Ocean jasper goes into the saw today!

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Found on the Yellowstone River. Polished on my CabKing

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10 backed cabs free

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First stabilized cabochon

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Natural banded agate pair - I cut this from a slab I found at a junk store!

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some process shots of an agate I carved into a seashell

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Montana Agates

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Blue Mountain Jasper with a face polish

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My 100.00 goodwill find

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Bought some opal in Tucson last week. This is the first piece I get into after removing the crust 😍

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Found a long-lost Boss Ross painting last weekend

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My first cabs

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Never done lapidary work before but i had a dremel and a dream!

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A mouse carved from a single piece in of ruby in zoisite with sapphire eyes and 18k gold tail measuring 6.8 cm high. One of countless creations by master cutter Gerd Dreher in his 78 year career. (1993)

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My last month of work!

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My Latest Cabochons

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Was able to get a better photo of this fire obsidian cab today.

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In progress. Opalized petwood with native copper veins.

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Finally got to cut some Gary Green. It did not disappoint.

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Couple cabs I worked on today

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Getting the wheels turning again, this is an old one, though. Botryoidal Azurite

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First time with my used vibrator...feels good 😏

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Made this for the subreddit - not sure how many others have run into this issue

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Regency rose cabs and some finished pieces. Blues ones are turquoise doublets

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Blue Bahia Dumpster score

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My first non-practice intarsia cabochon. Crazy lace agate and obsidian.

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Schlabbed and cabbed. Stoked on how this round turned out!

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My First Lapidary Project!

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Projects, projects.

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Laguna Agate cabochon one of my favorite of today's lapidary batch.

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Massive rainbow petrified wood I’m slabbing. What are the saws I need to rent out? 7,000 lb, 5’x42”x32” Arizona tree trunk. Any and all advice is good advice:)

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Stone Drilling

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cut up some rhodochrosite the other day on the little 6 inch saw and our Dimond band saw.

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My ever changing Cab Tree. Wanted a way to display finished cabs while they wait to be used or sold. This is what I came up with.

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Working on some Kingman spiny oyster/turquoise composite

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My second cab ever :) I’m so happy with it!!

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all set up and ready for the oil.

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Pleasantly surprised that the technique I developed for grinding the slight concavity on a wheel was quick, easy, and accurate.

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I think I'm starting to get the hang of this! Petrified palm root that I hounded and cabbed :)

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Finally got some lapidary equipment!

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Juniper Ridge Opal, Oregon

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Had a very productive night at the local Gem and mineral society! Someday I'll get my own cabbing machine...

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What do you all think?

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Australian opals on dops, ready to get the final polish.

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Wyoming Medicine Bow Agate I just finished working...

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Went to a lapidary estate auction over the weekend and here's one of my finds in a box of rocks. 10lb malachite chunk. Also got a foredom flex shaft and like 300lbs of other rocks lol

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Found this amazing piece on Tuesday. I can't wait to get these slabbed!

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Tried using a stone as a setting. Sagenite in quartz with welo opal.

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I'm officially in the club folks!

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Prepping some pretty Royston turquoise this week.

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Cabochons I completed recently.

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Carnelian agate can be found near where I live, a lot of it has bands and cool patterns. This one I cut looks like a sunset.

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My fifth project, pretty proud of this one. Utah Dinosaur Bone

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bummer.

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Three months of work on a bare bones garage to create our dream lapidary setup!

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First cab of 2022. Happy New Year! (Crazy Lace)

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Mexican fire opals

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So a while back I was looking all over for silver findings to set my cabochons in and I just decided to make my own! So happy I went that route! Here's my last three pieces, I think I've made 5 total, but these are my latest and greatest!

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I cabbed this blue apatite and made this pendant for my daughter's 7th birthday!

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I’ve been having a hard time containing my excitement over this! Cut into a hunk of Chiapas Amber that didnt look to magnificent in the rough, only to reveal this beauty. Hello whittle Dino dna 😍

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I made my first cabochon. please clap.

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Made my first pendant. Have a little more filing to do but I’m stoked.

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Why didn't I do this months ago?

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Overhauled my cutting area with an adjustable height bench and a massage chair for longer sessions.

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rate my setup

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Some northwest picture jasper cabs I've cut recently

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Inspiration Mine - hanging on to this piece for 20 years, not sure if I’ll ever cut it....

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I finally got some Biggs, this is what I’ve made so far (also a Woodward ranch plume)

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On home lock down, so i spent the day on my 2nd round of cabs. Still learning, but I feel better about these.

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Sharing on of my Christmas break projects

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I built myself a flatlap machine, here’s my first cabochon attempt (hasn’t had the final polish yet)

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Tourmaline 5.11 Cts Recut

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Fire agate cabochons?! Finished up the other day. I see fire agate in my dreams after cutting these lovelys.

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KingsTurquoise cabs

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Self collected agate from Arizona that I polished on the cab machine. I am still very new to using a cab machine.

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I was told to post my collection here as well!

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90lb fluorite from richardsons

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A productive day off :)

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Think I'll start posting some random things I make as a hobby. Strawberry quartz ring

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My first ever lapidary work, a fire agate cabochon. Made using the jooltool lapidary kit and assorted dremel bits. It’s not perfect but I’m happy with it!

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here's my homemade cabbing set up. When I'm done making my faceting machine, it will set on the left side of the desk

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I just scored a free barely used facetron from my work! so I guess I'm going getting in to lapidary now

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Malachite stalactite slab earring and pendant set

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A party of parti sapphires. All Australian parti sapphires I’ve cut this year 🎉

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Picked this up from my local rock shop today. 100g of stabilized turqouise(some with nice chunks of pyrite) 8g of nice spessartite garnets, and some partially cabbed pinkish sapphires. All for $50. How'd I do?

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I’m only a beginner so have to ask the pros- would you bother finishing this cab that has a crack?

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Digging through some of my turquoise and found probably half a dozen of these azurite in turquoise nuggets.. Should I cab them?! Never seen any turquoise quite like this. They will end up as small cabs, but I think they might look pretty rad.

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3rd batch attempt at cabbing some slabs I had laying around (quarantine hobbies). Beginner here, so criticism/suggestions are more than welcome.

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I made my own 8 Flat Lap Backing Disc because Backing Discs from all sellers are ridiculously priced - Made with an 11x14x.093 Acrylic Sheet - Cut to shape using a Skroll Saw and sanded edges with varying grits sandpaper

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Cabbed up some turquoise this weekend. Soooo easy compared to agates I usually work with.

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The seller tells me this moss agate was not colour treated and I hoped people who know a lot about agate might share any insight - have you ever seen this coloration naturally in moss agate?

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Any idea what this material is? I got it from my local rock club, and i can’t always trust their identifications.

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My very first time shaping rock. The proportions are wonky. There are some tool marks. I cut it too thick. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I loved it. Hopefully first of many. (Dremel and hand-sanded)

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What would you call this?

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Intarsia cabochon made from chrysocolla and petrified ironwood

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Any exciting Black Friday deals on Lapidary machines?

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Homemade cabbing machine

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Made this Owyhee Japser cab today. First piece carved and polished on my new CabKing. Very excited to finally have my very own arbor.

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Tried to make an ocean wave with lapis, ended up more like a motorcycle helmet

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Ontario Feldspar

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So I cut man made opals :P

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Safe to cut? The green is agate, not malachite, but do I still have to worry about copper content?

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Got a new toy today. Stoked 🥳

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How to protect/keep common opal from drying/crumbling? Keep in water?

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Update: I know once again nothing special but here are my very first cabs! I’m so excited I can’t wait to make more. I’m addicted.

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The final set of 3 stones all finished up. (The one on the right is what i posted yesterday)

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Just finished my 4th and 5th stones! Really makes making jewelry a whole lot more involved.

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This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

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To cut or not to cut?

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The single nicest piece of rutilated quartz I’ve ever cut. Had to give it the special treatment with the cut. It’s 2 1/8th inch long

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I joined my local lapidary club and this is my first cab!

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Should I hand sand this portion?

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Thoughts on this 3lb Hubei parcel I got?

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Labradorite Polishing Help- should I take this back to the wheels to remove those pits?

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Help with chattering scratches (cabbing)? Where is this coming from? I've cleaned the wheels. Too much pressure? Not enough?

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This is the best example of Chicken Track picture jasper I have ever seen and I'm getting ready to put it to the saw.

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After years of searching, I got an 18 slab saw. Alta Industries, from the 50's. Drive belt comes in on Friday. My 10 Lortone was struggling to deal with large stones, for too long. I am lucky I didn't damage it, it is a real workhorse. The new saw is a tank, and am pretty stoked about it.

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I colored with rocks

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Large oval cabochon.

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My first cab. From some Graveyard Point plume I've had for a while. It's not perfect, but it's a start.

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I designed and 3D printed a gem transfer jig

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My first ever cab! Turritella agate

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NZ Pounamu/Greenstone (nephrite jade) double twist.

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Drilling through 5mm of agate with a Dremel is a no-go. Will need to do some other bail.

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What the heck is this slab?

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Next on the bench, ready to set but can't choose which to start with!

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Bad News Bears

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A few cabs

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Good deals are always out there. Picked up a 24 saw for 100.00

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posted my turqouise haul last week - here's a cabochon I cut and sterling ring I fabricated, all done yesterday afternoon! My 2nd finished piece & first turquoise cab I've cut

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I just ordered 200cts of Welo opal off ebay from a high rated seller. They say they weigh from 3-15cts each(I know they're quite small). Should I cut them wet, or dry? And, am I getting robbed for paying $75?

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some new cuts

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Recently started slabbing and polishing a lot of my self-collected rocks from central Texas. I have a few questions...

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Hi! I was wondering if anyone knew how I could polish these (agate?) slabs. The bright red one on the bottom is an example of how i’d like it to be shiny. The ones on top are dull but have so much potential!

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Nice contact

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Before and after.

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I want to share this gorgeous piece of lapidary work. Obsidian Cabochons in 100% handmade settings and chain.

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Beginner looking for advice in advancing her skills. Where and how? Thanks! ☺️

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My grandfather pulled this from the ground himself years ago in NC. I’m told it’s a garnet. Is it worth trying to see if this could be extracted from the surrounding rock, cleaned up, and polished?

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Variscite Cabs (A good day at the bench!)

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What tool would you use to form a consistent indentation like this if you had any choice? Roughly 1.5 inch peices.

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Here’s some pretty Serpentine that I just cut and two that I’ve started to cab. Self collected in Southern Vermont.

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Need Advice on how To Facet on Cheap Chinese Lap.

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Dino bone always makes such beautiful cabs

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What should I do with this petrified wood?

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This weeks project was a bit challenging! Shapes are not symmetrical, just going with the flow of the druzy.

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Need help finding new blade for slab saw. Details in comments.

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What’s the Best thicknesses to cut Petrified wood tables? The saw is 0.5 inches thick. What’s the perfect median between thickness and number of slabs (mixed thicknesses are fine if it’s more value) dimensions in pic 6500-7000 lbs. 2.25” slabs = 18.18% loss,1.5”= -25%,2”= -20%,2.75”= -15.38%,3”=-14%

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