Ancientwood
Member
Hi all,
I've had this on the casting and stabilization forum getting advice and help from other members, but it's complete now so I thought I'd share it here. Hope it's not poor etiquette to have it on two forums...
I work at a diamond mine in Canada and from time to time we manage to recover some mummified wood from the orebody that was deposited in the forming rock mass when the diamond bearing volcanoes were erupting 55 million years ago (give or take 600,000 years) because of the unique way the ancient trees were emplaced in the craters, the wood didn't get mineralized (petrified). I managed to get permission to take a small piece home that I was able to stabilize with Cactus Juice and eventually turn into this pen. I opted not to cast it after stabilizing because the character of the wood is really in the texture and voids. To top it off, I added one of our stones to the top.
Unfortunately I'm writing from a mobile device so I can only add one picture per post, so bare with me... The first pic is of the wood after it was excavated, unfortunately, most pieces are destroyed by the blasting, but this one managed to be free dug from the weaker rock (sorry, I was holding the camera upside down)
I've had this on the casting and stabilization forum getting advice and help from other members, but it's complete now so I thought I'd share it here. Hope it's not poor etiquette to have it on two forums...
I work at a diamond mine in Canada and from time to time we manage to recover some mummified wood from the orebody that was deposited in the forming rock mass when the diamond bearing volcanoes were erupting 55 million years ago (give or take 600,000 years) because of the unique way the ancient trees were emplaced in the craters, the wood didn't get mineralized (petrified). I managed to get permission to take a small piece home that I was able to stabilize with Cactus Juice and eventually turn into this pen. I opted not to cast it after stabilizing because the character of the wood is really in the texture and voids. To top it off, I added one of our stones to the top.
Unfortunately I'm writing from a mobile device so I can only add one picture per post, so bare with me... The first pic is of the wood after it was excavated, unfortunately, most pieces are destroyed by the blasting, but this one managed to be free dug from the weaker rock (sorry, I was holding the camera upside down)