Hi all! Becca again!
So it's been a while since I last updated you all on Agwē, my Green River fish.
I've had a ton of progress on the first three vertebrae, which I'm incredibly excited about. I can actually see them now!
I've been focusing on this area shown here for the last two weeks, once again using hand tools in the form of dental picks. I've also been doing a ton of gluing-- I recently made my own incredibly thin thing acryloid to use on my specimen, since I was discovering that Paleo Bond penetrant stabilizer, while brilliant, was actually losing some of the detail. Even that was still too thick, so I mixed an acryloid that's much more acetone than bead, and I've been impressed with the results so far. It's not as strong of a glue as I'd like, but that's the price I pay for keeping all the detail visible, I suppose!
Now to tackle the rest of the spine. Slowly but surely...
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