Thread: How About Those Garnets

Since we all like to talk about our hones and we talk about garnets I thought I'd show you some of mine:

Dodecahedrons- Iron Garnets from Roxbury, Connecticut but don't try to hone with them. They're too big.

I think those are the ones I needed on that last freakin' wedge!

Nice find! What are you going to do with them?

What grit are those garnets? Could I use them for bevel setting?

Originally Posted by 0livia

Nice find! What are you going to do with them?

I have a pretty big mineral collection and those are the iron garnets from the collection which I collected myself around 35 years ago. I probably have 5 or 6 different types of garnets.

Aaaah!
Then you might eventually be interested to see this page.

Just scroll down!

Be cool to do up/decorate some scales with smaller slices of a stone like that...no?

Mac

Originally Posted by McWolf1969

Be cool to do up/decorate some scales with smaller slices of a stone like that...no?

Mac

Well, I guess you could but those particular ones are pretty ugly. There are others which are just nicer colors and that are translucent to transparent.

That's the kind of garnet crystal I use when doing demos of coticules. Got mine in a rock shop in Arizona and it fills my hand. It's a rhombic dodecahedron all right! The CAD-style pic on a few websites has it being an orthorhombic dodecahron and I haven't seen one of those in the flesh.

Originally Posted by Howard

That's the kind of garnet crystal I use when doing demos of coticules. Got mine in a rock shop in Arizona and it fills my hand. It's a rhombic dodecahedron all right! The CAD-style pic on a few websites has it being an orthorhombic dodecahron and I haven't seen one of those in the flesh.

I have a small demantoid garnet and it has a really weird xtl habit. I still haven't figured it all out yet.