Abalone shells for you casters!

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Carl Fisher

Carl Fisher

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On a recent trip to the beach, we picked up a good amount of abalone shells. Lots are smaller fragments while there are a few larger "almost" full shells. Haven't done anything with them yet other than to collect them and put them in a bag in the garage. They still need to be cleaned I suppose but didn't want to put any effort into it if nobody wanted them.

I'll send a small flat rate box for FREE to anyone who can cast them. If you are able to cast more than a few, I'd like the opportunity to get one sent back my way, but it's not required.

Thanks!
 
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The dust created through the grinding and cutting of abalone shell is dangerous; appropriate safeguards must be taken to protect people from inhaling these particles. An N95-rated dust respirator, a ventilation system, and wet grinding are requirements to working abalone shell safely. The calcium carbonate dust is a respiratory irritant and the particles can penetrate into the lower respiratory tree and cause irritant bronchitis and other respiratory irritation responses. The usual symptoms are cough and sputum production, and secondary infections can occur. If there are proteins left in the shell matrix, it is also possible that they can trigger an allergic (asthmatic) attack. Allergic skin reactions can also occur.
 
Do you mind if I split up what I have between you and another member who sent me a PM? I don't know how much shell is needed per blank or per use. I'm kinda winging it here.
 
It actually appears I may have been misinformed about the type of shell this is. The coloring looked right but as best I can tell from some research, these are pen shells. So that being said they may be worthless to casters, may not...I don't know enough to make that call. The members have been contacted with the corrected information.

Please close this post and thanks.
 
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