Another Ammonite repair and Prep

[@DavidOwen-t2d]

Finished my night shift at 3am but I had to watch this before bed. Fantastic!

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Cheers Dave :) appreciate it

[@terrydodsworth7350]

Lovely prep and ammonite, in my opinion the natural imperfections are what make em perfect, keep em coming 👍🏻

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Cheers for the kind words dude appreciated

[@am4790]

To solve the abrasion cabinet light flicker, drop your shutter speed on the camera down to 30. The lights are probably running at about 50hz so get your shutter speed under that and you should be golden. Love the vids and excitement of each piece.

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Ahh cheers for that :) I’ve built a new cabinet now! Ready for the new workshop , got a little update coming this week

[@keithmcgarrigle8921]

Thanks back in seat we support you.

[@puckletruscot7562]

Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to speak to me (Paul) at Charmouth on Monday, it was really cool to meet you. I stuck around for another couple of hours after you left and found some nice pieces for the collection. I didn't find any Ichthyosaur though :( Oh well, maybe next year I'll get lucky.

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Sorry for the late reply been away camping! Was really nice to meet you too, it’s such an awesome stretch of coastline, hopefully see you down there next time you are around.

[@nigeldibden9293]

Hi Dan, just found your channel. Your fossil preparation is second to none! Top work. I am a complete beginner and you inspire me to get out and find more fossils!

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Cheers for the kind words! Just in the process of setting up a fossil shop and workshop in Axminster, picked up the keys last week! Should have some more content coming out soon

[@creativegirlonfire]

Loving the videos 😊 I am a newbie to fossil hunting and was down in Charmouth on Thursday! Cant wait to come back! Found a really nice iron pyrite piece with several amonites and a shell on it!

[@eddie1173]

Bought my first ‘basic’ prep pen this week. Got myself a nice find recently on Charmouth beach and going to give it a go. What’s the worst that can happen!! Thanks for all the really useful guidance and inspiration.

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Go for it! Send me a picture when you’ve done it!

[@colinjacques3834]

Great to see you the other week on the beach, hope you managed to find something in the end. Col spilt an Asti straight through the middle, so he’s watching closely 🕵🏼‍♂️ Take care, hope to catch up in September 🤞🤞🤞 Col n Elle 👍👍

[@TheFossilAcademy]

If he needs a hand with it let me know! Was really good to see you too! Felt a bit bad I didn’t go down and see Col! Let me know when you are down in September

[@RobertMasek-l1n]

Hello Dan, I enjoyed your relaxing attitude and excellent dialogue. I would like to comment on three points of your video. #1 Please use a piece of foam on your vibrating air scribe. You do a lot of air scribing and it will add up to some serious arm problems. #2 I was thinking you should warn people not to glue their fingers together. It happens without the user even knowing. #3 I noticed the Texas Airsonics air abrasive machine behind you, I really love them for small detail work. Do you use it often? Bob

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Cheers for the kind words Bob, funny you should say that about the pens, I have started to get a bit of numbness in my hand after long sessions and am going to get some rubber covers to try and combat this a bit. Not used my Texas machine for a while now as one of the solenoids has burned out :( trying to source one but it seems the Texas air sonic company has gone under in the US :( got to keep my eye out on eBay for one

[@RobertMasek-l1n]

I use the Texas Air Sonics quite a bit and I know they are out of business but I did find a supplier of parts for the machines. I will get the contact info and pass it on to you. Bob

[@TheFossilAcademy]

@user-mo8bn7yx7q that would be awesome if you could my email is [e-mail]

[@craigdickinson8247]

Morning dan good to see you prepping again. I was hoping i coupd get some guidence on bone repair

[@TheFossilAcademy]

What type of bone? Where’s it from and what type of matrix?

[@craigdickinson8247]

@The Fossil Academy ichthyosaur rib, from the blue lias of penarth Wales. Being a complete amature I wasn't using the tools correctly and have unfortunately broken small pieces off in areas

[@stocktonjunction]

Love the prep vids 😀 would like to see how u do the filling on the cracks etc

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Just going to use a little bit of epoxy putty and touch it in with some acrylic to blend it. You can use Jolly Mastic, used for repairing marble, good for fossils as you can polish it and it comes in a number of natural looking colours. Looks like calcite veins, handy stuff

[@kam7005]

Brilliant

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Cheers my precious

[@tizianocaronni702]

Masterpiece!

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Thanks Tiziano! Appreciate that :)

[@fossil-freak_tom]

👍🤩

[@Williams63]

Hi Dan. I'm new to your channel and Im new into preping fossils. I've just watched this video and I Wonder, if any superglue can be used as I live in Denmark and we don't have the O3a glue overhere. Your work is amazing and I'm really looking forward to see new videos from you. Keep up the good work and be safe on the beaches.

[@TheFossilAcademy]

For sure! Try to find a place that stocks different thickness of super glue and go for a thin one, I would recommend you use a good accelerator spray with the thinner glues, if you only have thicker glue use clamps and wait at least 24 hours before starting to prep it. Will have new content coming soon, I’ve just taken on a new workshop with a little attached shop in Axminster. Will be opening soon to run prep courses.

[@Williams63]

Thank you for your answer. 😊 I Will see, what glue I can find and if I can find an accelerator as well. It sounds like a good idea with a workshop. Wish I could join, but I think it Will be quite a long trip to make even though, we do go to Scotland every now and then. Hm. Maybe we should go south next time 🤔 I mostly find trilobits and Ortchoceras in limestones here on the island and it could be fun preping those. Anyways. I wish you all the Best with both workshop, preping and findings. 🤞😊

[@Williams63]

Hi again. Sorry, but I have another question. What do you do, if you want to glue 2 parts of a stone together? I guess, you wont use the accelerator or? 🤔 Thank you in advance. 😊

[@Lesigo]

Dan, a while ago you gave us details about the replica behind you, can you remind me where you got it from please?

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Of course! This one was a broken one from The Heritage centre Phil let me have, Craig from natural selection fossils makes them and I think they go for £300, he does a number of different casts from real fossils, the one I have is an early one, not sure if Craig made it as the paint job on it isn’t as good as what he produces today. Think it’s www.naturalselectionfossils.com

[@Lesigo]

@@TheFossilAcademy Thank you, also when will you start selling your fossils, I refresh it everyday

[@damienbrown6764]

What’s your website called mate

[@TheFossilAcademy]

Hey dude sorry for the late reply, it’s called thefossilacademy.com I’m still building it at the moment, should have some stuff up for sale on there by the end of this weekend. I’m using Wix to build it but it’s not a very intuitive interface, trying to get my head around it :)

[@damienbrown6764]

@@TheFossilAcademy cheers mate Iv had a look on you’ve done a great job I’ll definitely be a customer when you put your pieces up

[@alanfoster3610]

I still have a bottle of gin for you matey , getting down there in \september ..hopefully get to say hello

[@michaelmccarthy2819]

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