FranzBernhard Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 On 6/2/2021 at 9:32 PM, RJB said: anybody want to come over and hold me. Yes, here ! I love the tail the way it is! Its broken, but still complete(?). Imagine the story behind it, why does it look like they way it looks? What was going on? Nothing a perfect tail can tell . Franz Bernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Wow!! Another gorgeous fish I've never heard of! Great work! This thread keeps getting better and better. can't wait to see what's next. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 I just fishished up this Nematonotus longispinus from Lebanon today. It was an easy prep being that it was a split fish. I did remove some rock on the best half and I did wash up both sides very carefully. They cut these fish using a water saw and there is some residue left by that. In this photo of both halves you can see some extra rock below the fish on the left side that came off the fish on the right side. In this photo you can see that I have removed the extra rock below the fish. I also exposed the tail end of the little tiny fish just below the tail of the main fish. I then gave a very thin coat of Glyptal over the intire fish including the tiny one. Holds any flakyness in place and brings out the fish a little bit for the eye. Right now this one is in the garage with a wall hanger glued on with 2 part epoxy and in a day or so it will be fully cured and ready to go onto the wall. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Wow! Great looking fish! Great job again! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 11, 2022 Author Share Posted December 11, 2022 Looks like its been awhile since I've posted anything on this thread? Not that I haven't been working on any Lebanese fossils, in fact been working on quite a few. Been going crazy on making video's and giving less time to the forum. Sorry folks. But,,,,,,,, I ordered 4 boxes of prep projects from Lebanon and even though I've got some very large projects going on everywhere, I decided to take care of some of the smaller stuff yesterday. That big stuff really beats me up nowadays. Here is a picture of some small fish and shrimp slabs. They were literally covered in dry slurry from being underneath their water saw when they cut all there slabs and they arrived extremely dirty, but nothing some water and a tooth brush couldn't handle. The double specimen lower left came off the back of the big slab while taking off rock to make the back nice and flat. If you look closely you can see where I scribed off a small bit of rock to expose more antenna. I did put fossil sauce on some of these specimens. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 What is your fossil sauce recipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Scylla said: What is your fossil sauce recipe? Its kinda like Paraloid 72. Glyptal mixed with Acitone. I mix 2 parts glyptal to 8 parts acitone, or there abouts RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holdinghistory Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) Nicely done! These Lebanese fish are very tricky to prep. Edited December 14, 2022 by holdinghistory 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 On 12/13/2022 at 6:52 PM, Scylla said: What is your fossil sauce recipe? I was just going through the latter part of this thread and saw your post. I appologize for this late response. Most folks use the pariloid stuff, but I use Glyptal mixed with acitone to a watery consistancy, about 1 part glyptal to 4, 5 or 6 parts acitone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 I know I dont post as much as I used to here. I have fallen in love with making fossil video's. Thats taking up most of my time nowadays. Anyways, I broke down and spent some serious moneys and now have a ton of Lebanese fossil fish projects to do. I cleaned up one section of my big garage and set up some saw horses with long boards and then covered those with sheets of plywood. One the 4 boxes of fish fossils arrived I unwrapped it all that got it all organized. Been super busy washing and gluing and clamping these last few days to get them ready for prep. One can only imagine the fun and excitement I'm having!!! Here is a picture of only unpacking 2 boxes. 2 more to go RB Hard to see in this photo, but there are 3 different species of Picnodonts, one Spanidon, Guitar fish, Eurypholis and more. Love the challenges of getting these back together and such. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilhunter21 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Cheers and Shalom -Micah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 26, 2023 Author Share Posted March 26, 2023 Gunna start calling myself, Mr Glue Man. Been doing it for days now. RB Here is day 4 of tryin to get all the pieces of this beauty back together. Here is another picnodont that now only needs a little crack repair and clean up. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilhunter21 Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Looking good, Ron! Those fish are pretty neat looking. Cheers and Shalom, -Micah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 15 hours ago, FossilDAWG said: Pop corn and patience Don. I've got about 15 projects going! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 @RJB, Those look to be some nice specimens 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted April 23, 2023 Author Share Posted April 23, 2023 Lots of gluing, both sides were in many pieces, lots of rock transfers and miles of crack repair, but I finally got these beauts done! Fish measures almost 5.5 inches wide and almost 8 inches tall! I did make a video of this from start to finish showing everything I did but it wont be published for a week or so? All in all, im almost happy with how these turned out. Giving one side to my youngest son Coleton. He should be happy. RB 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Beautiful! Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 @RJB Those two came out really nicely 1 MotM August 2023 - Eclectic Collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted April 26, 2023 Author Share Posted April 26, 2023 For anyone who wants to see what I did, how I go about rock repair, then here ya go. A 38 minute video of repairing this, "broken up in many many pieces" pos/neg fossil fish from Lebanon. Very cool Pycnodont! https://youtu.be/LCs2YkPSYWM 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjfriend Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 That is a very cool looking fish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Glad I found this thread again and caught up. Interesting and beautiful. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 28, 2023 Author Share Posted May 28, 2023 1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Glad I found this thread again and caught up. Interesting and beautiful. I'm glad you did too. I confess I found it quite fun going over it again. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted October 28, 2023 Author Share Posted October 28, 2023 Boy o boy, this video making is really gettin in the way of my posting here on The Fossil Forum. But Oh what fun I am having. Anyways, this is the second shark I have prepped out from Lebanon. This one is much much better than the first one. First one being from 2 different sharks even though the guy I got it from swears its all from the same fish. Nope!!! I doubt I will ever get my money back, don't trust him one bit. But enough of that, this one was a really fun prep along with some scary parts. I had to do some transfer and I did not know at all if it would work or if it did, how well it would work. Here is a pic of the finished project but if you want to watch the prep video of it, here it is. Just published it this morning A real challenge but now hanging on one of the walls in my office. Lots of the vert column were on the opposing rock but was transferred successfully. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Very nice! Your fossil vids on youtube is what got me started with fossil prepping. I really enjoy them. I don't often see sharks with soft body tissue like that, very neat! Great job. 1 -Jay ''...science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.'' -Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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