Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 22, 2016 13:30:11 GMT -5
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 22, 2016 13:32:47 GMT -5
From the start to the 10 days of running stag one,they cleaned up pretty good...But they also had the ends smoothed out,that I do not like at all... Hence,going back to old school way of polishing Baculites...Using the wheel...
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indiana
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Post by indiana on Mar 22, 2016 15:51:01 GMT -5
Can you make them that nice with the wheel?
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 22, 2016 16:22:18 GMT -5
Those are cool. Never heard of them before. I have something similar that has been sitting in a box for years but never knew what it might be. Do you think this is a baculite? I always thought it looked like a puzzle rock. Chuck
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Mar 22, 2016 16:57:53 GMT -5
Man those look great tumbled Michael. Guessing you will have to polish by hand or dry tumble. Edges rounded bothers you ? Why ? Patterns are off the chart.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 22, 2016 20:42:45 GMT -5
Can you make them that nice with the wheel? Yes I can/better........Thumbs up
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 22, 2016 20:43:10 GMT -5
Those are cool. Never heard of them before. I have something similar that has been sitting in a box for years but never knew what it might be. Do you think this is a baculite? I always thought it looked like a puzzle rock. Chuck Chuck,you have a huge Baculite-Thumbs up
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 22, 2016 20:44:23 GMT -5
Man those look great tumbled Michael. Guessing you will have to polish by hand or dry tumble. Edges rounded bothers you ? Why ? Patterns are off the chart. Just use to the rough edges when cutting or polishing the Baculite-it shows it as it was,even when the fossil was prepped... I guess I'm use to that...LOL I put them in pre-polish now,still experimenting with the process...
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Post by jamesp on Mar 22, 2016 20:46:04 GMT -5
Man those look great tumbled Michael. Guessing you will have to polish by hand or dry tumble. Edges rounded bothers you ? Why ? Patterns are off the chart. Just use to the rough edges when cutting or polishing the Baculite-it shows it as it was,even when the fossil was prepped... I guess I'm use to that...LOL Very cool fossil. The jig saw puzzle thing is real interesting.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Mar 23, 2016 0:05:18 GMT -5
Really like the pattern on them, I've never seen them polished up before.
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Post by jamesp on Mar 23, 2016 6:36:50 GMT -5
Man those look great tumbled Michael. Guessing you will have to polish by hand or dry tumble. Edges rounded bothers you ? Why ? Patterns are off the chart. Just use to the rough edges when cutting or polishing the Baculite-it shows it as it was,even when the fossil was prepped... I guess I'm use to that...LOL I put them in pre-polish now,still experimenting with the process... I would have to roll some of those into oval shapes and round them. Patterns just too crazy on them. Are they silicified or soft ? Looks like the edges rounded fast, must be soft. Don't the have a lot of soft calcite in them ? Insane: Scary critters
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 23, 2016 9:20:38 GMT -5
James,I would say about a 6 1/2 to 7 with hardness....The ends are the weakest (of course)...
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 23, 2016 9:22:09 GMT -5
Depending the location of the find,some are full of calcite and or crystals....Odd....Some are pure mud!!
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johnnymac1969
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Post by johnnymac1969 on Mar 23, 2016 18:18:19 GMT -5
Fossilman, those are so cool! I've been buying most of my rocks on eBay lately, I did a search for "rough Baculites compresses" and only got one rock to show up. Can you let me know where to buy some?
Thanks, John
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Post by jamesp on Mar 23, 2016 18:52:08 GMT -5
James,I would say about a 6 1/2 to 7 with hardness....The ends are the weakest (of course)... oK. So they are hard enough to tumble polish. Darn. I do not remember seeing them sold. I know you collect yours. I tumble my coral, also a fossil. Wood, palm, bone, all that stuff is cool tumble material. If I find mohs 6-7 baculites they would be getting the tumble treatment.
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Post by napoleonrags on Mar 23, 2016 20:30:56 GMT -5
Amazingly beautiful and funky. Where in the wide, wide world of sports does a body find such wonderfulness and dancing snuffeulupaguses?
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es355lucille
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Post by es355lucille on Mar 23, 2016 23:37:31 GMT -5
That is the wildest pattern! Very cool I can say as I recall ever seeing this in the past. I will have to look for some of that.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 24, 2016 9:39:10 GMT -5
Fossilman, those are so cool! I've been buying most of my rocks on eBay lately, I did a search for "rough Baculites compresses" and only got one rock to show up. Can you let me know where to buy some? Thanks, John Most Baculites are self collected and really not sold on Ebay or other sites.....I'm headed to Montana this summer for a reunion,plus agate and fossil hunting-I can see what I can come up with (to sell)...
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 24, 2016 9:40:28 GMT -5
Amazingly beautiful and funky. Where in the wide, wide world of sports does a body find such wonderfulness and dancing snuffeulupaguses? I find mine in Montana (central areas)...Can be found in southern Canada too and South Dakota...
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es355lucille
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Post by es355lucille on Mar 26, 2016 10:53:38 GMT -5
Cool, I had to go look this up to what the heck it was.
Baculites ("walking stick rock") is an extinct cephalopod genus with a nearly straight shell, included in the heteromorph ammonites. The genus, which lived worldwide throughout most of the Late Cretaceous, was named by Lamarck in 1799.[3]
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