![]() ![]() I have used this method of buying for MANY valuable and profitable items in the last 30 years. Lather rinse repeat until they decide to sell. Then re-iterate your offer, making it good for another 12 months. Put it in your calendar to call then in two months. ![]() When they turn you down, then ask them to keep your number stating the offer is good for a year. Call them back, make them your most generous offer and ask them to re-consider. It may take two or three iterations before they reach real market value. In the present case the stone can sit in the backyard and when they get re-motivated to sell they will re-think price. I am totally comfortable with having taken care of my friend's daughter in this manner. That made the headache of making it happen for the animal's and the family's sake worthwhile (but not extra profitable). Truthfully, I bought the collection for $0.20 on the dollar. The ability to make that happen must have some discount value as does simply buying a HUUUUGE volume. Dad is dead and the ENTIRE collection needed rapid liquidation. The daughter felt she had $60,000 worth of animals. His daughter was basing her asking price on conversations she had with dad. Polishing any further with compounds will work, but there may be small pits in this material, and cerium oxide will fill in these spots and not leave an achieved look, so finishing on the resin wheels is usually preferred.I once bought a deceased friend's reptile collection. However, I personally like to go one step further to a 50k grit wheel to obtain the highest polish I can. For most set-ups, which usually end at 14k grit wheels, this will leave you with a beautifully polished poppy jasper cab. After this stage, moving onto the soft resin 280 grit wheel will be used to sand smooth and be the start of the polishing process rather than the sanding process.įrom this point on, continue your usual process. ![]() Then by moving onto a 220 soft resin wheel instead of steel, it will smooth the cab completely out and remove all remaining scratches and any flat spots that may have been left from the steel wheels. The 180 grit steel will easily remove deep scratches and will grind smoothly. Once you have shaped your cab on the 80 grit wheel and started the dome, I usually suggest a 180 grit steel diamond wheel, then move to a 220 soft resin, or 280 if that’s what your set-up is. Starting on an 80 grit should be OK, but be gentle when shaping your preform as it will tend to chip the outer back edge. When starting to cab this material, be cautious of using course grit wheels. It’s better to find out if your material will break before starting the cabbing process then in the middle after you have put a significant amount of work into your piece. ![]() For the areas with cracks that are visible, I will try even harder to see if those will break off. I usually try and flex each slab to see if there are any weak areas or fractures that aren’t visible. Among Morgan Hill, Stony Creek, and a few other California poppy jaspers, Hornitos usually is the most solid of them all, but bench testing each slab for fractures is always best before proceeding to cut your preform cabs on the trim saw. So before attempting to load the stone into your saw, you may want to find these fracture zones and cut along them in the same direction to get the most solid slabs. Generally, these fractures usually run in one direction. The surface will dry first, leaving moisture in the cracks and making more visible to the naked eye areas that you probably didn’t see a fracture before. For best results, rinse off the material and take it into a well-lit area and watch as it dries. When cutting this material from rough stone to slabs, it’s always best to rinse the material and look for any fracture zones in the stone. What is also similar is the fact that this jasper can be very fractured at times, which means cutting this material can have a few pitfalls. Though the locales are 125 miles apart, the combinations of red, orange, yellow, and white orbs are very similar. Hornitos poppy jasper is often mistaken for Morgan Hill poppy jasper. Even though there’s not much to be found in nature anymore, it can still be found at rock shops, shows, and online. Hornitos has a vast BLM land area to rockhound in, much of it either has claims on it, or the area has been picked over pretty thoroughly over the years. Hornitos, California, is a mid-1800s Old Western gold mining town nestled in the rolling foothills just north of Mariposa and near Yosemite, and home to many varieties of orbicular jaspers. ![]()
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