Hi all!
Not too much to report on Agwē (my Green River fish) this week; I've spent a large amount of time instead this week writing a "test SOP" on how to make Acryloid B-72 glue. This guide has pictures and required materials and instructions and so on, and I'm really hopeful that making these SOPs for the equipment and various procedures in the lab will be helpful for people working in Prep Lab when they need a reference for how something works or how something is done!
That's the hope, anyway. I'm optimistically looking forward to seeing how this comes together.
But in any case, that did take up a lot of time and limited my attention to Agwē. Still! I managed to unearth the first vertebrae and the surrounding area almost completely, which is really exciting! He might actually have a visible spine before the summer's out (man, I hope so)!
I've decided to proceed without using any sort of acid on the limestone-- I think I'd like to, but I just don't know how it'd work, so we'll have to see how using the dental tools works on the very hard-to-reach places along the spine and ribs.
And, I have to test out my new super, super thin Acryloid! Paleo Bond was looking too thick, so I mixed my own glue in the hopes of better preserving the detail on the bones. Fingers crossed!
~Becca
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