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Fire Drop; sterling silver, ocean jasper, and fire agate.
The fire agate has a medium fire to it, with a nice flash of green and a slight red. This was cut from some rough mined by Mark Anderson and Jessica Dow of ~jessa1155 . I then bored a hole in the ocean jasper leaving a slight taper to the hole, so that the agate could slip in, and I filled in the back with an epoxy. The metalwork on the face is riveted to the stone to frame the agate. I am fascinated with how some folklores grew from like myths; such as the raven in the indigenous tribes of the Puget Sound area had a story of a raven being tricked into dropping fire to the earth for man to use. Prometheus dropped fire in the midst of tricking Zeus. Thus, giving mankind fire. Most myths pertaining to fire, say that it was dropped to earth. But, the stone that to me looks the most like a satellite map of the Earth is this jasper, which ironically is the "ocean" variety, giving it a play on fire and water, especially with the droplet shape of the cab. Pictured here is just the pendant, but Lora will be stringing this one with a very good quality bronze freshwater pearl. Which will add to the fire/water them of this work. I hope that you enjoy. Please feel free to comment  Comments
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-- Michael of Cosmic Folklore Studios Thanks!!!
-- Michael of Cosmic Folklore Studios  I'm fascinated by your choice of stone! Why fire agate that flashes green and some red? Why not an orange carnelian or a red Tennessee agate? Your choices always seem to work (I guess that is the benefit of a BFA!).
Do the rivets go all the way through? I pounded some silver into a beach stone (Michigan basalt) once, but some of the "posts" came out over time. I started with the stone and the design followed
These fire agates end up being the shape of chewed up bubble gum. So, it is tough coming up with a good design for them. This one, I have rounded off. Most lapidaries might cringe, because of the loss of carats, but what good is carats, if you can't use the thing. The rivets are also reinforced with gem grade adhesives. But, I suppose with time anything can come apart. Even prongs come loose. But, this glue is what was suggested to me by some of the best lapidaries for a variety of applications, Epoxy 330. -- Michael of Cosmic Folklore Studios I have a fire agate in a box with one face polished. It looks great! I don't recall it being sold by the carat, so it must be semi-precious agate. 330 is optical grade from Loctite right? I see syringes of that stuff in the lab all the time.
Hmmm, not sure if it is carats or grams in which the agates are more commonly sold. The salmon pinkish colored stones sold as fire agates in bead shops are being made to change the names to crab agates or some other name. Fire agates are not regulated, but GIA is trying to control the labels anyway. The demand for these stones is getting tight. I was lucky enough to get some rough from Mark.
The glue is just called Epoxy 330. You can get it at several jewelry or lapidary companies, such as [link]  roduct_info& roducts_id=5149I haven't heard of this one. What kind of lab? -- Michael of Cosmic Folklore Studios ...an engineering lab for micro total analysis systems (uTAS) and other stuff from the other world you so frequently describe.
The rare stone sells, but I have to remind myself that we sit on a giant rock with new and interesting discoveries waiting to be unearthed. |
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