A small amount can be used to affix a crystal or rock into the cavities of the shelf for more stabilization. **I include a few small squares of "mounting putty" with each shelf. If hung in a doorway, it should be an open, pass through doorway without a door, so as to not disturb any items you’re displaying in the cutouts when the door opens or closes.ĭisplay items at your own risk as I cannot be held responsible for items which fall off the shelf. Each of these carvings has been sanded by to remove the majority of the burrs, as well as being hand-stained.Ĭan be used standing up on a surface or hung in a pass through doorway with the installed L-bracket. Final Thoughtsĭo you tend to over collect like I do? Wouldn’t it be great if all of us rockhounds started showing off all the cool things we find? I highly recommend getting a rock display of your own going! If you’re still looking for the right display case, I’m confident that any of the cases I mentioned in this post will do a great job.This is a wooden carving made from Birch and an environmentally conscious composite core.
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If you’d like to learn how to make this type of display, you can read all about it here. It’s a very easy project and doesn’t cost much to make.
What I like about this display case is that it creates a floating effect for the specimen. Just in case you’re looking for inspiration to do something similar. So I wanted to share with you what I ended up putting together and how I did it. Those are nice, but not the look I was going for. We’ve all seen the display cases where the artifact is pressed between a foam back and the glass of the box.
But it can also be used for rocks and minerals as well. This is a display case I recently made for an artifact I found. That’s because it’s one that I made myself! The last rock collection box on our review list is a little different in style then the other display cases that we’ve reviewed in this post. Better to be displayed and enjoyed by someone than sitting in a box all by themselves. If I can’t find a good trade, then I will give them away. I assume this holds true for fossils as well. When talking specifically about mineral trading, John Betts recommends trading with other collectors from different regions. Then I will take the rest and find someone to trade with. My plan is to choose my best fossil specimens and display them. Betts states, “Eliminating specimens from your collection is a good thing, not bad.” There’s no reason to hang onto a collection of fossils that no one will probably ever see again. I’ve decided to take the advice from an article written by John Betts over at. Right now, I’m focusing on my most recent collection of Oregon beach fossils. So that’s when I set out to start looking for the best rock collection box. And that’s where they sat.īut after all that work of going out and looking for these fossils, it would be a crime to show them off in a rock display case or rock collection box. We put them into our cardboard box and brought them home. The problem is, we ended up with enough sea shell fossils to give away to every fossil junkie in the world. So what did we do? Like any good rock collector, we began collecting. We did however, find many other small fossils that were easily accessible without tools. Unfortunately, since this was an impromptu trip, we didn’t have the rock collecting tools needed to collect fossil specimens from out of the sandstone cliffs. Almost every rock you picked up had some kind of a fossil in it. The agates were difficult to find, but the fossils littered the beach. The beaches we visited are well known for producing agates, fossils and petrified wood. Just recently, I took my kids on a trip to the beach along the Oregon coast.
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