What is it? Win blessings!

[Steffenfield]

Oh wow!

It's a Spirobranchus giganteus Blue christmas tree worm from Fiji!

I was just there last week and bought one!

 

[Redneck Crow]

They're quite beautiful, but they aren't corals.

You've got it--Christmas tree worms for 5,000,000!

 

[Steffenfield]

Thank you Redneck!

As always, you're still my favorite football trooper!

 

[Redneck Crow]

Here's my last "what is it" of the night.

This material is a personal favorite. I make jewelry out of it.

5,000,000 blessings to the first one to identify this:

 

[Steffenfield]

Ew...

That wouldn't happen to be Fossil Dinosaur Coprolite, would it?

You know, that's real dung there. *lol*

 

[Redneck Crow]

It's coprolite, alright. 5,000,000 blessings going your way.

The dung has been replaced with agate, though. Doesn't stink.

I wear this pair of earrings quite often. Can't smell anything coming from them.

 

[Steffenfield]

Wow!

Those earrings looks awesome Redneck!

It's still pooh though.

 

[Redneck Crow]

Yup, but poo that I turned into a great pair of earrings.

I make some nice stuff out of dinosaur bone too.

 

[Steffenfield]

Yeah, wow!

That's just fantastic!

Do you have an online store or Ebay thingy to sell these?

And yeah, I'm still digging on those earrings.

 

[Redneck Crow]

Yeah, wow!

That's just fantastic!

Do you have an online store or Ebay thingy to sell these?

And yeah, I'm still digging on those earrings.

A friend of mine used to sell some of my stuff on her online store, but it didn't sell all that well. Fossil material is very high for me to buy, especially because I get the good stuff, like fossil bone that preserves the grain of the original or coprolite that is highly agatized. Then on top of it I don't use plated junk for the findings or chain. So it's not cheap to make or to buy.

I do sell some locally strictly on word of mouth advertising. The last set I sold was when someone who recognized some dinosaur bone jewelry I was wearing and tried to buy the jewelry off my neck while I was eating at a Chinese restaurant. I made her up a new set instead.

I use ammonites, fossil crinoid, turritella, fossil bone, fossil stromatolite, orthoceras, fossil coral, coprolite, and petrified wood a lot. It isn't cheap to get the materials I work with and I don't have the patience to waste a great deal of time explaining to someone why a pair of sterling, crystal and coprolite earrings does cost twenty five bucks and why I'm not going to come down on it.

I run into the same thing with turquoise. I figure that if you want to pay plastic junk prices by all means go out and buy all of the plastic junk you want--I only work with real materials.

The set below is fossil dinosaur bone. I didn't take a great pic, but it has decent grain.

 

[Steffenfield]

Yeah, that's just amazing what you do.

It's funny though, I wouldn't picture someone with a Redneck name and into fossils, and all that other stuff, living in Columbus, Ohio of all places.

 

[Redneck Crow]

Columbus is where I ended up. I've lived everywhere from New York to California to Taiwan and some several stops inbetween.

The "Redneck" nickname came from my being into guns and hunting. Some people put that one on me as an insult but I liked it so I kept it.

 

[Redneck Crow]

Here's another what is it. Hint--this one is my own pet.

 

[Steffenfield]

Hi Bart! *lol*

 

[GigageiTsula]

Is it a gerbil?

 

[blessedmomof5]

Rat?

 

[Girlee]

Looks like a brown mouse

 

[Steffenfield]

I'll go with a Cotton Mouse named Bart.

He's cute by the way.

 

[Steffenfield]

I'll change my answer to a Wood Mouse, why not?

 

[Steffenfield]

Sorry, it's definitely a Golden Spiny Mouse. *lol*