This is a very nice display piece that I really struggled to get decent photos of. It's a much nicer piece than I think the photos managed to capture. It's a truly gorgeous, very solid, free standing petrified wood sculpture we've crafted from a gem grade fossil conifer log that was dug near Mt. Adams in the state of Washington. This wood came to us as part of the Beck collection and it is the first time I've ever had the pleasure of cutting stone from this site. I was blown away by the gemmy herring bone wood grain revealed in the rip cut face of this very agatized wood. I love the beautifully gemmy wood grain in the mirror polished face as much as I do the natural texture of this ancient conifer log shown on the top, back and sides! I really like the way this one turned out - it's quite dramatic and the polish this wood achieves simply has to be seen to be believed. It's very gemmy and glass like but the wood growth structure is so visible you would still think it was a tree!! The picture doesn't do this one justice so I'm confident you're in for a very pleasant surprise when you open this package. We polished the display face to the kind of mirror finish our shop is famous for and it really turned out well! The other side and back were left rough and natural, just as the stone was found. The wood color is rich and beautiful and the stone exhibits a very glossy polish coaxed from the cut face to reveal all of the color and growth features from this ancient gem fossil. This is a conifer, likely an ancient sequoia. It stands as shown in the photo, ready for your desk or mantle. The exterior texture is rough and natural as excavated, while the faces are cut and polished to a mirror finish to reveal the treasure contained within.
Here's a nice petrified wood standup specimen from our neighboring state, Washington. Washington has a few nice petrified wood deposits, but the most productive is undoubtedly the Saddle Mtn. dig site. The Saddle Mtn. wood is sort of a cross between what you'll find on the McDonald Ranch and McDermitt here in Oregon. The wood grain is typically very well preserved in a combination of gold, white, coffee and cream colors, like the McDermitt wood, but it's got a really high opal content like the McDonald Ranch wood does, particularly near the rind of the log. The opal content makes it a bit more challenging to get a good polish on, but this piece really shined up beautifully. The rings are really well preserved in this one and under magnification you can see clearly it is a conifer without resin canals.
This is a standup specimen, which means we've cut the base flat so that it will stand on its own for display. It's a pretty showy one too.
This piece stands about 15 1/8" tall and measures a little over 2 1/2" thick at the base. Weight is 12.28 lbs.
This pillar shaped display piece was cut at a steep sloping angle and then polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. The base is cut flat so that you can present it nicely without a stand and show it off on a bookshelf or table. It took a beautiful polish, it really does look like a mirror! It's another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over!
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
Here's a nice petrified wood standup specimen from our neighboring state, Washington. Washington has a few nice petrified wood deposits, but the most productive is undoubtedly the Saddle Mtn. dig site. The Saddle Mtn. wood is sort of a cross between what you'll find on the McDonald Ranch and McDermitt here in Oregon. The wood grain is typically very well preserved in a combination of gold, white, coffee and cream colors, like the McDermitt wood, but it's got a really high opal content like the McDonald Ranch wood does, particularly near the rind of the log. The opal content makes it a bit more challenging to get a good polish on, but this piece really shined up beautifully. The rings are really well preserved in this one and under magnification you can see clearly it is a conifer without resin canals.
This is a standup specimen, which means we've cut the base flat so that it will stand on its own for display. It's a pretty showy one too.
This piece stands about 15 1/8" tall and measures a little over 2 1/2" thick at the base. Weight is 12.28 lbs.
This pillar shaped display piece was cut at a steep sloping angle and then polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. The base is cut flat so that you can present it nicely without a stand and show it off on a bookshelf or table. It took a beautiful polish, it really does look like a mirror! It's another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over!
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.