Any fossilers wanna show off some photos?

[Lee Taylor]

What a BEAUTY! Where did you find this one, wRick?

I am cleaning some fossils today. Still working on my Mastodon with vinegar, baking soda, toothbrush, and water. I am fascinated with how quickly some fossils soak up water. Wire brushes and the buffer just did not seem to be the best path for the Mastodon tooth.

Gonna spray the two small ones with more aluminum oxide, then a vinegar scrub, then polishing compound and the buffer. I put the polishing compound directly on the tooth. The color of the compound has an effect on the final product.


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found condition / sprayed alum oxide / buffed with white polishing compound



polished without cleaning / alum oxide sprayed / polished after cleaning

 

[ScubaFrog01]

WOW...is all i can say! What I would do to find something like this.

 

[Lee Taylor]

found this clip on u-tube. this is what i am currently using to remove "river plaque" from small sharks teeth. will be on the look out for something faster.



here is what i had in mind when i purchased my little sprayer. this sprayer ROCKS. this sprayer will CLEAN SOME SHARKS TEETH. jump ahead to the 5:50 minute mark if you wanna see some action

 

[wRick]

So, anybody going to the Venice Shark Tooth Festival this weekend?

 

[Lee Taylor]

not going. every time i go to Venice I arrive back home $1000 lighter. I enjoy the diving there. Whether you find anything or not the dives are super easy and pleasurable. Plus I have a good friend in Fossilbabe and I always enjoy visiting with her. I may take a week off later on in the season and visit Venice for a week. Do some land hunts, visit the Peace river and Shark tooth creek. Maybe even dive the Suwanee. I plan to do some more diving here in South Carolina first. Bought a new mask and a potato rake for raking up some old sharks teeth. Cut the handle down to about 3 feet.

Isn't it the Auriculatus tooth that stands on its root?

 

[AeroMike]

...Isn't it the Auriculatus tooth that stands on its root?

That is what I am told but.......I have one Angustidens tooth that can stand on its root, and it is an Edisto river find too.

 

[scubadaddee]

i,ve heard conflicting statements on the teeth in question. May be tooth placement, i,ve always gone by if it can stand it was Auriculatus. At any rate I,ll take one by any name! Here are pictures of my version of Mike,s diving helmet with dive lights.

 

[Lee Taylor]

i like the new head mounted lighting system Phil.

ps: save me a seat next time you go fossil diving. gear packed. on hot stand by.

new fossil claw


dental floss and super glue


daydreaming



Debra (Fossilbabe) went to the Venice fossil show today. Check out her necklace.

 

[Lee Taylor]

This sounds interesting to me. I think I may attend. Mike if you and Vinson are available we should get together and swap a few words

A program at Fort Morris State Historic Site

Hittin a local river next weekend.

 

[Lee Taylor]

Visited some really good friends in Savannah Georgia yesterday and viewed some specimens from their excellent private fossil collections.

Slideshow of Fossils from the Coastal Georgia Rivers

SC diver/fossilers hit a Bakersfield CA land site