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Offline jamie

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raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« on: December 18, 2010, 12:25:07 pm »


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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2010, 12:34:33 pm »
Boy, that is whicked looking. Could also be a back scratcher.  ;D  Nice blade!  I've never seen rhyolite that color. The NC stuff is dark gray to green.
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2010, 12:37:02 pm »
thanks pat . i keep calling it rhyolite but i may be wrong. it works like mid grade rhyolite. it comes from argentinia i belive. eddie had a piece a couple years back that was from new mexico that was similar to this.
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2010, 03:11:36 pm »
Wow nice work Jamie I like the color too!

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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2010, 03:52:35 pm »
I LOVE THE COLOR.  Could you show a close up of the blade?
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2010, 05:11:17 pm »
SPEAKING OF WHICH???  Eddie/Mullet what was that red rock u sent me??? It is grainy and also u gave me a speckled kinda sugar quartz I love that stuff I mad a small one to test its flaking.... A great challenge  Thanx!

Sorry for hijacking ur post ...at least we are friends...right >:D ::)

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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2010, 06:49:43 pm »
Nice piece of work Jamie, Ill expect to see a coyote jawbone knife next.  ;D
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2010, 08:10:26 pm »
Jamie, great lookin knife 8)  A friend of mine gave me a piece of rock the same color as your blade an it had a little sticker on it that said "Jasper from Brazil" I t looks to me like some kind of ryolite all most the same texture as that pc that James Parker made the big red blade out of at the classic. Reminds me of a common red brick an man it is hard, hard. :-[ Maybe I can get a picture of it. oh my friend bought the red rock in some rock shop in Colorado. I need to man up an make something out of it ;D Bob

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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2010, 06:55:48 am »
thank you.
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2010, 06:21:00 pm »
good job
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2010, 08:04:08 pm »
 Russ, yes it the same rock as what James used. It is from New Mexico.

Here's the blade, and,, we're friends, too, right Jamie? ;D
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2010, 07:13:49 am »
all you need is love, all you need is love, all you need is love, love, love is all you need. come on friends sing it with me.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: raccoon jaw and rhyolite
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2010, 07:15:11 am »
that definetly looks different than i remember it looking ed. thats some nasty looking rhyolite. ;D
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