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Thanks Joe - Mookaite
Apr 23rd, 2024 at 1:09pm
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Thanks Joe. I finally decided to cut a piece of the mookaite that you sold to me at the Grassy Creek show in Spruce pine several years ago. Photo'd dry. Longest slab about six inches long.
  
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Re: Thanks Joe - Mookaite
Reply #1 - Apr 23rd, 2024 at 9:26pm
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You're Welcome and Thank You, Rick! Smiley
Glad to see you finally got around to slabbing it! That was quite a while ago. Wink Good looking slabs, lots of yellow. I will be very interested to see what you can do with them! Not sure, but I don't think heat-treating helps that jasper much? It's already very glassy and has a brittle fracture.
I've still got some Mook left, but have decided I won't be getting anymore. It's a very finiky rock fraught with hidden "issues". So, yes, best of luck with it and thanks for the picture. Can't wait to see your progress!
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 24th, 2024 at 10:00am
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A little progress - adding a photo of the preforms (wet). Will get to the end cuts at another time. I will heat treat these in a few weeks along with some FL coral. Temp will go to 450 degrees. Joe, heat treating really works good on the mookaite jasper. I trimmed these to get the cleanest parts I could. The largest and the next two larger ones will be the only ones suitable to make a knife with. Have done three knives from some other mook before. I will update this thread with a finished knife if I am able to produce one from it.
  
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Reply #3 - Today at 6:35pm
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Heat treated the mookaite jasper, kept the high temp at 525 degrees - this is the first blade from the batch.
The base is the chalky cortex part which will go into a knife handle




Finished this knife today. Southern live oak handle, mahogany obsidian blade.
  
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