Varda wrote;
They are nice but I think that to make them look more like a real
fossil you need to put the segmentations within the curly part.

Yes and no. In this one that I used to make the ammonite there was barely
any segmentation lines visible. I have few segment lines in the cane but not
many. For the next light one I will have to make more as I too miss them
there even though they are not that visible in many of the real ammonite
slices I have.
I have always thought that they are in every fossil, but I just got email
from someone who explained that some of these fossils are either rotten or
are from different period of time where the segmentations have been less.
Apparently ammonites were not shell- type of crawlers but more very soft
octopus like things. I always have thought they were sortof "stronger" and
more like snails, but at least my source tells me they were swimmers and had
particles coming out.

I found some more fossils at fleamarket near our summer cottage. I took
pictures of those and put them on the fossil page at
http://porro.claymountain.com/fossil.html

In the dark ammonite slice the segmentations are really really noticable.
The dark lines are almost like "bullseyes in the line" (sort of OOOO-
jellyrol cane). If I compare that to the light coloured ones I bought from
shelley, there really seems to be huge difference in the general colouring
too: in this the colour from inside the roll seems to be more consistent
with the outer colour. In the ones Shelley sent me the colour varies a lot
from inside out...

To
cover an egg with slices from such a cane can be cool. Even to give it
a rough look like it was found in nature would be as interesting as a
smooth look.

Good idea. I have already started an egg with slice of the cane and made
some filligree around it. That looks pretty darn cool too...

Can someone guess wheather I am exited or not ??? Grin...
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