Guinea Trait

[Fire1981]

I never knew that what looks like 95% of the color combo is on the surface and not in the matrix. It’s only got one leg but I’m going Kermit Krazy on this one. 🔥🔥🔥

[akroorka]

Cullet always opens your eyes!

Thanks again to all of the diggers past and present.

Marble--On!!

[Jeff54]

Well shoot. Wishing my danged camera would let me just point and shoot my Cyclone half pieces to show you.. There's more than what meets the eye on this fire.  You've got Cobra/Cyclone inside it. You see those small bits of frit in the central area, If the spots of color on the surface had a pane to see through, those bits in there, depending on the depth inside, would get magnified two or three times what you are seeing inside now. And it would not look like what you see in the center of it, rather you'd see them blend or flow more, get pretty like these:

[akroorka]

56 minutes ago, Jeff54 said:

Well shoot. Wishing my danged camera would let me just point and shoot my Cyclone half pieces to show you.

Just take 20-30 images like I do and pick out the best.

Marble--On!!

[Fire1981]

I think I’ll stick with a Guinea. I don’t see how the minimal activity in the matrix could turn it into a Cobra/ Cyclone. I would need to see better pics of the  one you posted. I would like to see side by side confirmed pics of Guinea and Cyclone/Cobras before I commit to this being a Cobra/Cyclone/ Wizard of Oz tornado. By the way. The tornado in the Wizard of Oz was a silk stocking stuffed with lint🔥

[Ric]

On 1/27/2023 at 11:59 PM, Fire1981 said:

I never knew that what looks like 95% of the color combo is on the surface and not in the matrix . . .

Who knew looking at marble innards could be both fun and enlightening 🙂 - this is a great example, Rick, thanks for sharing it!

[Ric]

15 hours ago, Jeff54 said:

. . . it would not look like what you see in the center of it, rather you'd see them blend or flow more, get pretty like these:

Thanks for the photo and the comments, Jeff - "pretty" is the right description for those marbles!

[Ric]

6 hours ago, Fire1981 said:

I think I’ll stick with a Guinea. I don’t see how the minimal activity in the matrix could turn it into a Cobra/ Cyclone . . .

I think we all see it as a Guinea, Rick - the point is that if only the innards of your marble were in a clear transparent base glass with no surface frit/base color to cloud them then you could easily be looking at a Cobra/Cyclone like the ones Jeff posted - I agree, and with those colors it'd probably be an outstanding marble!

[Jeff54]

10 hours ago, akroorka said:

Just take 20-30 images like I do and pick out the best.

Marble--On!!

Ha, ha. Been there done that. Tons of photos just to get on steady shot. That's why I have a little tripod. 98% of the time, free handing the camera, whenever I push the button, it causes the camera to move. So, no, the problem is the Digital SLR in micro mode and adjusting settings over and over for practically every different marble I shoot. . Yet, it's also because I got my current newer camera after researching different used models and this amateur blogger who takes sweet, doubly sweet, freehand micro shots of bugs, flowers and everything else without a tripod. His directions of what settings to use works super for him but not for me, even with a tripod. I am frustrated and stuck with this camera until I can figure it out.