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 Jan 29 2008, 05:45 PM
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 Master Mucker!  Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3  |
I've been fiddlin' with this piece off and on for a long time and it's finally finished.
We visited the Opal Hill mine ourselves during our agate adventure 06' which is also posted here within the CP forums. Caught some nice fire from two angles on this piece.  Actually it was finished last night but had to wait for some better light during the day to set off the "fire"  In hand the color lashes out in the sunlight! Here are a couple quick pics.......What do you think? CP
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Jan 29 2008, 05:52 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Bottom half flashes green and orange veins like you see here and at one spot in the light the entire bottom half is fire orange solid!
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Jan 30 2008, 12:56 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 20-February 07 From: Richland Mississippi Member No.: 994 |
Simply beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 31 2008, 04:03 PM
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 Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
I think you did a great job! It looks awesome Dan.
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Jan 31 2008, 06:21 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 120 Joined: 8-February 07 From: Kentucky Member No.: 978 |
What a joy to behold! You enhance nature's beauty by letting her look her best.
Great job Dan! |
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Mar 14 2008, 08:11 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Here is a pic from another thread of Fire Agates Dan worked on.
 This pic does not do these pieces justice. Fire Agate is hard to get pics of.  Some how he can take a piece of Fire Agate we dug up.......(looks like milky coated brown bubbly stones) and work them till the fire jumps right out at you. Hes good at being able to tell where the fire is hiding in the stone, and bring it out to where its almost jumping out of the stone. Hes working on a bunch more.....Hopefully he will share some pics with us. 
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Mar 14 2008, 08:14 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,187 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Some pieces we found didnt need to be worked to see the fire inside.
 This is a piece of Fire Agate, as found from the ground at the Opal Hill mine. Blythe California -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Mar 16 2008, 06:07 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Well........pics of the fire agate are getting better but they still don't do the stones justice. In hand and sunlight the "fire" is really amazing!!
I'm going to put two pics of this latest group of cabs.....one is with flash and one without to show how dark they can look. Thanks for the kudos Denise  I've been teasing the fire out of these pieces for over a week, but I think they were teased enough to fire off just a bit.  For those of you who also got or are getting more snow this weekend.......here's a little warm up. Enjoy CP
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Mar 16 2008, 06:09 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
and same group without the flash.
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Mar 17 2008, 07:56 AM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 20-February 07 From: Richland Mississippi Member No.: 994 |
UNREAL.........and th best part is ya got to collect it yourself
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Mar 17 2008, 05:43 PM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 99 Joined: 17-December 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 53 |
Very nice stuff, but does it come in blue?
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Mar 18 2008, 10:59 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Here's a couple of fire agate guitar picks Denise just finished up.
Also material we collected ourselves at the Opal Hill mine. Jim says I'm just crazy slappin that in the vise.....  Fun though buddy!
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Mar 18 2008, 02:53 PM
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 Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 464 Joined: 2-March 06 From: Lewis KS Member No.: 319 |
WOW.....Cool
.....something different i guess and they turned out awsome
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Mar 18 2008, 04:15 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Thanks Scott.
Here's what the nodule looked like before cutting began. (lower right) Both picks in the pic above  are from that nodule and are consecutive slices.
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Mar 18 2008, 09:14 PM
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Rock Bar! Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 20-February 07 From: Richland Mississippi Member No.: 994 |
IN....FREAKIN..............CREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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