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  1. I finished this prep of a trilo-cephalon a week ago. I kept forgetting to post it, but I finally remembered today. This is an Acaste zerinae cephalon. It is from Leighton Formation, pre usual. It is missing a small chip of the right eye - I unfortunately didn’t notice its absence till I returned home. It’s a shame, this guy would have been completely whole if I had found it. On the plus side, this guy’s a very nice color in the sun - a kind of bluish. The other trilo-bits - including another cephalon - all were a brownish color. Makes this one a bit more special. The first picture below is of the cephalon pre-prep. All the following images are of the cephalon from multiple angles, then in natural light. Thanks for reading!
  2. I'm fairly new to fossil preparation. After a trip to the Olympic Peninsula back in November, I had a ton of concretions and no way to see what was inside. At first a tried splitting them with a hammer, but after busting a perfectly good claw into a million pieces, it was clear that I needed some actual preparatory equipment, either an air scribe or a Dremel 290. I went with the 290, and for the last month I've been working through the concretions. Most of them are duds, either empty or just a small piece of exoskeleton at the center. I unearthed a pretty solid looking defensive claw a few weeks ago, and today I finally had another success: a feeder claw! I've inflicted a pretty good number of dings on both claws, but overall I'm happy with them. My most common mistake is flaking the very tips off. Once the surrounding shale is chipped away, they tend to detach very easily. When this happens, they're usually still in a tiny chunk of shale, which I find near impossible to disassociate from the tip. At that point, getting the tips reattached has usually proven to be a lost cause. The species is Callianopsis clallamensis from the late Oligocene of Twin Beach Washington. Defensive claw. Feeder claw. Both claws mounted.
  3. This is a recent prep I undertook - a rather incomplete specimen of a Chonetes bastini, a species of brachiopod from the Leighton Formation. I picked this one as a practice piece to try some new techniques on, and was hoping for any tips on different finishes for the matrix. I have heard that beeswax was often used for the matrix to make it appear darker, but did not know the proper methods or appliance techniques. Any thoughts on the finished product are also appreciated! The specimen itself is missing the upper right left of its shell, and only has two spines present (upper right). Otherwise, it was a well preserved specimen. I applied a thin coating of paraloid to the shell, to make it stand out, as well as preserve it better. The pictures show the specimen before and after preparation. The first image is of it before prep, while the last two are of it after. Thanks for reading! @Ludwigia @Terry Dactyll
  4. Recently recieved a nice little package of lance creek lag formation matrix for me and a close friend to look through. I personally never handled a tough hard more dry matrix like this as I'm mostly a creek digger and my friend she is a complete amateur so this will be her first time. I'm looking for any helpful tips on how to approach such matrix. It came with two wooden sticks and some strange glue made of beads that I heard u would need acetone to break down, and if that's the case what would be the proper amount to mix? Also would it be a good idea to use the wooden sticks as a digging tool to break up the matrix? And lastly what would be the best approach coming across a fragile more broken up bone? Any help to make this experience smoother will be very much appreciated as I'd love to make the fossil hunting experience especially more smoother and special for my friend.
  5. Hey everyone! Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. I have been so busy with school, family life, and lots of technical problems. But I finally was able to finish my video and I am so excited to share my work with all of you! This video is about my latest fossil cleaning, It is my favorite trilobite to date! It is actually a complete body fossil, not just a shell, or a piece of one. I did learn a few new things this time. I had some trouble with this one because the air scribe I have is not not suited for microscopic fossils, which is what I am cleaning up. Because of this I ended up damaging my fossil. A technique I am trying is to find the edges of the fossil and clean them out before I clean out the middle of the fossil. I am doing this because the air abrasive is basically a s sand paper in air form. The top of this trilobite is quite detailed, if I cleaned up the detailed section first it would leave it open to be hit by unintentional air abrasive and thus damaging it. So I left the top to be done last. This seemed to work well. Which is pleasing. Watch and see how it all turned out!
  6. Hello everyone! Sorry that it has been a while since I posted. I have been so busy with school. Physics keeps me pretty busy lol! So I have been working on my trilobites. This time I found out that working with the air abrasive it can be good to point the air parallel with the grooves of the trilobite. This way I can maximize the removal of the matrix and minimize the removal of the actual fossil. Because the angle of the air abrasive is parallel the force vector has a minimal contact with the fossil and maximum effect. Check out my video and see what I was able to do! And a big thanks to the University of Utah for letting me work in their lab, and a big thanks to the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for sponsoring me to work on this project!
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