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fossils and faux fossils
Few weeks ago I bought some ammonite fossil slices from Shelley, and got to
see in real life how they are inside. I had some ammonites here, but I have not seen the insides anywhere else than in the books and net. Now that I saw them, I knew I had to try to cane them. I made the cane and some beads today and for the first time in loooong time I have the instant need to share them with the world So here is the page http://porro.claymountain.com/fossil.html Cant wait to show the necklace that I am making with faux fossil and beads... I really hope I will have time to string it tomorrow !!! PöRRö *********************************** http://porro.claymountain.com http://www.saunalahti.fi/theporro/ |
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Those are stunning. You did an excellent job on duplicating the real ones.
"PoRRo" wrote in message ... Few weeks ago I bought some ammonite fossil slices from Shelley, and got to see in real life how they are inside. I had some ammonites here, but I have not seen the insides anywhere else than in the books and net. Now that I saw them, I knew I had to try to cane them. I made the cane and some beads today and for the first time in loooong time I have the instant need to share them with the world So here is the page http://porro.claymountain.com/fossil.html Cant wait to show the necklace that I am making with faux fossil and beads... I really hope I will have time to string it tomorrow !!! PöRRö *********************************** http://porro.claymountain.com http://www.saunalahti.fi/theporro/ |
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Very nice and inspirational.
"Tonja L." wrote in message om... Those are stunning. You did an excellent job on duplicating the real ones. "PoRRo" wrote in message ... Few weeks ago I bought some ammonite fossil slices from Shelley, and got to see in real life how they are inside. I had some ammonites here, but I have not seen the insides anywhere else than in the books and net. Now that I saw them, I knew I had to try to cane them. I made the cane and some beads today and for the first time in loooong time I have the instant need to share them with the world So here is the page http://porro.claymountain.com/fossil.html Cant wait to show the necklace that I am making with faux fossil and beads... I really hope I will have time to string it tomorrow !!! PöRRö *********************************** http://porro.claymountain.com http://www.saunalahti.fi/theporro/ |
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HI PöRRö
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. 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. Thanks for sharing, as usual you have great ideas. Varda |
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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... -- PöRRö *********************************** http://porro.claymountain.com http://www.saunalahti.fi/theporro/ |
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