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  1. Yoda

    Polishing Amber

    I have a few pieces of Burmese Amber such as this one. The surface is not as translucent as others. It looks like it could do with a further polish. How do I go about doing that?
  2. just dug this up, tried to buff it with some wool and oxide polish but it just scuffed it up instead. I guess there was limestone in the fossil and now it looks chalky. any way to make it look good again or is it ruined.
  3. minnbuckeye

    Polishing Mary Ellen Jasper

    While vacationing in northern Minnesota, I picked up this piece of Mary Ellen Jasper. My goal was to have one side polished in order to bring out the features of the stromatolite. Unfortunately, my attempts to find someone locally to polish it failed. Does anyone have knowledge of someone who could tackle this for me?
  4. Have 2 pieces of pyritized wood (maybe marcasite) from the coal areas of central Illinois-Farmington. One is a slab and the other a branch. Have included photos. I believe the branch may have been coated with clear lacquer. The slab has not been coated but it is deteriorating on the surface. I had some pyritized snails from the same area from 40 years ago. I had lost them for many years and recently found them and they had disintegrated. Would ike to poish if possible and stabilize the finish. Would appreciate any guidance. Thanks Gerry
  5. Thomas.Dodson

    Sectioned and Polished Fossils

    I've never put much time into sectioned and polished fossils, usually just because I don't usually collect material that would look well cut over whole. While preparing a trilobite I collected in Illinois over the Summer and I was cutting sections off the matrix bottom so the matrix lay flat as a stand. To my surprise I ended up cutting thin sections through a Favosites coral that piqued my interest. Coincidentally, this was at the same time @FranzBernhard posted his thread demonstrating a low-cost approach to polishing and sectioning small carbonate rocks and fossils by hand. With such a handy guide put forward at a perfect time I decided to try my hand at sectioning and polishing fossils. I was waiting on grit polish in the mail for a while and that has now arrived which allowed me to finally try some sections myself. I figured I'd post the humble results here so as to encourage more people who might be interested in trying this. I've cut lots of rocks before but this was my first time attempting polishes. The uneven cuts from some of the specimens are noticeable in the polish. I tried to grind some of the surfaces even before polishing but this was more difficult for the hard material. Oh well. I think I can improve the fine polish on a lot of these by putting more time into them but I think this was good as a first attempt.
  6. cngodles

    Limestone polishing

    I’ve been collecting for a year now. I started to make a limestone sink, because I love the limestone that I find marine fossils in locally. Well part of the process was polishing the bowl I cut out, and wow, polished black limestone is a thing of beauty. It even has some fossils in it. I’ll post the sink one day. Naturally, I wanted to try polishing a fossil focus piece. I found this nice coral, likely Rugosa. I polished it to 3,000 grit with a Dewalt polisher and a set of stone polish pads. It was a quick experiment but I liked how it turned out.
  7. I've posted some pictures of the ammonite I bought and want to polish. If you look at the third picture, (ammonite 2.jpg), you will see that on the ammonite some rainbow color resides. I want to make the whole ammonite that color. Is there any way to polish it to make the rainbow show more? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that rainbow color is fossilized mother of pearl aka Ammolite. Does anyone know the following? If you could answer, that'd be a big help. Thank you for your future words! Any suggestions welcome. You'll never know what will work. The best way to clean and polish the ammonite to make the ammolite show and without breaking the fossil. A way to preserve the color when and if I polish it. Thank you so much, everyone, for your future ideas!
  8. holdinghistory

    To polish, or not to polish?

    I just got this neat piece of Burmese amber in the mail. Rough piece with a sea lily star in the attached rock. It is a very large piece (66 grams), and looks neat rough as is. But I can't help wondering what it would look like with the amber portion polished, especially if there are any insects inside. Any thoughts on whether to polish it or leave it as is?
  9. I have a rock tumbler I don't use but it is very good. I don't have much fossil hunting equipment. I really want a pick hammer. I only carry a trowel when hunting. This will also boost my fossil hunting luck.
  10. I have some megalodon teeth that are prime candidates for being “diamond polished”. I just don’t know what tools to use. Or if I need a certain polish. I just have no idea. Also how to add graphite into the teeth to polish. I think that’s really cool too. If anyone has any advice it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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