Obicular Granite

Obicular Granite

At one of the side-shows associated with the Denver Gem and Mineral Show I ran into a vendor who had what looked to me to be white granite ith black spots in it!   I have since then that this rock is called obicular granite and is found in Peru, Finland, and Australia. I need relatively large flat slabs for my table.  The vendor told me he had an uncut rock in his local shop.  I bought it and had it cut  into slabs at my cousin's lapadary shop in Golden, Colorado.

I used two of the slabs as a focus here, mostly to prove that you could get a good design and not follow the 1:3:5:7 rule.  I did and I called the result Africa becuase it has a shape very somewhat similar to Africa, but a lot smaller!

Unfortunately I don't have any more large slabs so this is probably the only table I'll ever make using obicular granite. 

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