Sonic0627 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 (edited) Hey guys I just got this and when I first looked at the photos I thought it was real. So I bought it but now that I see it in person seems doctored or fake maybe???? What do you guys think real or fake? Edited September 20, 2018 by Sonic0627 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Looks like it may have been coated with something, but other than that looks good. 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...
FrozenFlame Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Looks polished, but other than that, looks pretty good. Most effort in "faking" meg teeth are on the 6+ inches range, can't say I've seen instances of fakes for juve megs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic0627 Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 (edited) Awesome I’m glad I did good on the tooth. love it as a necklace since I love the ocean and fossils/ dinosaurs it threw me off with the coated look. The fakes I’ve seen with juvenile megs don’t look nearly as nice mostly flat black or bright white and look like plastic. Edited September 20, 2018 by Sonic0627 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Looking at the picture, I would say the only "polishing" was performed by water/ wave action. I have many teeth with this exact look straight from streams. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplomado Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Lovely necklace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic0627 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 On 9/21/2018 at 11:57 AM, aplomado said: Lovely necklace! THANK YOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cck Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 They are 3D printing these so beware! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFlame Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 3 hours ago, cck said: They are 3D printing these so beware! Do you have any examples of this? I'd be interested to see how these compare to the real deal, never hurts to understand and find the differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 11 minutes ago, FrozenFlame said: Do you have any examples of this? I'd be interested to see how these compare to the real deal, never hurts to understand and find the differences. If you just Google " 3D print shark tooth" you will come up with many examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haravex Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 13 hours ago, cck said: They are 3D printing these so beware! This is tooth in the necklace has not been 3d printed, the tooth here has water wear around the root showing the structure and flaking of the enamel both would be far to time consuming to fake on such a small tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic0627 Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 Yeah it’s crazy how easy people can fake them I have 3D printed items for a Star Wars armor I’m doing. If you clean and paint the item right it looks like the real deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haravex Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 I feel it would be rather difficult to fake water wear of a fossil and for what gain ok yes it would look more like the genuine article but a small megladon tooth of this size would roughly range in the price of 20 to 40 USD, this is just an example please note I'm not trying to evaluate this piece. Now let's consider the amount of time it would take to print one plus the wearing down of it to make it look water worn and then the paint job which would have to be hand done to paint the splits in the enamel plus the texture of the root and as you can imagine this would take a long time. With this I conclude it would be more expensive for the seller to manufacture one than to find a real one at wholesale and thus forth would indicate that it is indeed a real tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 These are far too common to be faked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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