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to the dude who i think made everyone stone 'crazy' on TC:
Your work is 'crazy' and makes me wish I held onto and started using my grandfathers lapidary equipment!! I had no room for it...( I know who has it, I think). My grandfather that I mention in the TikiMag cover article, was also a rock hound. He was an award winning silver smith and stone guy (hobby). Fantastic designer of Men's and Women's jewelry in every stone there is. Most of the rock he collected himself on trips to the southwest US during summer trips down Rout 66 from Chicago. My grandparents house, and my own house, growing up looked like a museum of natural history with all the 'rocks & mineral' display cabinets... fossils, and dried sea life too, even a casting of a dinosaur foot print from Utah. I'd be taken myself to see the footprints in Utah when it seemed I was much older like 9 or 10 years of age.
Back in the early 90's when my folks where deciding what to do with the old equipment, I thought of all the cool stuff to make, and was sick about not taking it, along with the pounds (tons) of stone. However, I've yet to use any of the pounds of what I did take, Apache Tears!, tumbled Obsidian (volcanic glass). Polished an intense shinny black, they're a smokey green when held to the light. Someday, someday, I'll carve or cast something for these to be set in... someday.
Ooooo... maybe there is a commission here? Apache Tears from Arizona carved in the Islands... for me....from AZ! hmmmmm....
any way, I really applaud your work and appreciate it. My Grandpa would be proud! all I really wanted to say before TC fearer took over, was...
Rocks Rule!!
[ Edited by: crazy al 2008-02-07 09:52 ]
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