MetaMoosehead
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Rocks are hot. I have saws. Geology and lapidary.
Up top: two peices from this weekend. Left is cut from an ingot of bronze smelted with turquoise. Right is a white moss agate, mostly for contrast. Underneath, for fun, is Fulgurite. Fulgurite is the metamorphic result of a lightning strike on sand.
January 28, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Up top: two peices from this weekend. Left is cut from an ingot of bronze smelted with turquoise. Right is a white moss agate, mostly for contrast. Underneath, for fun, is Fulgurite. Fulgurite is the metamorphic result of a lightning strike on sand.
Dendritic Opal pendant (and source rock)
December 3, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Dendritic Opal pendant (and source rock)
Dendritic Opal pendant, cut by me.
November 17, 2023 at 7:33 PM
Dendritic Opal pendant, cut by me.
On the cutting menu tonight: Dendritic Opal.
November 10, 2023 at 12:21 AM
On the cutting menu tonight: Dendritic Opal.
Lace agate pendant from the previous rock.
October 19, 2023 at 7:31 PM
Lace agate pendant from the previous rock.
A lace agate I am cutting tonight. It has a few fractures, but there is plenty of beautiful material to work with.
October 17, 2023 at 1:48 AM
A lace agate I am cutting tonight. It has a few fractures, but there is plenty of beautiful material to work with.
A Seam Agate (my daughter loves to call them Sea Maggots). It reminded me of the human heart.
Crusty and fractured, but inherently beautiful.
Crusty and fractured, but inherently beautiful.
October 16, 2023 at 8:09 PM
A Seam Agate (my daughter loves to call them Sea Maggots). It reminded me of the human heart.
Crusty and fractured, but inherently beautiful.
Crusty and fractured, but inherently beautiful.
A tube agate scrap that wasn’t going to make the cut for the tumbler. It was too pitted, which causes grit contamination stage to stage. But I loved the stone, so I gave it a hand polish.
The “tubes” in a tube agate form along cylindrical, string-like inclusions, causing the “eyes” you see here.
The “tubes” in a tube agate form along cylindrical, string-like inclusions, causing the “eyes” you see here.
October 13, 2023 at 4:13 PM
A tube agate scrap that wasn’t going to make the cut for the tumbler. It was too pitted, which causes grit contamination stage to stage. But I loved the stone, so I gave it a hand polish.
The “tubes” in a tube agate form along cylindrical, string-like inclusions, causing the “eyes” you see here.
The “tubes” in a tube agate form along cylindrical, string-like inclusions, causing the “eyes” you see here.
This rock goes by the trade name “Kambala Jasper”, but is in fact not a Jasper, but an unusual (and slightly mysterious) metavolcanic rock. It is found in only one place in the world: Bongolava Madagascar.
October 10, 2023 at 2:07 PM
This rock goes by the trade name “Kambala Jasper”, but is in fact not a Jasper, but an unusual (and slightly mysterious) metavolcanic rock. It is found in only one place in the world: Bongolava Madagascar.