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Hi, I found these teeth several years ago on a beach near Venice, Florida. At the time, I didn’t notice the one with what appears to be a primitive type carving on it. I do not normally hunt nor collect shark teeth so any expert opinions would be great appreciated:)
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HAPPY EASTER AND THE HOLY WEEK. THE LAST SUPER, hand carved by me. Bass wood. I did the carving work for a friend at the Seniors Center. Around 2004.
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Large Yongshunensis, Rough Prep or Partially Faked?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I will be receiving soon what looks to be a large youngshunensis trilobite, while I am aware of fakes from china I'm not sure if specimens of this trilobite like this just have real rough prep work done to them or if maybe there is some sort of carving involved. Any knowledgeable feedback to whether its a keeper or not will be greatly appreciated, always wanted to nab one of these. -
Hello, I almost die, when I was extracting this ammonite from wall of abandoned limestone quarry. So, that's my very first stone preparation, of 200 mm (7,8") ammonite (Perisphinctes), which I found near my hometown - Kraków, Poland. OK, I know, it's not so big, but the largest I have ever found. As You can see I got carried away, so it's half natural specimen, and half carving. Preparation I done with Dremel Engraver and some chisels I made from old files. I enjoyed it well
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I've been doing prep work for someone on and off for a couple of years who brings me a lot of ammonites from the southern German Sinemurian and Hettangian exposures. They are often quite large ammonites belonging to the family of the Arietitidae. I was working on one of them for him a while ago as it became apparent that a lot of whorls were missing, so he decided it wouldn't be worth working on it any further. I figured I might be able to make something out of it, so he gave it to me in exchange for a few hours of prep work. Here's what it looked like at that point. The missing whorls are circled in red. Also the innermost whorls are missing. I've already had some experience "faking" whorls at missing points, carving them out of the matrix using the air pen, alternating between flat chisel and point, but I knew that this job was going to take some time. I'd already spent almost 4 hours reaching the point in the photo above and then spent another 8 hours carving, modelling and doing a bit of abrading in between before reaching step 2 where that part of the job was completed more or less to my satisfaction. I needed another 6 hours of abrading to smooth everything out, with the occasional interlude in between to trim off the odd bit of excess matrix here and there. And here's the end product coated in rember. An Arietites solarium (Quenstedt 1863) with a diameter of 46cm. The whorl breadth at the aperture is 13cm.
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So I was working on a Parasaurolophus and Dodo skull before. For my next project I've chosen Bambiraptor. It was nice to try something really small this time. Though it's quite hard to make some of the smaller details with such a soft material. Carved from foam. I'm mostly done with the skull. Just need to finish up the teeth and jaw. Parts of the appendicular skeleton so far. Stay tuned for updates.
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Hey guys, I found this small curious fragment. I thought it was interesting how it appears to have a thin hole bored thru it, and small tooling marks on both sides, in oddly geometric configurations. It's relatively light, not like a rock, and has small tiny dots on some parts as you can see from some of the photos.
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about 6 years ago I found both of these oddballs in the bottom of Lake Murray in Carter County, Oklahoma. One is what appears to be fossilized 1/4' bubbles that extend up off of the cluster of bubbles, the other is a very smooth, flat rock that looks like a carving of some sort, and has a lip on one side on the bottom. they were found in less than 6 feet of water with a muddy bottom. the strange thing is that Lake murray is manmade, dug sometime in the forties. also, if you don't mind, what is a good place to buy small fossils(shells, trilobites,small fish, etc.) and cheaper gems/minerals?there isn't a very good shop or site to find them anywhere near here. Thanks!
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