Becca here!
Progress this week with my fish fossil, Agwē~
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| Agwē as of 19 July 2012 |
I've been focusing on cleaning and gluing the head especially around the jaw so far. It's the most-finished part of the fossil, so I wanted to do final touches and use the penetrant stabilizer glue (as Mike suggested) to make sure that, while I'm working on the rest of Agwē, his head stays in one nice unbroken piece.
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| Red circle indicates where most of my attention has been concentrated... |
I'm planning on moving on to the actual vertebrae starting next week, and with luck, that'll go swimmingly (ack, fish pun). The glue seemed to work really well in holding everything together, and I think I'm getting the hang of the tools now. So progress is made! On to the spine!
I've been considering trying out diluted HCl (10%) to clear some of the limestone, but I've never tried this before. Thoughts?
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