Post #375748 by Paipo on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 5:23 PM

T - Local? Most likely...it was in a big bucket o' stone which mostly came from "up the road" somewhere. Plenty of granite rolling out of the creeks up Pakiroa way. It kind of is meant to be an eggcup of sorts, but it also looks like an egg! I've always liked the quartz /pounamu combo, though most stones are too bright and white. No strings attached - after consultation with the new owner, we decided to keep it simple. This should look pretty good sitting on a windowsill somewhere!

Ben, granite is usually easy to work (particularly the black stuff used commercially for monuments and benchtops) but this one took way longer than planned - it's more of a quartz pebble really, which is always hard work to drill out and really takes it out of the toolz. I use very little quartz for this reason, even though it is one of the nicer looking stones to be found here.