Archie Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Hi everyone, on a trip over the weekend to the north of Scotland hunting for Devonian fish I struck it lucky and found a nice specimen of a rare placoderm fish in a hard carbonate nodule. It needs glued back together and reverse prepped and I definitely don't have the experience to do it myself. My 30th birthday is coming up in a few months and my family have really kindly offered to get it prepped for me as a birthday gift, can anyone recommend a preparator in the UK? Any suggestions much appreciated! Regards Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 @Bobby Rico Don't you have a go to prep guy, my friend? Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Thank you Adam I do have a prep guy in my opinion he is fantastic with ammonites if not the best but I don’t know if he works on fish . Sam if you add a couple of good photos to your post I will wastsapp him. If he is interested we can sort it out the details. All the best Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeon.rocks Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Check out with Craig Chivers from NFS, one of the great preparators in UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, aeon.rocks said: Check out with Craig Chivers from NFS, one of the great preparators in UK: I know him too, he is good but I would probably would have sent his email address in a pm to Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeon.rocks Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 It's publicly published email (copied from his web), not sure about forum rules tho. Admin, sorry if posting it here is not allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubapro67 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I second Craig - he does amazing work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 Thanks very much for the suggestions guys! Heres a few pics of the nodule opened and closed, its around 7 inches across. The plates on one half of the the split have a thin layer of sediment obscuring them a bit but as far as I can tell nothing was lost when it was split. Ive included a pic taken from the net of what the fish (Pterychthyodes milleri) may hopefully look like if complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Got someone guys but thanks again guys, will post results in a couple of weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Archie said: Got someone guys but thanks again guys, will post results in a couple of weeks Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelius Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 On 28/08/2018 at 3:41 PM, aeon.rocks said: Check out with Craig Chivers from NFS, one of the great preparators in UK I second this recommendation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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