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3 hours ago, JimB88 said:

Great stuff Roger! Sorry to hear about your dust collector..hopefully it wont be too expensive to replace.

Thanks for your sympathy, Jim. No, it will be expensive (dental laboratory suction machine), since I've decided to go for long life, relative silence and quality this time around. Those cheaper vacuum cleaners last only a year at the most due to the fine dust getting into the motor. Fortunately I've had a flood of prep orders lately which should balance the books again.

 

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My dust collector still hasn't arrived, but I just couldn't wait to get this one finished. It's a 15cm. Macrocephalites megalocephalus, a species which was created in 1989 by Callomon etal. It's indigineous and specific to this particular area, so I'm pleased to finally have one in the collection. It comes from a horizon in the koenigi zone, which lies a meter or so higher up than where I've been digging. I just happened to glance up and into the scree lying above the dig and saw the venter sticking out of the dirt. Just had to pry it out and there it was. So after putting on a face mask and airing out the workshop every 2 minutes for 2 hours, I managed to get this guy abraded. But that was just an emergency situation :P The rest can wait until the collector is here.

 

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A lovely and large piece! 

 

I completely understand the urgency given a specimen like this. Needs must, as they say :P 

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2 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

...It's a 15cm. Macrocephalites megalocephalus...

Superb. :wub:

 

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2 hours ago, aerogrower said:

These are very nice Roger. Keep the pics coming!

 

2 hours ago, Kane said:

A lovely and large piece! 

 

I completely understand the urgency given a specimen like this. Needs must, as they say :P 

 

36 minutes ago, PFOOLEY said:

Superb. :wub:

 

I sure do like that one :) Now I just need my super vacuum cleaner to get the rest done.

 

 

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1 hour ago, ynot said:

One down, one (+infinity) more to go (for now?)

Looks good.

 

Thanks, Tony. I've got about 10 more, albeit somewhat smaller, on the waiting list.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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12 hours ago, Monica said:

Wow.

 

:faint:

:) I just heard back from the company where I ordered the dustsucker and there's going to be a delay of at least another week because of a missing part. Dagnab it! :angry:

 

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One of the things that is so great about the forum, especially for us new to collecting, are those photos of pre-prepped material, especially when it is in-situ...I can't believe that pile of rocks are prepped into the beautiful fossils pictured below...are you sure  you are not a Michaelangelo Fossil Sculptor, carving those stones to reveal what is hidden inside, as Michaelangelo claimed to do. ..oh, yes, guess that is what you are, obviously from your great work. Can't wait to see the others. 

 

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14 minutes ago, dalmayshun said:

One of the things that is so great about the forum, especially for us new to collecting, are those photos of pre-prepped material, especially when it is in-situ...I can't believe that pile of rocks are prepped into the beautiful fossils pictured below...are you sure  you are not a Michaelangelo Fossil Sculptor, carving those stones to reveal what is hidden inside, as Michaelangelo claimed to do. ..oh, yes, guess that is what you are, obviously from your great work. Can't wait to see the others. 

 

Thanks for the praise :) It's actually not as difficult as it may look once you start to get the gist of things (along with the proper equipment of course).

 

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Wow, awesome specimens, Roger! Congrats on the lovely prep so far as well as adding this last one to your collection despite present difficulties! Love the vicarious thrill your ammonite adventures provide. :) 

 

Leah

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5 hours ago, jewelonly said:

Wow, awesome specimens, Roger! Congrats on the lovely prep so far as well as adding this last one to your collection despite present difficulties! Love the vicarious thrill your ammonite adventures provide. :) 

 

Leah

Thanks, Leah :) I'm starting to think about asking around for a used vacuum cleaner to fill in the gap until delivery. It's frustrating seeing everything, including the commission work, just sitting on the work bench.

 

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I've been biding some of my time lately dusting my shelves and the fossils thereon. I figured I might as well use my extra spare time in a constructive way until the new equipment arrives, but today I decided to plunge into some air abrading again, despite lack of suction. I'd been eying a smaller and somewhat damaged Macrocephalites for a while and had an idea as to what I could do with it. So after about an hour or so of abrading, I got down to putting the idea into practice. First a side view of the culprit after I was done.

 

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You may start getting an idea of what I was doing when you look at the second pic.

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Yup. I cut it in two.

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And then I sanded and polished it.

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Now I can add this to my "Slices" shelf :)

 

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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19 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

I've been biding some of my time lately dusting my shelves and the fossils thereon. I figured I might as well use my extra spare time in a constructive way until the new equipment arrives, but today I decided to plunge into some air abrading again, despite lack of suction. I'd been eying a smaller and somewhat damaged Macrocephalites for a while and had an idea as to what I could do with it. So after about an hour or so of abrading, I got down to putting the idea into practice. First a side view of the culprit after I was done.

 

Now I can add this to my "Slices" shelf :)

 

 

Wow, Roger - I love it!!! :wub::drool:

 

Are those oolites that I see in the outer chambers?  And all of those crystals in the inner chambers...beautiful!

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3 hours ago, Monica said:

 

Wow, Roger - I love it!!! :wub::drool:

 

Are those oolites that I see in the outer chambers?  And all of those crystals in the inner chambers...beautiful!

Thanks, Monica. If you'd like to see some similar things, then check out my album.

Yes, those are iron oolites, which used to be mined in the area.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Playing catch up with this thread. Gorgeous work Roger! Is the Belemnite naturally curved like that or the result of tectonics?

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19 hours ago, Shamalama said:

Playing catch up with this thread. Gorgeous work Roger! Is the Belemnite naturally curved like that or the result of tectonics?

Thanks Dave. Tectonics were at work here.

 

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I got tired of waiting and just got hold of an old vacuum cleaner that was lying around unused at work. It should do the trick for the next few weeks until the proper one finally arrives. I put it to use today and got a few more things done.

 

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Homeoplanulites sp.

 

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Macrocephalites sp.

 

It doesn't fit with the title, but what the heck... I visited the Kimmeridgian ditch again yesterday and came up with a couple of things.

 

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My tiniest Aptychus with a length of just 15mm. Laevaptychus obliquus

 

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Streblites tenuilobatus

 

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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