Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80s

[utah hunter]

Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

I will be posting more rocks today. I have been going through them today and thought I would share. I don't know every rock in this table. The dinosaur bone, petrified wood, wonderstone, turquoise, septarian nodules, agate, and sandstone are ones that I am sure of. The table is 18 inches by 32 inches.

 

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[Cynangyl]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

All kinds of pretties and already prelicked too! Very cool that you managed to inherit something your grandpa put so much time and heart into! Take very good care of it!

 

[utah hunter]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

All kinds of pretties and already prelicked too! Very cool that you managed to inherit something your grandpa put so much time and heart into! Take very good care of it!

Thanks, I do consider myslef lucky. He owned a rockshop in Richfield Utah and we would go out in the desert rockhunting all the time. I am the only grandkid out of many that truly loved the rocks, so I have inherited some things with the promise the other grandkids wouldn't know...

 

[Cynangyl]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

well hopefully they don't read tnet then! I think it is awesome you had those memories of sharing a pastime with your grandpa. I sure miss mine and am very lucky to have spent a lot of time with him!

 

[Mental Granny]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Beautiful table really beautiful!

 

[ashleen]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

That is so cool!
Truly, a family treasure

hmm.......... now i wanna do something with my rocks.

 

[utah hunter]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Thanks everyone, I do consider it a treasure. The hard part will be figuring out which of my 5 kids will inherit it. Since I am only 39 I guess I have a while to figure it out...

 

[nhbenz]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Wow! Very nice table. -Looking forward to the other rocks in your collection.

 

[aa battery]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

very nice

 

[Mental Granny]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Give it time you will KNOW just like your grandpa did WHO it should go to! It might be one of your gandkids!

 

[Kneedeep]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Hello, Totally neat!
Do you know if he cut & polished the rocks himself? Would love to be able to do that!

Thanks
Mark

 

[utah hunter]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

Hello, Totally neat!
Do you know if he cut & polished the rocks himself? Would love to be able to do that!

Thanks
Mark

Not only did he cut and polish the rocks himself, he found every one of those rocks himself. He owned a rock shop in Richfield, UT and would spend time out in the desert finding specimens. I spent a lot of time in the hills with him, and that is why I inherited the table.

 

[DesertWalker]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

That is "flippin' way cool", as they say in Utah. Was he an arrowhead hunter also?

 

[utah hunter]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

That is "flippin' way cool", as they say in Utah. Was he an arrowhead hunter also?

He did hunt arrowheads, and had a collection of a few hundred. He sold them a few years before he died. The Anasazi prayer shawl he had is now in a museum. That was his best find and I felt honored to have held it in my hands.

His main hunting was rocks for his shop and to sell in Quartzite. The arrowheads would be found by accident, but then he would spend a little time looking around for more before focusing back on the rocks.

 

[PALEOMAN]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

thank you for sharing this treasure!

 

[pronghorn]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

I will be posting more rocks today. I have been going through them today and thought I would share. I don't know every rock in this table. The dinosaur bone, petrified wood, wonderstone, turquoise, septarian nodules, agate, and sandstone are ones that I am sure of. The table is 18 inches by 32 inches.

Very nice!!!
Can you or anyone tell me what the rocks are held together with/how the table top was made. What bonds this into one solid piece, cement, epoxy
I would like to try to make something like this.
Thanks

 

[utah hunter]

Re: Rock Table I inherited, my Grandpa made it in the 80's

I will be posting more rocks today. I have been going through them today and thought I would share. I don't know every rock in this table. The dinosaur bone, petrified wood, wonderstone, turquoise, septarian nodules, agate, and sandstone are ones that I am sure of. The table is 18 inches by 32 inches.

Very nice!!!
Can you or anyone tell me what the rocks are held together with/how the table top was made. What bonds this into one solid piece, cement, epoxy
I would like to try to make something like this.
Thanks

Here are some extra pics to hopefully help you see a little more of it's construction. The table weighs 25 pounds. I did see him making one, and will tell you what I remember. He laid down the top, which in this case is a hard plastic. He had a metal frame he tightened around the top piece, and it was about 2 inches high so he could build the back of the table up in this frame. We know now glass would have been better for the top, plastic tends to crack over time if you are not careful. He then laid the slabs of the rocks face down directly on the plastic top in the same pattern he had laid them out in his shop. He then put broken glass of different color and broken up rock in between the rock slabs to spice it up a little more. He then put epoxy over the back of the slabs and the glass and made sure it mixed in with the glass pieces. This is all I saw, we had to leave his shop, the fumes were making us punchy
You can see from the pics the wood he used to fill most of the back. Hopefully this info and the pictures help a little bit.