Tumbled Rocks 3-8-2010

March 9, 2010

Tumble Rocks in Heart Shaped Dish from Dollar Store

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Rockhounding in Idaho BLM Publication

March 4, 2010

Download the printable publication from the BLM here.
Rockhounding in Idaho BLM Publication

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Where Can I Find Used Equipment?

February 12, 2010

Many of the comments, emails and searches this site receives asks the question “where can I find a used…” Almost every day somebody does a Google search for “used lapidary saw” and ends up here. This post will address that question.

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College of Idaho Museums

January 21, 2010

At the college of Idaho there is an incredible gem and mineral collection.  I first saw the collection on a field trip with a geology class I was taking at Boise State University.  At the time I was not a rock hound yet so the thought of photographing it never occurred to me.  Since becoming [...]

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Repairing the Slab Saw

January 12, 2010

When I purchased my used 16” slab saw the blade that came with it was not in the best of shape. I knew that I was going to have to replace it in the near future. Back in November I was cutting some Cripple Creek Jasper when a piece broke off and became [...]

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Tumbled Cabochons December 2009

December 28, 2009

Tumbled Cabochons December 2009

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Displaying Tumbled Rocks

December 1, 2009

As we looked at many of the dishes I found that each dish contained a certain type of rock or rocks from a specific location. I found this method of displaying rocks to visually appealing.

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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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