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Beads!!!!! => Show and Tell -Finished Beads => Topic started by: Phishisgroovin on May 11, 2025, 12:40:26 PM
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So lately i picked up a lazer engraver on Amazon.
I have been tinkering for a couple years though making elk and deer buttons with antler.
For say hat bands, tribal medicine bags, etc.
After burning a deep image of a cross into a button of elk antler, i purchased a big bottle of CA GLUE to stabilize the buttons i cut.
Seeing a small bottle of alleged turquoise crush, i decided ty try an inlay.
Just sharing my latest creation.
Phish.
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Turquoise bottle was labeled turquoise, i have never seen turquoise turn white after sanding. Oh well
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Probably a dyed Howlite. My neighbor wanted some cheap Turquoise looking material to put in some coasters he was making his daughter so I heat dyed some howlite for him with similar results, dye went surface deep and any sanding showed the white of the howlite.
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yeah, i crushed a bit of this and it broke up like a crystal or agate would.
Cheap Chinese fake.