ScottM Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Hi all, On a recent trip to Sharktooth Hill in Bakersfield, we had a heartbreaker when the shovel struck what turned out to be our biggest tooth, a 2"+ hastalis or planus, and busted the root. So I figured this was as good a place as any to try my hand at fixing it up. In hindsight maybe I should have tried first with something I cared a little less about. Here it is after gluing. I then purchased a "earth color kit" of Apoxie sculpt at did my best to match the color. It was easy to work with, but not so easy to get the color just right since I could only mix pink, natural, orange, and bronze. I think I did ok, not great. Then I had an idea for trying to get a better color match. I found a piece of root from another partial tooth from the same site. It was a close color match. So I ground up some of it into powder and applied it to the still-pliable Apoxy sculpt. Improvement! I'm pretty happy with the results although I know there's plenty of room for improvement. Any advice for future attempts will be happily accepted. Thanks! Scott 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praefectus Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 It looks great! I may try this myself with some of my busted shark teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Well done! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Looks great . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Scott, I think you did a fantastic job. Most of the teeth have some mottling to the colors anyway so it looks quite natural to have some variance to the root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Id say you did purty good. I bet you had fun too. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Nice job! It looks like brand new except it’s a couple million years old. Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 I wish I could say my first restoration looked that good. Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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