Post #396184 by kiwishaman on Thu, Jul 24, 2008 2:51 AM

Greencarving - thanks for your encouragement.

ok - first of that group finished sanding - just need to make the cord and toggle . . .

front:

back - kinda looks opalised? a bit like labradorite, but without the colours . . .

and from the botton - showing the scarey crack that became glaringly apparent as i sanded:

not sure what it is - pounamu - but maybe serpentine rather than neprite? Though it cracks and flakes off like the stuff i bought as NZ green neprite last year. . . it has a beautiful blue through it.

will try and get some daylight shots tomorrow - to show the translucency that this stone has

to show translucency - not as much as i thought - but a very interesting piece of stone. . .

I can see i should have made the inner hole thinner - to show off the translucency of the stone - shame i gave up on that too soon. (the stone is damn hard, and took forever just to carve away that hole!!)

happy happy happy (sorry Benz for stealing your line - but thats the way i feel - at least till the crack breaks off!!)

thanks for looking

KS

[ Edited by: kiwishaman 2008-07-24 13:02 ]