From time to time here in the CP lapidary shop we have a dispute of opinion. Oh yea, it's about rocks.
So, one of us (not sayin' who) wants to cut the piece while the other wants it saved as is.
In light of this (and many previous or yet to come "disputes" ), we thought it might be fun for some forum members to give us feed back on them and help decide.

We'll put up a vote poll when we add a disputed piece which everyone can cast a vote on.
Question is.......
Cut the piece or not cut the piece and save as is for a specimen?

Here's the piece we are currently stale mated on in the shop - Agate, nice bubbles and looks to have pink plumes.
First view
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Second view
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Thanks for your input and feedback everyone.

I don't know how you could cut that and still live with yourself.

Denise does my vote count since you know that I am a cut it up freak? LOL

Well folks, the only votes that won't count are the ones that aren't cast.
Cast your vote in the poll above and it sure will count.
I'll refrain from further comment as my comments might incriminate my postition.

bubbles, bubbles, bubble, bubbles......and plumes.

the only way id have that peice cut is if i had more of them! i found a geode about the size of a golf ball that was split inhalf, the center was heart shaped and it was black botryoidal hemotite. very nice looking peice. a half hour latter i found the other half!!! what a very uncommon coincidance! i gave it to my wife for valentines day!

This cutter voted against cutting I agree with russau. Only If I had another.

Got to agree with russau and GB - keep one intact and cut the other (in that order) - time to go out and find a duplicate piece for cutting.

To cut, or not to cut..... "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." -- Jack Handey

Oooops, I almost forgot to vote myself!




Too funny Carl......ahhhhh, but is this rock screaming too much for no good reason?

I dunno. Ask Russ.

So when does this poll end Dan?

I think my photographer was bubble biased.

Don't know about finding more but if it's cut then I would have more than one piece.



How long does the poll run? I don't know, hadn't thought about length of time to run the poll.

By the votes in the poll..............It looks like Dan and Jim were here.

Sorry guys but by the looks of the poll, that rock will live on as is.

Ok ok instead of cutting it just go ahead and cab it like it is.

Well lets see...... two votes to cut and 5 not to cut......so I can cut 2 slices and keep the other five whole?

As the # NOT to cut rises.

So Dan let that specimen sit for several more years.......until I pulled it out for display reasons and he got a look at it again.

This was the end result of him taking two slices off of it. Pics shown wet to see the patterns inside...

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A close up look at one of the slices.

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Spectacular. I would have never guessed it looked like that inside.... good call on CUT!