Cleaning a Rock Saw

November 18, 2009

There is one chore that every rock hound who owns a saw dreads and that is cleaning their saw.  Whatever you call it; rock snot, rock stuff or sludge the oil and cutting debris needs to be removed from the saw once in a while.  After prolonged cutting the sludge in the bottom of the [...]

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Lunch with Philip Stephenson

November 12, 2009

A couple weeks ago  I had the opportunity to have lunch with Philip Stephenson.  Philip is the owner of the web site Rare Rock And Gems.com.  At this website you can find some the most outstanding Morrisonite and Willow Creek Japer.  Some of you might be familiar with some of the Morrisonite in Philip’s collection [...]

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A New Slab Saw

October 20, 2009

Shortly after starting rock hounding I purchased a used ten inch trim saw to cut my rocks.  After cleaning up that saw and adding an auto feed from another ten inch saw I had a pretty good saw for cutting.  The only problem was I couldn’t cut a lot of the materials I brought home.  [...]

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Searching for Jasper in the Owyhee Mountains

October 15, 2009

Saturday evening Jason called asking if I wanted to join him and Tony on a search for jasper in the Owyhee Mountains the next morning.  I had already made plans to move some unused furniture to my storage unit but that had to be postponed.  There were many trips to search for jasper this past [...]

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Carey – Muldoon Field Trip

October 2, 2009

About a month ago a friend at work told me about an Idaho Gem Club field trip to Carey, Idaho to search for moss agate.  I thought that it would be nice to go to the East to collect rocks so I sent an email to my friend Tony in Gooding, Idaho asking if he [...]

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A Sad Day for Pebblepup

September 30, 2009

The dog, Skeeter, in the logo for this site was my favorite of three dogs. Skeeter was almost 13 years old and had been having some problems over the past six months and had been getting worse the past few weeks. Wednesday my wife came home from work to find that Skeeter [...]

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What happened to August?

September 4, 2009

I can hardly believe that August is gone and I had not posted anything all month.  At the end of July I was looking forward to many posts since I had plans for many rock hounding adventures in August.  Some of the adventures happened but along the way life threw every curve ball possible at [...]

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Spider Man Jasper

July 21, 2009

A week ago Monday I went to visit my friends Bruce and Nancy and they gave me a piece of jasper they had recently found.  None of us had seen this jasper before.  The jasper is mainly black except for red lines that are spread out like spider webs.  It is very close to a [...]

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Tumbler Troubles

July 13, 2009

For a while now I have been noticing a soft spot forming on the bottom of one of my three pound tumbling barrels.   Normally I check my tumblers often so I wasn’t worried about the spot breaking because I thought that I would have caught the issue before it came to that. However a few [...]

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Elkins Gem Stones

July 10, 2009

A while back a friend of mine told me about a rock shop in Prineville, Oregon that had huge piles of quality rock starting at ten cents a pound.  This sounded unbelievable to me because the best shop I knew of before this started a dollar a pound and most shops I have visited start [...]

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