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Thought I would share some simple, inexpensive display stands I made for some of my smaller fossils. I don't suggest these are museum quality, but hopefully this will encourage others to experiment. These fossils were in my display case but just lying on the floor of a shelf. I didn't feel this was an optimum way to display them. I wanted to get them up off the floor, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money. So I decided to go with a simple wooden base together with some brass rod I bent to shape. The wood came from a 1x3" piece of red oak, 2 feet long, that I got at the local Osh hardware store for $4.49. I sawed some pieces off of it the correct length and have plenty left over for future use. For the brass, I bought some 1/16" rod (4 pieces, 12" long each, for $2.99) and some 3/32 brass tubing (3 pieces, 12" long each for $3.49), also from Osh. I figured out what lengths I needed and cut them with a jeweler's saw. There is plenty left over for more stands. The tubing serves as the straight vertical piece, and the rod (which fits neatly inside the tubing) is bent to shape to hold the fossil. I don't try to get a tight fit around the fossil, I want to be able to easily remove the fossil whenever I want. After I got everything the way I wanted it, I soldered the brass together using 95:5 tin-silver solder (it is fairly strong for a soft solder). Unfortunately the color of the solder doesn't match the brass, but it's behind the fossil out of view so I wasn't too worried. For the wood stand, I rounded the corners of the wood and sanded it smooth, then figured out where I wanted the vertical rods and drilled 3/32 diameter holes at those locations. I then stained the wood with some leftover stain from another project. After it dried, I sprayed on two coats of clear gloss polyurethane. After everything was dry, I inserted the rods into the holes and used some 5-minute epoxy on the underside to hold them in place (there is a shallow clearance hole drilled on the underside of the hole for the epoxy). The labels are just something I put together from PowerPoint and printed on ordinary paper using a color laser printer. I protected the front of the label with ordinary scotch tape and used spray adhesive on the back to apply it to the wood. The one thing I'm not sure about is whether I should dip the ends of the brass rod where they touch the fossil in some liquid plastic something like black Plasti-Dip. I'm worried the brass might scratch the fossil where it touches, but I'm not sure whether a plastic covering would be archival quality. Any advice would be welcome. Hope this inspires you to try your own designs.
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That's right, another display stand for a fossil by ME, snolly! But first, a classic RnB tune by that name. It is a remarkable rendition, exhibiting superior mixing. As in previous display stand posts, this one utilizes an exotic wood blank that was originally produced to be utilized as a bowl turning piece. The wood here is Ambrosia Maple. The pattern seen in the piece is created through invasion by a species of Ambrosia Beetle. These creatures utilize their tunnels to grow a fungus, which provides their sole food source. The wood becomes discolored in this process. https://www.wood-database.com/ambrosia-maple/ Here is the wood blank, sanded and finished with hand-rubbed shellac and then buffed with Briwax. Metal supports were fabricated by Texas hot sauce aficionado, Kris @Ptychodus04. As usual, Kris proved a great source for prep assistance and display metalwork. Once received the support arms were custom cut to length with a Dremel cut-off wheel and plastic/rubbery caps fitted to the ends. The caps used here are sold to finish the ends of wire shelving. Presently, the fossil shown in the stand below is featured in the Forum's ID section. Please comment there with any relevant info. Thanks! Here is the finished display.
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Black versus white mimiature dolls stands for vertical display of Dinoteeth
Megatooth Collector posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Dinosaur Teeth
This is a 4.6 inch Spinosaurus tooth displayed vertically with miniature doll stands (black versus white). I got the idea from AJ Plai who is another member on here and I really liked his custom made vertical display stands for his Dinoteeth. I decided to try miniature doll display stands. At first I could only find white at a local hobby store but recently I found black stands online. I thought it might be helpful to show both for comparison in case others out there are interested in this type of display. Personally, I like the black color better. Also, with both stands, the arms/claspers are bendable and I find you can kind of custom bend the arms to the dimension that works for the tooth. I will have a few more Dinoteeth later in December and I will post a photo will all teeth displayed like this. thanks for looking.