“show us your handmade display stands”

[Bobby Rico]

Ok this is another idea very cheep and I think if you not got the metal fabrication skills or the money to order bespoke mounts. I do like this hook if is for garden tools many but it bend with ease and I think it works not too badly . 

Better picture tomorrow in good light .

[kirkjeremiah23]

Stand i made for my Hyracodon Skull

[Bobby Rico]

3 hours ago, kirkjeremiah23 said:

Hyracodon Skull

That is cool looking skull I really the look of your stand to the interlocking wire is a cleaver idea. Thank you .

[Bobby Rico]

On 2/1/2019 at 11:21 PM, Bobby Rico said:

Ok this is another idea very cheep and I think if you not got the metal fabrication skills or the money to order bespoke mounts. I do like this hook if is for garden tools many but it bend with ease and I think it works not too badly . 

 

Better light today and the mammoth rib is held in place by a hook that I painted. 

 

This hook as been painted black with enamel paint. The hooks in the uk cost about 50p each .

[Bobby Rico]

Some of my stands with wire and old iron weights as bases .

[Manticocerasman]

here are a couple of my handmade display stands:

 

first one was made for my crinoid calyx with steel wire and plastic plate:

I' still have to paint over the display as a finishing toutch.

 

I also made a few display stands out of bended steel plates for larger fossils:

 

 

[ReptileTooth]

Cool!

Is the first a Warhamme base?

[Manticocerasman]

1 hour ago, ReptileTooth said:

Cool!

Is the first a Warhamme base?

lol, yes it is

 

check out my post in the thread "show us your plastic dinosaurs "

 

 

[Ptychodus04]

 

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I also made a few display stands out of bended steel plates for larger fossils:

This is a great design. It is almost a totally hidden stand but allows your specimen to be displayed in a very eye pleasing way. I’ll be copying this idea for some of my ammonites.

[Bobby Rico]

4 hours ago, Manticocerasman said:

steel wire and plastic plate:

I' still have to paint over the display as a finishing toutch.

I like both your stands thank you for showing.

[caldigger]

The majority of my stands are not handmade (acrylic and steel ), but I do display items on found objects at times to give them a more natural setting. Here are a few.

Megalodon tooth on a beach found rock w/ attached seaweed root system 

Dinosaur coprolite on stone slab

Gomphothere tooth on driftwood

Mammoth tooth on a sliver of wood from the wood pile.

Mastodon tooth on stand made from tree bark

Bison horn core on a stand made from driftwood

Set of whale verts on a stand of an old board

[Bobby Rico]

2 hours ago, caldigger said:

but I do display items on found objects at times to give them a more natural setting. Here are a few.

I really like the idea of your displays.  Your found objects do set your fossils off nicely. Great mammal collection.   

[RJB]

Some purty dang nice stands here to say the least!!!   and some dang nice fossils!!!   Here is a handmade stand that is as natural as it can be.    

 

RB

[Ptychodus04]

On 2/4/2019 at 5:51 PM, RJB said:

Some purty dang nice stands here to say the least!!!   and some dang nice fossils!!!   Here is a handmade stand that is as natural as it can be.    

 

RB

Wow! That’s really life-like. 

[RJB]

9 minutes ago, Ptychodus04 said:

Wow! That’s really life-like

and its really not too hard to get the fake dirt under the fake fingernails.  Makes it look really life like? 

 

RB

[caldigger]

On 2/4/2019 at 3:03 PM, RJB said:

and its really not too hard to get the fake dirt under the fake fingernails.  Makes it look really life like? 

 

RB

I dont know...the coloring on that stand looks a bit off. I think you should strip it and start over. 

[rebu]

On 2/4/2019 at 1:00 AM, caldigger said:

The majority of my stands are not handmade (acrylic and steel ), but I do display items on found objects at times to give them a more natural setting. Here are a few.

Megalodon tooth on a beach found rock w/ attached seaweed root system 

Dinosaur coprolite on stone slab

Gomphothere tooth on driftwood

Mammoth tooth on a sliver of wood from the wood pile.

Mastodon tooth on stand made from tree bark

Bison horn core on a stand made from driftwood

Set of whale verts on a stand of an old board

Great way to display your fossils, love your stands. The meg tooth looks so cool like that. Well done

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, rebu said:

Great way to display your fossils, love your stands. The meg tooth looks so cool like that. Well done

When I saw it on the beach, I knew exactly what it was destined for.

[RJB]

On 2/4/2019 at 1:00 AM, caldigger said:

Megalodon tooth on a beach found rock w/ attached seaweed root system 

This stand you have for your meg is amazing!

 

Ron

[Fossil Claw]

About $0.50 to $0.60 in material a piece depending on how many pegs are used.

 

Now I just need to figure out how to make a template for consistency.

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

2 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

About $0.50 to $0.60 in material a piece

Thay look great and really economical. Thank you for sharing.

[Fossil Claw]

26 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Thay look great and really economical. Thank you for sharing.

For that price I plan to make a bunch of them to use instead of plastic Geo's holders.

[caldigger]

57 minutes ago, Fossil Claw said:

For that price I plan to make a bunch of them to use instead of plastic Geo's holders.

Plus the wood base gives it a more natural earthy feel. 

[Fossil Claw]

[caldigger]

I like the idea of the knobbed pegs, what are they from?