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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3751296" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Spending a couple months in Arizona this winter I discovered the lapidary shop. Very well equipped.</p><p>Always been an amateur rock hound and Arizona is not short of rocks in the Sonoran Desert around the Superstition Mountains.</p><p>On a hike through the desert found a couple of interesting rocks that we put in a rock saw and cut slabs.</p><p>One was what the experts called a blood rock because it’s final color resembles dried blood. Also had some fossils in it for character.</p><p>The other was a milky quartz with iron impurities.</p><p>First was the blood rock on a fillet knife of 440C stainless blank</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]261853[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261849[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261850[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261854[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261857[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Second and third were also blanks, one Damascus and the other a fillet knife.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]261858[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261859[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261857[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261858[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]261859[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3751296, member: 5412"] Spending a couple months in Arizona this winter I discovered the lapidary shop. Very well equipped. Always been an amateur rock hound and Arizona is not short of rocks in the Sonoran Desert around the Superstition Mountains. On a hike through the desert found a couple of interesting rocks that we put in a rock saw and cut slabs. One was what the experts called a blood rock because it’s final color resembles dried blood. Also had some fossils in it for character. The other was a milky quartz with iron impurities. First was the blood rock on a fillet knife of 440C stainless blank [ATTACH type="full" alt="211D865F-F7F4-4710-93F5-407AD908FB2A.jpeg"]261853[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="FE59F6F0-5EBC-4353-B905-5F51EE13B7F8.jpeg"]261849[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="0C400CE6-417E-4274-BC7D-217BC3D29ACF.jpeg"]261850[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="871E3AFB-0F32-4674-ACCC-D660DCD8C816.jpeg"]261854[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="48B36004-F0C7-4C1D-A84D-81DE4CA7A917.jpeg"]261857[/ATTACH] Second and third were also blanks, one Damascus and the other a fillet knife. [ATTACH type="full" alt="526DB0DA-20B4-4B33-93CB-F65834673714.jpeg"]261858[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="958829E6-1819-4E54-A76B-C7D6B22326C5.jpeg"]261859[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="48B36004-F0C7-4C1D-A84D-81DE4CA7A917.jpeg"]261857[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="526DB0DA-20B4-4B33-93CB-F65834673714.jpeg"]261858[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" alt="958829E6-1819-4E54-A76B-C7D6B22326C5.jpeg"]261859[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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