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Fossil Prep Blog
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This is a fun channel to subscribe to if you want to learn how to prepare and clean fossils. I found a lack of info online about this and decided to start this so that other people who have questions can learn from what I am doing. I am learning as I go along, so learn from my mistakes and have some fun!! If you have some experience and want to offer suggestions please do so! And feel free to ask questions!
Zach
Zach
Cleaning an Ammonoid Fossil
Watch as I try to clean up an Ammonoid fossil! It has a much harder matrix then he trilobites that I have been working on so I have to use mechanical methods to finish this one. I only have an air scribe right now. Unfortunately finishing this fossil will have to wait.
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Episode 4: My favorite Trilobite
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Hello everyone! I would appreciate it if you would make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any new videos! And share this video with other people who are fossil enthusiasts! Welcome! I just finished working on my favorite trilobite! It looks quite nice, but it was not with out some learning opportunities (some of you call them mistakes lol) watch it and learn more about how I got it too look s...
Quickisode: Trilobite Anatomy
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Learn about Trilobite Anatomy, so you can follow right along with me while I work on trilobite fossils!
Fossil prep blog episode 3
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I learned that if you use air abrasive that it is a good idea to blow parallel to grooves and lines. This way the ridges don't take too much of a beating while you remove the matrix!
Quickisode: The Bucket
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Ever wanted to know how to build a dust trap for $20 or less? Watch this and you will know how! Wanted to know how they work? Watch this and you will know how! lol. I did not invent this. I was asked to build this and I thought that I would share with you what I did. Here is the link for the instructions I followed: www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=65.0 Thanks user : goodfellow! It work...
Fossil Prep Blog Episode 2: Different Pressures Help Expose the Fossil
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Watch as I use the sandblasting machine to carefully expose some trilobite fossils! I learn that different pressures on the sandblasting machine are helpful and can be used to deal with lots of matrix with out damaging the fossil. Watch the last episode here: ua-cam.com/video/sS_wvF4v2VE/v-deo.html Check out my blog at: www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/blog/165-fossil-preparation-blog/
Fossil Preparation of Trilobites!
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Look at what I am doing for fossil prep! Come learn with me! I show you what rock I will be working on, the tools and set up I have access to, and how I work the rock and how I clean the fossils! I am new to this and want to become skilled in fossil Prep! Learn what I did and what worked and what didn't.
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I kept wanting to tell you to work the removal away from the fossil itself rather than blowing towards it. I enjoyed it though. I have a downright fetish for trilobites and their lunar analogs.
I too am about to get fossilized in my dirt. I need to get a shower.
Damn they're hot
Regarding the underside; are you sure this isn't a molted shell, rather than an actual animal?
Really good video! Definitely helps to know the anatomy. Now as a fat man, I have to wonder if trilobites tasted like crab😂
All I could think is once it popped out of the matrix he should have flipped it over. That side would have been perfect thanks to nature ;)
Great video
Beautiful work man. I can sympathize
I treasure things like these, if i only knew One could & How, and that i enjoyed this as much as i do .... {{sigh}} I'm a Sloth when it comes to information; Finding, Learning & Remembering. right about Prep info, but - more cometh. tho i have no equipment nor 'fossils', (maybe) yet, I Will remember this . .. for now. lol *Thanks!*
Zach, you still around? I want to connect with you. I’m just not sure how to do it lol
I live in Utah. Great place for all sorts of fossils. Thanks for the informative video! I doubt I’ll ever do something like prepare a fossil(too shaky), but it is fascinating to watch. And I love to learn new things.
amazing! i have a ton of trilobites from the same area that i need to clean up. thanks for sharing this!
ua-cam.com/video/YcHSFrk0Rzs/v-deo.html
I actually use a dremel tool myself with a carbonized wire brush. It keeps the fossils black and removes the matrix around the fossil nicely… at least that is my experience with it
That's exactly what I used, fossil is nice and shiney and the matrix is softer and removes decently easy. Would've been cool to have the tool that broke up the rock to find them though, I just used a rock hammer to split the layers and find what I could.
What is this preparation device?
They are related to horseshoe crabs.
The next time you get mad at someone and you slap their face, and they tell you that they don't like it.... Trilobite.
How long was the lifespan of a trilobite ?
Oh wow, I think I just found a relic!
Where I live it's easy to find fossiles from the cretatious: shark teeth, zee-egels, shells etc. I would love to spend a day in that wheeler shale though... trilobites. I have to buy them...a bit jealeous I am
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do you have any fall vidios id love to watch a fule 4-6 houers of this
Great video.
How is such a pneumatic hammer called? Where to look for it?
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If I had that kind of instruments when I was a 13y old fossil hunter.... One time I found the fossilized shoreline of about 235 millions years old beach full of cracked shells in Cene (italy) along the river bed, that place is full of fossilized little shells and sure much more, the problem is that rock is really really fragile.
Wow! I don't have anything close to what you have lol
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Nice video. Thank you.
use dolomite powder dude. the mohs hardness of alumina is harder than any fossils I know.
I've gotten some really nice specimens from that formation. Never hunted there,but ordered some shale from Utah rich in trilobites and Brachiopods. Waiting on my CP air scribe to arrive Wednesday to excavate the fossils out. Don't have an air abrasive yet still in market for a nice affordable one.
Nice videos. Thanks for sharing. What nozzle diameter to use?
may I ask you -how much is the smallest fassel you worked on in the video.am doing research with my kid.
How can I get that airpen?
9:30 how can i get that pen?
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Hiya Zachster! Nice vidz, thank you! As a newbie myself, I am about to start my air blasting (gently as per your videos!) and am really interested in the pen you are using to sand blast with? - not the air chisel or other preparation pen, the actual pen that emits the abrasive material. It looks nice and small? I only have a Hobbyists type of gun - more an airbrush really with a tiny gravity feed tub on top for the oxide etch. All the other blasting equipment that I have seen is for Garage use and way too big and powerful for any delicate fossils. I have a shedload of ammonites about 3 to 5 inches across that have been prepped with my pins and chisels, I now need to get blasting gently. Any chance of a link or something to what you use please? Maybe a picture of the 'gun-end' of your setup would help me as well? Thanks very much, Yours Sincerely, Steve Barnett (London UK)
You should make videos again! This channel is really neat. :D
love collecting trilobites from the wheeler!! one of the most fossiliferous formations there is!
Is this a original trilobite fossill or a cast of a fossil for learning????
it was embedded in the rock...
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Why did the little trilobite have to go? They stayed together for millions of years, so why not keep them together??? Such a shame...
Interesting video! Yet I think it would be better if you dropped the music and instead let us hear only the sound of the tools you're using.
I have some of these fossils. I have let the rain loosen the rocks. Can you show how to do this with just your left hand? I had a stroke when I was a kid. My right arm is very weak.
I have seen videos and read of using sand bags to secure the sample being worked on. The idea is to allow both hands to be used on a sample, but this may help in your situation as well.
Trilobites, an aquatic arthropod similar to the horseshoe crab.
Hi! so glad someone said this. : }
Great video. Great job.
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