{"id":13313,"date":"2022-11-26T01:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2022-11-26T01:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:36:34","slug":"cleaning-and-cutting-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jwjrocks.com\/?p=13313","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning and Cutting in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took some time off in August to get caught up on some cleaning ahead of the Labor Day trip, so I could take some beautiful calcite clusters out there with me. I also rented a tabletop wet tile saw from a friend of mine, who has an equipment rental business, rented it for the entire weekend for less than a hundred bucks. Came in the form of a mitre saw…think it works better on lumber…despite my best attempts to lock it down into place, it kept raising up on me…<\/p>\n

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Something else these saws need, is a guide and vise, one that securely holds what you are cutting and doesnt vary from the course, which is, or should be, straight ahead….something to work on in the future.<\/p>\n

I thought I did pretty good for a first timer with a wet tile saw…<\/p>\n

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after cutting this one open, I thought I had a colorful egg half, but the yellow came off with paint thinner, turns out it was off the side of the diamond blade. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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have great color and pattern on these two halves, but couldnt finish the cut all the way thru, prob gonna be a bear to fix these, too.<\/p>\n

Many, many moons ago, as a youngster, I had a six inch Lortone Rock Saw, my parents bought it for me for Christmas one year, had it for a few years…enjoyed it, but I dont think anyone realized how noisy those things could get…it was in our utility room off the garage, right next to my Dad`s home office. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I was limited after that as to when I could use it and for how long. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The last weekend of August I was able to clean up some beautiful poker chips encased in the gorgeous red calcite druse from a few pockets I found back in mid January at MFQ, and put them in flats to take to Kentucky with me….<\/p>\n

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…that was almost as much fun as it was finding them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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