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, rip cut display specimen of petrified wood that 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 longer 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. There is a nice knot revealed in the cut near the top edge as well. 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 back and short ends are cut smooth and flat but otherwise unfinished while the top and bottom edge show the rough texture of the stone as it was found in the ground. 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.
Here's a nice petrified wood, rip cut specimen from Washington. Washington state 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 thick solid slab cut from the center of the log and polished in our shop to a mirror finish on the photographed face of the slab. It's high silica content means that it polished to a mirror finish!
This thick slab measures about 16 3/8" x 7 1/8" and is cut about 0.93" thick. Weight is 8.26 lbs.
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
Here's a nice petrified wood, rip cut specimen from Washington. Washington state 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 thick solid slab cut from the center of the log and polished in our shop to a mirror finish on the photographed face of the slab. It's high silica content means that it polished to a mirror finish!
This thick slab measures about 16 3/8" x 7 1/8" and is cut about 0.93" thick. Weight is 8.26 lbs.
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.