Just wanted to share these pics :)

[stdenis_jd]

After the rough shaping, not polished or pre-polished:


After polish, all dry


The white with red jaspers is a jasper conglomerate a.k.a. Drummond Island Puddingstone
Black are mahogany obsidian
green with black stripes is likely hornfels, polished nice but the design was kind of boring so I didn't put it in the pic (it was a test-run, didn't put any thought into the shape)
green/blue is chrysocolla
pink/purple is kona dolomite

Just getting my feet wet in lapidary so still have a lot of work to do to get where I want to be, but overall pretty happy with the results. Just wanted to share!

 

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[DakotaBirder]

I literally just started myself, just got a couple of Lortone tumblers, working on agates, jaspers, rose quartz, and petrified wood from here in South Dakota. Very cool to see pics like this, and know what's possible!! :-)

 

[IAMZIM]

Really like the obsidian pieces!

 

[stdenis_jd]

Really like the obsidian pieces!

Thanks man, it was quite a surprise...I got a slab from a rock shop not thinking it would be anything too special. I cut the shapes out and by the time I got to about 1200 grit I started seeing the layering and shimmer underlying the top colors and patterns. Definitely not a fan at all of snowflake obsidian, matter of fact I think it's downright ugly, but mahogany just became one of my favorites. That stuff in sunlight is amazing with a good polish!

 

[MartyRocks]

Very nice! Good job.

I love it when I find stuff like that in the desert or mountains....
that turn out to look like that with a little cutting, shaping and polishing!

 

[Mrdigz]

Awesome! Nice work!

 

[astralea1692]

Awesome!!!