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Post by broseph82 on Jun 7, 2021 19:52:53 GMT -5
Oh no, you can definitely call them stinky. Don’t hold back friend. lol Chiapas amber has a smell to it. Fordite will give you a fume headache after a while. Tiger iron is messy, Jaspilite (red stuff from Michigan) will bleed everywhere. Boulder opal is crazy messy both in the trim saw and on wheels. Hematite mess mess. I guess anything stone with hematite in it will be messy. Jet-messy. I guess "stinky" is in the nose of the beholder. After enough time smelling things that grow in labs, the threshold gets higher, I suppose. DARPA once gave out grants to develop a stink bomb (truly!), but no one was able to find a universally offensive scent.  I will confirm that hematite-containing material is messy, as is a lot of red jasper. Crazy lace with red matrix, too, for that matter. I haven't worked with a lot of Fordite, but I've heard that if you get a lot of solvent fumes, then it's not the genuine, "old-stock" material, but, rather, recently "harvested." This younger material is supposedly also softer. Yes the fordite I have definitely is newer and not the real old stuff. Fumes galore. I won’t work it because of the strong fumes and headaches it causes. Forgot about crazy lace. The red likes to run. I’ve been told whale bone will smell like salt water. Can anyone confirm? |
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Post by stephan on Jun 8, 2021 11:19:35 GMT -5
I guess "stinky" is in the nose of the beholder. After enough time smelling things that grow in labs, the threshold gets higher, I suppose. DARPA once gave out grants to develop a stink bomb (truly!), but no one was able to find a universally offensive scent.  I will confirm that hematite-containing material is messy, as is a lot of red jasper. Crazy lace with red matrix, too, for that matter. I haven't worked with a lot of Fordite, but I've heard that if you get a lot of solvent fumes, then it's not the genuine, "old-stock" material, but, rather, recently "harvested." This younger material is supposedly also softer. Yes the fordite I have definitely is newer and not the real old stuff. Fumes galore. I won’t work it because of the strong fumes and headaches it causes. Forgot about crazy lace. The red likes to run. I’ve been told whale bone will smell like salt water. Can anyone confirm? To me whale bone has the same smell as dino bone -- "burnt." |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jun 8, 2021 19:09:09 GMT -5
Yes the fordite I have definitely is newer and not the real old stuff. Fumes galore. I won’t work it because of the strong fumes and headaches it causes. Forgot about crazy lace. The red likes to run. I’ve been told whale bone will smell like salt water. Can anyone confirm? To me whale bone has the same smell as dino bone -- "burnt." - I'll concur with this. I haven't smelled salt water...only burnt flesh. And yes Stephan, I'm sure it wasn't MY flesh that was burning when I was cutting it...only when I'm using the flat lap and catch my knuckles!  |
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Post by stefan on Jun 11, 2021 15:29:58 GMT -5
Messy- Anything with hematite. Stinky- Anything that was once alive but now if turned to stone (I tried to do some Fossil limestone and actually gagged from the stink).
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