Check out this bad boy, pretty sure its a carnelian, let me know if I'm mistaken. Golf ball sized beauty, I have a weird work schedule and its the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, I've been poking around the area with my flashlight. I have a small area here where I'm allowed to search in private property. Got a bunch of chert and maybe a little Jasper to tumble, and then this guy!
I left it in stage 5 12,000 grit for 2 weeks instead of 1. I think I would like an ultrasonic cleaner for between stages instead of running a borax clean overnight.
Also, some individual pics of one of the rocks that is a conglomerate of crynoids that I didn't realize until the second stage. I love how it turned out and it now lives on a shelf with other favorite fossils of mine.
Found this on the ground at work in Utah, I work by the San Rafael Swell, north end.
Biggest one I've ever found, can't wait to cut this one open. I think the inside might be worthy of stabbing and making cabochons, hopefully anyway.
I hope this will fly in this group, I really need someone who is a much better artist than I am and who is experienced with finishing 3d printed stuff. I have a large dragon skull I have started sanding to smooth down though that isn't finished yet, I'm wanting the skull to end up looking weathered and old. I need an artist!
I've got a little Rikon pen lathe, I work away from home and am still setting up my little shop so I can use it. And now I don't need to figure out what I will upgrade into. My dad passed away a year ago, he was trying to give me his lathe before that because he wanted to see what I would create before he went, didn't get that far though sadly. I just drove up and retrieved it as well as the tools and a big dust collector as well as a bunch of his wood. I don't have anywhere at the moment to use it or power it, but I will eventually in the next couple of years. I need to find a turning club that meets on my days off, so far they are all during the week when I'm away though. I look forward to being able to use his tools eventually, for now I will practice with my little pen lathe and plan a shop around his Jet 1640 he gave me.
Central Utah, its like a slice of something was turned into a rock or something. Sides look to have dendrites yeah? Its smooth, almost like it wants to be chalky but isnt, waxy but isnt, somewhere in between maybe. Its pretty much a quarter of a sphere.
I took a cut and polish class at my local rock shop, spent the second half of the day using their saw to cut open some geodes/polish some other rocks I brought.
I saw someone else posting pictures of their expert work, they were framing the stones and cutting them as landscapes which I loved. Here's my first go, I see a mountain with a sunset sky, it was me doing the work but I was also being instructed step by step, I like the result. Would you affix it to something or set it in something? Or just leave as is and keep in your collection?
Found these at work in Utah and thought they looked pretty cool, now I can see some details that make me think fossilized tiny creatures. Am I right? Until today I wasn't able to see these details. Few different rocks, multiple angles. Zoom in on pic 7 and see some kind of geometric looking stuff, maybe some kind of snail 🐚?
My daughters and I did a whole batch woth the nat geo walmart tumbler, and at the end we were very disappointed like so many others. So then I found this sub and someone posted Michigan rocks from YouTube and I watched some of his stuff. Ended up with a couple harbor freight tumblers when they were on sale and some new grit, I used 8000 for stage 4 and 12000 for stage 5. In between stages I did a borax tumble that would last in some cases 5 days because I was away for work. Its been a long road but here are the results :)
Fossilized somethings, no idea what but seems pretty cool to me, found at work and wanted to tumble them, glad I did cause I wasn't able to see these details. Very small but zoom in for even better looks.
Did I just find a little ammonite in the gravel here in Utah?
Central Utah, is this nothing? Do you perhaps recognize it as a fossil of some kind? Or should I just toss it back where it came from? Looks like a flake off of a bigger rock, the back side curved a little as if it were the outside of said rock at some point.
Found in east central UT by San Rafael Swell. Not sure of the hardness, diamond pad takes it down but aluminum oxide sandpaper 120 grit seemed to hardly touch it. I worked it a bit to better see inside. Some kind of onyx maybe? Rock shop guy took a quick look while looking my other rocks and said maybe marble. Fun colors, little floaty balls in the clear quartzy bits.