slabs is a heating pad to heat the slabs to make the wax bond to the dop stick...it works but the stone is hot and i almost burnt myself....lol...so once you put the stick on it you can either grab the stick and hurry to flip it over (if not fast enough the slab will fall off and make a mess) or i found out that tweezers and holding on to the stick can be done to move it to a steel block for cooling (the wax has to cool some to make the stick stay and it can't do that on the heating pad lol...so i found out that tweezers is kinda a must because the other way is a mess lol)...will take some time to get use too...it's kinda safer then the old candle dopping station that i still have....lol....soooo anyways.....i picked 6 stones to work....i only do so many at a time.....don't want to over do it by doing abunch at one time.




All Dopped and ready to go




P.S. Remember one of these stones (Top Right) is in the Cabbin' Fever Contest http://www.coloradoprospector.com/forums/i...t=15#entry18572

[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)

[ScottKS]

Here is the Drill Station that i setup last Sunday to make the holes for the two beads for the Cabbin' Fever Contest




The Cabbin' Fever Contest Project is done.....check it out
http://www.coloradoprospector.com/forums/i...t=15#entry18811

[faaus]

Scottinski,

I just had to stop in and congratulate how far you've come.

Hang in there Buddy,

faaus

[ScottKS]

Silver Mouse Pendant with Iron Tigereye Cab....been done for awhile but couldn't post this until the person i made it for got it (cousin in Chicago). ...And Thanks mom for takeing this pic....that's why it turned out this well....wish my cell phone would take pics like this lol

P.S. This cab is in my last group cab post Posted Mar 1 2010, 01:35 AM





P.S. Lol Denise i changed it on ya.....mom thought it was cool but she isn't a mouse lover soooo.....lol she might of felt left out this time tho

[Denise]

That turned out really cute Scott! Im sure your mom really likes it and is very proud of the great work you do.

[ScottKS]

Ok Denise this one is for mom

Mom's Dolphin Bookmark Project (Completed 12-01-10...Upgraded & Repaired 12-11-10)...Couldn't post this until i gave it to mom...


This Pic show's the bookmarks better..but not so much on the beads..that's why i post this one

[Denise]

Very cool Scott! Those would look really cool with the Apache tears you tumbled also.

We have given away thin slabs of Coprolite that had too many fractures to work for book markers. It wasnt what we were expecting him to do with the slabs, but he says they work great! He even has a larger polished chunk of Coprolite from us that he uses to hold the book open as he's reading.

Im sure your mom loves them Scott! She always does since they are made by you.

[swizz]

Scott, good stuff and keep up the good work!
I enjoy looking at your pics.

[ScottKS]

Mom's Snowflake Pendant (Completed 12-16-10)

I was going to wait to give this to her on Christmas Day but she was looking for something to wear tonight so i just couldn't wait...lol

[ScottKS]

Rings Redux with Tigereye Beads and Snowflake Pendant with Light Amethyst Beads

The Rings Redux (jumprings) has been done for a long time...i just got around to wire in the tigereye beads.

Snowflake Pendant with Light Amethyst Beads

[ScottKS]

Stuff i got from Duckwalls...only 50 cents each...i am wanting to add see threw~ (sun catchers)~rock slabs to the open areas (the open one has the windows popped out...(yellow arrow) to show where the slabs will be glued in) projects in the makeing.

Sea Shells will just be a hole drilled out in the middle with a Sun Catcher slab or cab glued in....Yes Mom a blue one will be yours...just keep eyes open for what stone you want.