| TENT
SHOWS!.........
The Electric Park Kino Sports complex shows (formally of Congress Street) is great one with asphalt parking for your car and 20+ tents of varying sizes. If your looking for lapidary equipment and tools, there is a Diamond Pacific tool tent, Graves Lapidary, M.K. Diamond Products, Crystalite corp for their cheap diamond laps, and Abrasive Technologies, Kent tools, and Alpha Supply. If you've ever been to the Franklin, N.C. shows, you will recognize the mineral drums and large tent of "Village Originals" and the "Nature's Bazaar" tent. If you want some of the best petrified wood that can be found in the west, then Johnson Lapidary and Robertsons Rock Works should be your list of stops! One
of the reasons that you may want
to visit
this show on it's opening day is to find that special hand
tool your looking for at Kent Tools, those really special deals at
Village
Originals, and the double keystone jewelry display supplies at Alpha
Supply.
Go there a few days later and the great tools and display case deals
will be
long gone! Crystalite Corp. has great prices on discounted
diamond
flat lap seconds in 8", 6", & 5" sizes. The
2006 deals seemed few and far between at this years
show. Village Originals did have a few more minerals and a
couple
of more semi-bargains. But for the most part, they are turning
into just
another bead dealer! A LOT MORE small tent dealers
this
year selling all kinds of stuff. Kind of made the show look
more
like a flee market than a rock show! |
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2007
 The
new Learning Center opened in 2007 to show case several of the lapidary
equipment dealers at the show. The room consists of just the
section of the tent that the sign is attached. I was here on
their first day and they were not quite set-up to do any hands-on
demonstrations. This was something that the equipment dealers
had been doing in their sale tents anyway but now it brings it under
one roof and gives them another place to demo their products.
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[2003]
 Small tent dealers. . . |
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[2006]
 A big long tent sectioned off to handle about a half dozen dealers. |
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[2004]
 The small tent vendors were selling everything from sunglasses to aroma therapy! Some of them even had some rocks or fossils!! |
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[2005]
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[2005]
 Typical small tent display. . . |
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[2003]
 In 2004 it was bleached Buffalo skulls... 2005 and 2006, a little bit of everything else! |
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[2006]
 ELK STATUES????. . . |
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[2003]
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| Nature's Bazaar 1417 Canton Road Marietta, GA 30066 770.386.1608 |
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[2006]
 Nature's
Bazaar aka
"Morroco To You" - FOSSILS, MINERALS, SILVER JEWELRY AND OTHER
ACCESSORIES.
Dealer local to the Georgia market out of Marietta, GA. |
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[2006]
 Nature's Bazaar |
| Kent's
Tools 133 E. Grant Rd. Tucson, AZ. 85705 520.624.8098 http://www.kentstools.com |
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[2003]
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| ALPHA SUPPLY P.O. Box 2133 Bremerton, WA 98310 800-257-4211 http://www.alpha-supply.com/ |
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2007
 Alpha
Supply has this sale every year on all types of jewelry display
products. You would not believe how fast this stuff sells down.
By the end of third day of the sale, everything will be gone.
They don't even have all of their stock out in this picture which
was taken on the first day of the sale.
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| The
Zion Prospector 694 Aion Park Blvd. Springdale, UT 84767 425.772.0472 http://www.thezionprospecter.com |
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[2006]
 OPAL FLUORITE (Tiffiany Stone) |
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[2006]
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[2006]
 Tiffiany Stone - These "opalized" fluorite nodules are only found in Utah within the famous Thomas Range. |
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[2006]
 Tiffiany Stone - Close-up of the biggest nodule. Pretty stuff and expensive even at "1/2 off". |
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Robertson's
Rock Works
[Not at the Electric Park shows in 2007]
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[2003]
 Robertson's Rock Works tent for great petrified wood! |
| Johnson
Lapidary PHIL and Emma Johnson P.O. Box 4528 Sparks, NV 89423 johnsonlapidary@gbis.com www.johnsonlapidary.com |
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[2004]
 Hubbard Basin wood from Nevada. Go to the Johnson
Lapidary tent for
some of the best polished petrified wood from
the western states.
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[2004}
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| Jayhawk
Rock Shop P.O. Box 296 2519 S. Hwy. 283 Hill City, KS 67642 785.421.2333 |
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[2006]
 The
Jayhawk Rock Shop had one of the most extensive displays of Tampa Bay
and Withlacoochee agatized coral at this year's show. They
have some 16 tons of this material from an old (20 yrs.) collection.
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2006
 U-PICK $8.00 per pound. . . |
MalachiteCongo (Zaire) |
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[2006]
 Malachite
in one of the small tents.
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[2006]
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[2006]
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Norcross - Madagascar |
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[2003]
 Somebody must... as they were back again in 2004 but missing in 2005! Must have finally got rid of them all. . . |
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[2004]
 Rock concretions from Morocco |
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[2004]
 I hope this price is keystone... |
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[2004]
 Septarian nodules from Madagascar [Norcross-Madagascar tent] |
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[2004]
 Unusual black matrix crystal interior.... [Norcross-Madagascar tent] |
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[2005]
 [Norcross-Madagascar tent] |
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[2005]
 [Norcross-Madagascar tent] |
