Agate and Agatine...what is the difference. Is Agatine a synthetic agate? Thats what I'm assuming. Any way to tell the difference if you have a pile of them?
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Agate and Agatine...what is the difference. Is Agatine a synthetic agate? Thats what I'm assuming. Any way to tell the difference if you have a pile of them?
Agatine Stripping Guides
Agatine Stripping Guides
Synthetic agates reminiscent of the 40's and ...
Agate is the Real McCoy!!
One difference is that Agate often has variations in color where Agatine is quite uniform in color. Pics might help.
Thanks for the pictures. I used a flashlight to look for banding in the guides and feel that I got them pretty well sorted. I guess my big question was to just find out if agatine was synthetic.
GBurgFisher,
I sent you a PM.
Brian
Hey Andrew...I can help you with all those that you have and save you a lot of worry and frustrations!! just send them all to me and you won't have to worry about sorting them out!! How's that Sound?
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