My first pieces . . . and pekapeka updates - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 3:05 PM On 2008-07-10 12:17, kiwishaman wrote: Nearly finished - scritchy scraching out the tool marks - and something dreadful happened - you can see the evidence in these pics taken after the fact . . . Ahh, the old forgot-it-was-wrapped-up-in-the-towel-and-shook-the-towel blunder: unlucky.. It was looking good too. Thats an oddly 'clean' break for nephrite; is it 'Aussie Black' jade? There was some debate as to the structure of this stone when a local supplier started importing this stuff (despite having all the right 'ingredients' to be regarded as jade some insist that the 'felted' nephritic structure is missing - hence it isnt as strong as it could be.. The matau's looking good - be careful with it! :wink:

On 2008-07-10 12:17, kiwishaman wrote:

Nearly finished - scritchy scraching out the tool marks - and something dreadful happened - you can see the evidence in these pics taken after the fact . . .

Ahh, the old forgot-it-was-wrapped-up-in-the-towel-and-shook-the-towel blunder: unlucky.. It was looking good too. Thats an oddly 'clean' break for nephrite; is it 'Aussie Black' jade? There was some debate as to the structure of this stone when a local supplier started importing this stuff (despite having all the right 'ingredients' to be regarded as jade some insist that the 'felted' nephritic structure is missing - hence it isnt as strong as it could be..

The matau's looking good - be careful with it! :wink:

Post #393084 by Tamapoutini on Thu, Jul 10, 2008 3:05 PM