jzerger
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I turned my first red Dino bone trustone and love it. What can I tell people about it and still be honest? Is there some real fossilized sediment in it making it really ancient (a million years?).
When I googled red dinosaur bone I got an explanation from a different vendor and explained it as follows:
"Fossilized prehistoric dinosaur bone from the fossil beds of Utah, many millions of years old, beautifully shaped and polished, these specimens have some amazing cell structures and colors. Highly agatized gemmy fossils, from red to powder blue, plus rare harvest and earthen colors. Museum quality specimens for collectors and hobbyists to display or to design into very special pieces of original jewelry. Dinosaurs thrived during the Mesozoic Age between 231 and 65 million years ago. These cabs are solid Jurassic artifacts, preserved for eternity, a family heirloom for the future."
I don't know if it is the same as Exotics Blanks sells or not. You could call the vendor you bought it from to confirm the preceding explanation. I don't know if this information helps you out or not. JMO.
Sorry if my reply to the OP was incorrect. Too bad I can't delete it, but I don't know how. I tried. :crying:
Having a long time background in Rock/Fossil collecting and Jewelry/Lapidary work. I will say that there is a difference in the terms names used in the two hobbies. Because the turning hobby uses different cutting and polishing tools. The products will be more resin based. For ease of working them with our standard tools and polishing materials.I thought that the Tru-Stone was supposed to imitate some type of gemstone somewhere. Usually I find a description of the tru-stone color at a jewelry site. Here is a blog that discussed Dino-bone and has pictures that resemble it:
Dinosaur bone jewelry « Snob Appeal Jewelry
I used to think that the gemstone that the tru-stone blank emulates was ground and put into the blank. Now I am pretty sure that is not true. Unless someone can correct me?
I do wonder what kind of stone they use. I would think that it is different for the Gold web blanks since they make the buffing wheels black.
Decorative Bowls, Home Furnishing
Since they say they use Semi-precious stone in the bowl making I am wondering now if semi precious stone is used in the composite pen blank material. Although when you look at the RT main website they say they manufacture IMITATION semi-precious stone for large scale jewelry production. I wish I knew for sure if they used just some of the Real semi-precious stone in the final material. It would make for a good story.![]()
I have quoted (from psi catalog) that "trustone blanks are made by a unique process of pulverizing semi-precious stones into a powder, then combines them with other natural pigments and resins". It made sense to draw the conclusion that there actually is "more than 85percent stone " in the blank.
But I could find no such "semi-precious" stone called red Dino bone. The reason Im concerned is that the trustone pens sell quite well for me (good story) and bring quite a bit more (as others have noted also). I Am trusting the claims of the Tru-Stone (trade marked) hold for other advertised trustone.
Tru-Stone™ consists of more than 85% actual stone so your project will shine and finish with an appearance that resembles genuine stone -
According to the FTC guidesthen combines them with other natural pigments and resins.
Which covers that part.[SIZE=+1] Other terminology, such as "synthetic" or the equivalent terms "cultured", "created" or "laboratory grown" must be used for materials which did not originate in Nature." [/SIZE]
Like I said in my other post.For the dino bone yes it might have bits and shards of dino bone, ground up into a powder along with some of the original matrix that it is found in. It may be a case of adding the color to enhance the reddish color of the matrix or if it a general grey shade of matrix it can be used to give a variety of colors of materials.
So the color is added to make it more appealing.other natural pigments