Shain Mayer

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My Old Band is opening for the Rev, Both are very good bands. I have yet to attend any of my old band's shows since they reformed without me. Though my spite is long over, This is the first event/gig they've done, or are doing that really perks my interests. So i gotta get out there and pay me dues and kick some puckgrassers in the balls!

74 Years Ago, Henry Ford Predicted Hemp Cars

And read this one too:
Fords Hemp Car

Found this piece in my old boxed collection yesterday. I don't know who made it or when. It looks like Mexican fire abate and the silver is blue rather nicely. I wonder if that blue was purposeful, or there because if time and weather. It was stored in a box outside.
Shain

I think 25 orders is my limit for weekly shipping, But all orders are going out today; Monday. My policy is monday only shipping to save hassle at the post office. But i really haven't been a full blown shipper in quite some time. So things might have changed. But we all know too well the USPS.  But they do offer the best rate for the type of shipping i prefer. That leaves only one week left till i remove my Blind pick Flat rate deal for $10. Thats cheaper then what i would offer you to pick the rough yourself and not have to hassle with shipping. Plus, i am the one picking your rough. Though i am still young, i have a well trained eye for cabochon rough. And man do i have a heck allot still! Anyway, i have started more inventory into the store. But will always take requests. If i have it i will list it, if i dont, you most likely will not hear from me. Sign up with google and you can follow and comment on any post/blog here.

Jerry Garcia Movie Script, Director Announced

Biggs Jasper Sold Cabochon

The Reverb Music player is working, and you can listen to songs i recorded myself here on the blog. Or at this link with Reverbnation.  Right now its only Banjo music.

http://www.reverbnation.com/shainmayer

Meteorite Impact Crater Found with Google Earth : Discovery News

Earth Fossil Find May Lead to Martian Discoveries : Discovery News

come on, this is givin. But how do you conserve water? I started this year, during most of the year i am not running water into my Evap cooler. Since i work nights and sleep during the day. A/c in the bedroom, the rest of the house suffers. No evap(which doesn't really matter during the monsoon anyway) I use now what i normally use in the winter, About 300 gallons every 10-14 days. Thats less than 1000 gallons per month total. But its just me using, and my dogs.

World’s First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden

Dam breaks at Tempe Town Lake, water gushes into Salt River Bed

Nice rainbow  too!

These are photos from a hike a couple weeks ago up through Meridian Trailhead on the east side of Pass Mtn.

Labels: Arizona Monsoon, Goldfield Mountains, Hiking, Rockhounding

I listen to my pandora stations almost everyday, at work and home. I have included them here if your looking for a new station. I highly suggest M.Ward radio. Hope you enjoy

Labels: internet radio, Music, Pandora

As you can now see, blogger is the new home of freeformcabs.com. And to launch the new format and look. I am offering for the next two weeks.
 Anyone who contacts me for an order i will offer $10 Flat rate box filled with 1st and 2nd grade materials from my overstocks. Agates and Jasper's mainly, but some real nice cutters for the 6-18inch saw. 


All you must do is contact me with you order or sign up with google checkout and purchase them now. I will offer up to 5 boxes per order, each averaging around 20 pounds in weight. You must also pay the shipping costs of $10.20 per box, and we can talk about certain materials if your wanting something specific. I guarantee you will be very pleased with this offer.

Labels: blogger, freeformcabs, special offer, website

I got bout 100 pounds if these. $6 per pound if you are interested

Super nice slab of good ole highgrade Antelope.

Came from some Stalactite like pieces i got from Jerry Steel of Rock-n-Utah. Was able to sand one piece partially before my grinder stopped working. Oh well, nice piece for sure.

Labels: Gratefuldead, Lapidary, Utah

So, after just a few days of changing the format over to google's blogger. I think i am pretty much done with the transfer. Maybe not, well of coarse not. Websites are always an ongoing problem/headache. But at least now i can maintain/manage my inventory and customers all in one place and through a very stable platform that shouldn't have to cost anything since i do the work to generate the content.

I have been totally against using third party checkout managers like paypal and google. But in today's age of Internet commerce. There is really is not much choice for such a small business as mine is. I got out of it years ago to be honest because of these reasons, as well as others. And though i am back offering items for sale online, now via this blog. I am not out proactively selling them in your face, though i should be.

Now though i feel this outlet can work and will work for my level of contact and interests.   So the goal is now to work on updating the inventory package which will now also be easier to maintain through XML. Once i populate the inventory starting tomorrow, before my contract is up with hosting on godaddy for freeformcabs.com. I will reset my name servers to this blog and begin working on SEO. Please in time let me know your thoughts, comments, or opinions.

This stuff is one of my new personal favorites to come into the market in the last 10years or less. It is a extremely hard nodule jasper that displays some of the best abstract and 'lahar' defined patterns out of any jasper ive seen to date. The material can be purchased online from the miners directly, or through other resellers like myself. These pieces pictured are not for sale, but please take a moment to enjoy them designs in brown.
 

Labels: Africa, Lapidary, Royal Sahara Jasper

Its a slow Monsoon season here in the desert. WIth predictions of less rain/cooler afternoons, with hot temps 110-115 average, and high humdity above 65% which is high for us here.

I enjoy following the NOAA site everyday for these massive storms that litterly apear in the mountains and ride the upper valleys down like a rollercoaster. Only to go flat when they hit the heat bubble that is the Metro Phoenix area. If Mans influence on weather and climate can be seen, its here in Pheonix during the monsoons.

The sunsets and sunrise do really shine like classic paintings during this time of the year, so thats a plus. But we all want that rain, and i don't even collect it when i should. Wouldn't that be nice, even if it rains only about 4weeks total here in any given year. Allot of water still falls from the sky in short periods of time. Here's to hoping.

Labels: Arizona Monsoon

Hi, name is Shain Mayer, nice to meet ya.

Thanks for stopping in here at Freeformcabs and taking a moment to look around. Please never hesitate to contact me here through freeformcabs.com, or through other outlets I’ve been known to troll. I am a Native Arizonan, 33 years young, living in the Beautiful East Valley of the Metro Phoenix area. This placed known the world around as Apache Jct, home of the Lost Dutchman & The Superstition Mtns. I have lived near these mountains most of my life, and only continue to grow closer every day. This area is a general rockhounds dream; within a 50squaremile area you can find everything from Gem Amethyst, Druzy, Geodes, Fire agate, Turquoise, and fossils that have often show rare finds of Raptors, and sea turtles! The area is also home to many legends spanning from early Apaches to later Jesuits’ and the Spanish explores. If you ever get a chance, please come visit us in Pantherland, as I call it. It’s a snowbirds heavenly delight.




I’ve been collecting stones since I was young, mostly those of the east Verde area. Payson Diamonds and brain head geodes found in and around the upper east Verde in Central Arizona. Rock collecting was never a passion as must as a general interest until about late high school when I discovered from my little brother no doubt, a fire agate!

I was so amazed at its uncanny distinct color and play of light. Like an oil slick, but organized and suspended like them insects they put in resin as paperweights. What I didn’t know until many years later, that was a low quality piece I was looking at then when I discovered 'gemstones'. Only until I saw deer creek fire agate was I truly amazed at its righteous status as our "true" state gemstone. Something I still believe to this day should be stated for recognition of this organic rainbow of candy. This generally is how my passion started for lapidary and wanting to understand more types of materials and ways to cut and polish them for further collecting and/or reselling for jewelry or display pieces.

I came across a large collection close by home, and the owner and I worked together for rough 4 years during the gem shows season at Quartzsite, AZ. We sold mostly the materials from that collection, which originated from Boise, ID at a place called Marco's rockshop. It was mostly agates and jaspers from the Owyhee river valley area and the general borderland of Oregon and Idaho. Allot of Homedale plume, Regency, Willow creek, Brueanu, Blue Mtn, Antelope, and so many other oddities and generalized agates, jaspers, and petrified wood. We have long parted ways in the rock biz, but I ended up with the majority of the collection. I’ve been working and digging' from this collection for roughly 12 years and it still gives a surprise every time I go out and sort or look for cutting material. About 4 weeks ago, I actually came across a 7 gram piece of Fordite! I couldn’t believe it as it was the first time I’ve every found that stuff in there, and it’s been turned and sorted so many times over. This is a photo of the piles last spring before i sold most of it off, It really only looks different now in that is there no growth on it. Allot of fist size and smaller pieces left.




I am generally a freeform cutter; I do a little carving and tumbling. But mostly do hand cabochon cutting of many gemstone types, but specialize in picture stones best. I also enjoy Druzy and natural face cut cabochons, and I do some stone knife work. I understand the techniques needed to cut opals and jade, as well as special orientation cutting of Pleocoric stones like Moonstone, Labradorite. Some fire agate carving, but still learning the proper way to cut that stuff. I have cut allot of copper oxides, chryscolla silicates and a few real gem silica. I cut Turquoise, but honestly never enjoy it but have a surprise from time to time still (even from my overstock collections). I love working plume agate doublets & Triplets, can cut Spencer opal pretty well. Have done special freeform shapes out of good material likes Bullets, beads, matching sets, high concaved shapes, double dome cutting, belly cutting, and some carved cabbing using both drill and grinding wheels for fold cutting.



Heres a better shot of that Black Druzy Pisomlane that is unreal.


~Shain

Hello all that is blogger, i feel very welcomed with a new look on managing a website for both content i enjoy sharing on, and items i sell from my personal collections. Right now as i post this. As you can see i have a google checkout gaget working and for the moment. I want to run a picture upload and find out more about if i should remote host my photos for the catalog, or host them here with google. Anyone know from experince, please comment with your insight. It would be so helpful but i know such a long shot just asking for someone to tell me. So here is a photo for ya;


OK, so i see the general benefit, but definity not for the catalog, that will have to be remote hosted.

So, this looks to be my option now really. I will remotely host my catalog images, which will be populated through google checkout. I will then plan to use the blog as a simple content manager and catalog. I think i will keep my profile name as is. Freeformcabs is not a trademark but in time many will remember my contribution to the world lapidary community. I am sure i will run into problem but i think this is really the best option for a stable platform that i do not have to host myself, nor have to pay for except in the long run when google takes over the world and makes me pay $100 gallon for water. What you think bout them apples?

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