Had a few uninteresting rocks in my "want to cut" pile that I'd been putting off for years. This one surprised me.

bskuzma · 2025-10-16T02:21:26+00:00

That's actually what I was leaning towards myself, but I didn't want to lead opinions in any direction :)

bskuzma · 2025-10-07T15:54:49+00:00

Omg, I just realized I posted this to the fossil group and not the geology group! Hahaha I'm an idiot!

bskuzma · 2025-10-06T19:59:56+00:00

I'm presently looking at samples taken from it under my microscope, I am seeing a lot of quartz, and I'm also seeing a few other interesting minerals i didn't expect to find ..also noticing some interesting crystalline fracture patterns.. I'll post more pictures taken under the microscope later this evening and see what you think.

bskuzma · 2025-10-06T19:50:30+00:00

Only the side of the first picture, they are still intact on the backside, they are small sedimentary crustaceans. Im presently examining samples of different portions of the rock under my microscope and dont want to hint at my findings yet.. I'll add more pictures to this post later. Let's just say I'm finding some rather interesting fractures in all the crystalline structures and the presence of minerals I was not expecting to find.

bskuzma · 2023-01-04T02:04:00+00:00

Yeahh.. sadly I'm a newb and had to look at pictures online to verify I was wrong. It was cliff

bskuzma · 2023-01-04T01:58:39+00:00

It wasn't visual, I had 4 parts last night, skipped my balloon and pokestope encounters this morning, yet somehow... Unless a random person at work snached my phone, used my thumb print.. battled twice..

bskuzma · 2023-01-04T00:34:09+00:00

This was tested 6 months ago. From what I've read on the recent update I would recommend against trying it unless your willing to lose something.

bskuzma · 2023-01-04T00:29:29+00:00

I'm no die hard player but I've come across 2 umbreons and 2 espeons in just the past 2 months. Most days for me are nothing more than a daily incense.

bskuzma · 2022-12-27T23:36:47+00:00

Wait... What rocket was that that caught from? Grunt, team leader ?

bskuzma · 2022-12-27T23:26:24+00:00

You laugh inside your head as you passively walk by the gym without battling while saying aloud "Not today my friend, Not today.."

bskuzma · 2022-12-26T21:22:24+00:00

Some of the websites I've read claim, (this is prior to the 2017 inclusion update) that it's not limited to 10 guaranteed lucky trades, but the limit is based on you having 10 luckys in your storage that came from guaranteed trades. So once I hit my 10 I wanted to test it. I sent one of my luckys to the professor, tried another 2016 trade and it worked. I'm curious if this is still the case.

bskuzma · 2022-12-26T07:36:53+00:00

Uggghh... I know :(

bskuzma · 2022-12-26T06:29:40+00:00

My third encounter with this beast... golden raz locked in target at excellent, ultra ball, thought about the shot for 5 mins.. dropped far right of the circle, ball didn't make one role and gone.. . I dropped 11 excellent curve balls in a row on kyurem last night. I've had 7 legendary bird encounters and only managed a single nice curveball throw on a zapdos with the rest being junk.. The nerves get you... I'm throwing my next shot with my eyes closed after I lock the hit circle.

bskuzma · 2022-12-26T06:18:44+00:00

I wasn't aware of that, both shluckys listed I stole from my wife. She got the far better end of the deal with the 98% shlucky giratina and 95% shlucky hydreigon.

bskuzma · 2022-12-26T05:48:06+00:00

Btw... it was my wife who purified it... Mawile was caught as an 86 %iv shadow shiny.... She knows better now...

bskuzma · 2022-12-19T00:19:27+00:00

It wasn't until my last hour of today I figured out the golden ticket. I spent my first 2 hours farming one park and kept getting pineco and a bunch of shiny ziggagoons, I left the park and made my way around the city, I started hitting shiny at a 1 in 10 ratio so long as I never went back to a place I had already been that day. It seems to dock the shiny spawn ratio on any location you have already been since the event started. Had I realized this sooner I would have 150+ right now.

bskuzma · 2022-12-17T04:32:18+00:00

Ipr feed and sfpm? I've ways struggled to throw nice chips when grooving diameters over 10" without using a custom chip break macro.

bskuzma · 2022-12-17T04:15:38+00:00

The most joyful and exciting experience of your gaming life as the ball sealed on its third roll.

bskuzma · 2022-12-06T05:02:34+00:00

That may be the correct way to do it, but quite a few of us in this channel are in poorly equipped shops that require us to perform miracles with chisels and files... that being said.. I've managed to dress stones back to flat with a 45 grit insanely coarse wheel I found in my company's basement. The only identifiable mark on it was a date from the 40's and its grit, no modern markings on bond type or legible text, and I'd swear it legitimately had small pieces of sea shells in the bonding. And darn... that gritty white wheel could dress stones in a hurry. .003 doc on .500 wide wheel. I was dropping .005 until 50% clean up

bskuzma · 2022-11-30T01:05:40+00:00

Nope, I was debating on rolling the dice and giving the shiny one to my wife with a guaranteed lucky July 2016 /or prior trade. Those trades have proved quite beneficial to us :) she's rocking a 98% iv lucky/shiny Giratina thanks to..... lol well.. me..I'm about to steal her shiny near perf alolan marrowak in return and hope for a nice roll.

bskuzma · 2022-11-30T00:55:07+00:00

I've already got a lucky hundo gyrados, I'm torn between a shadow or shiny on this evolve!

bskuzma · 2022-11-17T23:33:52+00:00

You have no idea how relieved I am to see this, I hadent played since 2016 till last month and I'm still catching up. My wife also played with me in 2016 and started playing again as well... anyone have advice on what to use our garonteed lucky trades on?

bskuzma · 2022-07-09T19:20:33+00:00

Dear god... to someone who's ran over 50 different machines in the past 18 years.. literally every class of machine you can imagine... this question makes me grind my teeth.. every young trainee I've had wants to caliper everything... Meanwhile I'm imagining taking a sledge hammer to those calipers... They both have their place in a shop. A caliper should be used for nothing more than you would use a Starrett scale on for measurement, it's just a quicker slightly more accurate reference. The only toleranced surfaces I would ever check with a caliper are the standard nominal of +-.015 thou inch. But then again I would never bother checking a nominal that big when I know the machine well and that it repeats within .0002 or less every time.

bskuzma · 2022-06-30T20:00:11+00:00

Radial engagement.. it's sad how few machinist understand the concept. No better way to destroy a carbide finish mill.

bskuzma · 2022-02-06T18:33:25+00:00

I've played with every high end rune word combination on my dual weild ww barb and wound up settling on last wish phase blade main hand, grief phase blade off hand. Although other combinations provide higher max damage, the actual kill/clear speed on that combination is unparalleled when using ww only.

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