ROCKs, LONG

[Guest guest]

Hi Judy,

 

Oh honey, we love rocks too!

 

You can use a dremel for polishing rocks, I have partially polished an opal

with it. Then I dropped the opal. Make sure you are over something soft

cause they are very fragile. It broke, in two. But the piece with the fire

is still in one piece.

 

There are tumblers and polishers and all sorts of neat tools. [that's why I

wonder if a sewing machine is the right piece of equipment for me, it's not

a fishing rod or a tool] lol. Go to Diamond Pacific Co online, they will

send you a catalog that is wonderful. they make some neato stuff.

 

Where do you live? As soon as my broken foot heals, [as long as I stay off

it], you should come and go rockhounding with us. Petrified wood, jaspers,

crystals [if we can still get in to the land where the rich folk have made

the forest service shut down where we all went digging], and there's a great

place in far north eastern nev that we haven't been to yet for fire opals.

We have onyx from Safford area, petrified wood from Joseph City area, some

nice crystals from Payson area, one is double headed, beautiful red jasper

from Mingus Mountain area, [ya never know what's on the ground til you go

pee], lol. I have some petrified wood from Medford Oregon area, was friends

with a guy who owned land in the middle of the Agate Desert and he let me

rock hound on his property. Man, I got some GREAT rocks there! jasper,

different agates, breacciated jasper. And we got two huge rocks of Morgan

Hill poppy jasper from Steve's mom. His uncles used to own the mine, they

died and his grandfather got the land and stupid idiot, he sold it. But

before the uncles died, they brought down these huge rocks of this stuff.

Since the mine has been sold, it's been closed for years. Some guy was

allowed to mine x amt of rocks and he took more than allowed, so the owners

closed the mine again and from what I was told, it's not open at all for

several years now. Not even being mined.

 

What we have is is about 50+ years old. We got the biggest one cut at the Az

Mineral Museum last year, took 8 hours to cut thru. Then this jackass of a

governor we have, was going to close the museum, so they cut back on

allowing anyone to have rocks cut, etc. But when there, one of the guys was

showing me how to polish the rocks. He said 'do not throw away even tiny

pieces of this rock, it's that valuable. And you can make all kinds of

things out of small pieces'. So he showed me with this one piece we

polished. Oh, it's Beautiful! Red and yellow and brown. And I want to learn

wire wrapping to do it on that piece to show it off. A piece this size,

which is about .5 to .75 of an inch and about .5 inch wide retails for like

$150!!

 

We've got obsidian in the front yard, along with a huge knot of petrified

wood. I had no idea a lot of people had not seen obsidian before.

 

I have loved rocks all my life. I have picked up smooth stones from the time

I was a kid. Steve too. Weird the things we have in common, something like

that. Aren't a lot of people interested in rocks.

Goodness, I threw away a handful of teeny crystals. There's only so much

rocks you can have and the tiny ones are just too small. Unless you have a

machine that will drill tiny holes in them for tiny beads. Send me your

address if you want any small ones I find. Or I'll keep them for when you

come.

 

So go get a dremel. There are attachments for dremels that are diamond cuts.

those are the ones that you do rocks with. Polishers are expensive. Like

$1500 expensive. and up.

 

guess you might say i like rocks. I want to go to NC, they have emerald

mines there. and arkansas to the crystal mines. And if I have to buy it, I

don't want it. If I hunt, search, dig, find it myself, THEN it's worth

keeping for me.

 

Janine Phariss

www.BlueSageNaturals.com

Fade scars, relieve pain, clear up eczema!

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hey, I'm in Oklahoma and have never visited the

Arkansaw diamond places. I " heard " they were farmed.

About all you can find locally besides sandstone is

roserocks. I happen to live smack dab in the middle

of the rose rock capital of the world, hence the name

for DH's biz roserockdesign.com !!

 

I have a dremel that I use for relief wood carving and

sometimes ostrich eggs. Never thought about using it

on stones!

 

I have a big ole hunk of petrified wood that I use as

a doorstop. I live in a earthshelter that is faced

with rock, and a HUGE rock fireplace. Love that

fireplace.

 

Whenever we even think about looking at houses I don't

seem to like them unless there's some rocks on it

somewhere.

 

When driving down the road, I might say, Oh nice rock

over there!

 

Judy (would love to rockhound with ya someday but for

now biz keeps us here 24-7)

 

Judy

Green Dragon Herbals

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Janine,

A friend of mine bought a tumbler like they sell at Michael's. Said it wasn't

worth the little they paid for it.

Couple of months ago I bought one on ebay. Haven't really had to much of a

chance to use it, I have been going to school, doing a lot of homework, all with

my Therapy dog.

She made it.

The dremel tool sounds like a good idea. I also like to collect rocks.

I've wanted a dremel tool for my husband to do the dogs nails on. Didn't know

what else we could use it on. Now I do thinks he is getting one for sure.

Does it take a lot of strenght to use? That I don't have.

Have fun with your rocks.

Nancy

 

So go get a dremel. There are attachments for dremels that are

diamond cuts.

those are the ones that you do rocks with.

 

 

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