Greetings Pinsiders,
This is the premier of my gemstone shooter rods.
As a trained and degreed artist, I have worked on many projects. I cannot remember being more satisfied with the results of my work than I am with these shooter rods.
$57 (all shooters priced individually - Check the post with picture for price) shipped to the continental USA - As correctly guessed by pinside member "asay" in our guess game.
PM for price to Canada.....
I have 4 total right now. More styles and colors coming up.
Here is a description of the shooter rods.
Picture Jasper (beige/light brown)
SOLD - White Turquoise (white)
SOLD - Red Mahogany Obsidian (black and red - looks blood red from the picture but more of a rust red in person - FYI)
SOLD - Dark blue-green/black Jasper stone (Blue and black are the rarer colors for Jasper, this is a rare color. It has golden yellow stripes)
The size of the ball is 1.6" or about the size of a ping-pong ball.
These are the first ones ever made....by me, and one of a kind.
They are show stoppers! Beautiful and should last the lifetime of your machine. Shall we say that they are "rock-solid". They are real stone and look so good that they almost look like they are not the real thing, but they are the real thing. Made by the twisting movement, heat, and millions of years of pressure of the earth.
They are not easy to make and take a long time. Made with the same tools used in the industrial revolution, right here in the USA.
Spend 1% - 2% of the cost of your super fine pinball machine and add something that is older than you and your pinball. (You didn't think that would happen.)
Thanks for looking.
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Information about jasper stone.
The name jasper is derived from the Greek and means "spotted stone".
The finely grained, dense jasper contains up to 20 percent foreign materials, which determine its color, streak, and appearance. Uniformly colored jasper is rare, usually it is multicolored, striped, or flamed.
Jasper, an aggregate of microquartz and/or chalcedony and other mineral phases,is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions.
Green jasper was used to make bow drills in Mehrgarh between 4th and 5th millennium BC. Jasper is known to have been a favorite gem in the ancient world; its name can be traced back in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Assyrian, Greek and Latin. On Minoan Crete, jasper was carved to produce seals circa 1800 BC, as evidenced by archaeological recoveries at the palace of Knossos.