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Super Sunday Cabbing

07 Feb 2011 Leave a comment

by Raquel in cabbing, wire weaved pendants Tags: cab, cabbing, chrysocolla, drusy, druzy, pendant, quartz, queensland agate, silver, wire weaving, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant, wire wrapping, wirewrapp

Super Bowl Sunday, and I get to cab til the game starts. Thats a wonderful day!.

I cabbed a small piece of Chrysocolla drusy that as left from a piece of stone I won on the Taogem forum. It had some amazing blue green or teal colored druse and dark green malachite druse. Its from Nuevo Mundo Imports. I highly recommend them if you want the best chrysocolla and malachite drusy. The crystals are so clear and shiny. Awesome stuff. Its pricey but you get what you pay for. I also cabbed another quartz drusy cab.

I also cabbed a Queensland agate. The Queensland agate has some very nice patterning and layers, plus a little drusy in the middle. Love it!

The icing on the cake?
Green bay won! yay!!

14 Feb 2010 Leave a comment

by Raquel in Holiday, Poppy Jasper Tags: agate, bog, chrysocolla, druzy, green, lapidary, malachite, Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, petrified palmwood, psilomane, queensland agate, rocks, slabbing

The sun decided to make an appearance mid morning and made for a great day to cut some stone. This is something I love to do. I was planning on cutting the malachite end of the druzy but found some Morgan Hill poppy jasper, script stone, agate and some green stone that I’m thinking is a petrified bog. It has some awesome greens in it, and takes a great shine. I kept finding stuff I’ve been wanting to cut or polish, so rocks just kept jumping into my hands. Ok so I finally got the saw out and cut it up here are some pics of what I ended up with.