Post #273806 by tikigap on Tue, Dec 19, 2006 8:12 PM

On 2006-12-19 11:59, Paipo wrote:
Hey gap
If you have a look on page 7 you'll see some pics of the beaches I fossick and the stone I use. It's greywacke, which is a hardened sandstone, and can be found all over the world. I see Benz and Amy are using "river stone" for the garden which looks similar, however the ones I get are very carefully picked for colour, shape, consistency and hardness so they'll take the detail required. There is a huge variation in quality amongst this stone.

Wow... that's right - it;'s been a long time since I've been looking way back at page 7.

Those beaches are great for stone - obviously! It's really cool that you can still
just find jade on the beach. And the greywacke - I've seen those rounded stones
around before, in the States on Oregon's Pacific beaches. I now live on the other coast now, the Atlantic, so I don't know where a beach like that is nearby. There probaly isn't one - they are all populated with McDonalds and Wal-Marts.

The skulleater on p7 is insane! Would you make on for me? I'll PM you on that.

Thanks for the info...

gap