Cleaning Phenomenal Seashells and "Pearling" Top Shells, Plus Amazing Fossil Mail Time!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- In this one, we unload and clean some amazing shells that i recently purchased, as well as pearl some top shells! On top of that, we open up some insane fossils from a viewer! There were so many fantastic specimens in this one in both regards, shell AND fossil! I hope you all enjoy this one, it was a lot of fun, and I will have another one out soon! Look forward to Florida rock hounding, fossil hunting, and shelling coming very soon!
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All the years I spent picking shells up off the beaches of Puget Sound and I had no idea you could remove the outer layer to expose the beautiful nacre. My grandmother was a collector and traded shells with other collectors around the world. I'm guessing that some of those beauties had been treated. Wow, I've learned so much from watching your videos! Thank you!
From what ive read and seen, there is some amazing shells to be found in the Puget sound area! Shells are just amazing!😄 there is just so much you can do with them! The world of shells is just as vast and varied as the world of rocks and fossils! And thank you so much! That truly means a lot!😄
Safety reminder: The dust created through the grinding and cutting of abalone shell is toxic and carvers and cutters must be careful so as to not inhale the fine dust particles. A fine particle dust mask, a ventilation system and wet grinding are required to work the shell safely. Beautiful work Theo, thank you.
All shell dust is toxic
How long do you keep sells in acid to become them pearly, not dissolve them into nothing?
That was so cool! Beautiful shells! You have nice friends 😀 Have fun in Florida and find many treasures!
The rock community is just awesome! Fantastic people everywhere😊 i definitely am so far and can not wait to share our new treasures with you all!
I love that you have such an interest and share it with us...thank you
This video was AWESOME! Thank you! I just picked up at least 50 of the "top" shells on the beach and I can't wait to drop them in the acid for the pearling effect. I'm so excited!
The geography cone has hearts! 💕
Aren't they awesome!?😄
Love the shells 🐚 unbelievable how different each are. Love
Shells are just as amazing as rocks if you ask me; there is an enormous variety of shells each with something different that's cool about them or different things you can do with them!😄
Awesome pearling! I have some giant mussel shells I would love to dip in the acid wash! I may shoot you a email about a project or two! Good stuff Mr. Kellison! Excellent!!!!😁😎
Absolutely! I may not see it immediately (been running around doing stuff pretty much every day this trip) but i will definitely see it and gwt back to you!😊
@Theokelison What kind of acid do you use. I live in Florida and I'm always looking for shells, rocks, fossils etc. And what is the process to it. And does the acid work on everything
Surprised, wow. Can't wait. Be safe!
Beautiful. Hope Florida bring you lots of goodies so you can share with us. Good luck 🎣 please share your catch. 🙂
Of course! We are still under halfway through the trip and i am already up to five videos of amazing finds to share with you all!😄 can't wait to get back and start posting videos for you!
wow! this is so great! I always wondered how they got the shells looking so good. I want to try it! thank you for the outstanding video!
Oh my....BEAUTIFUL!
WOW! They turned out beautifully! Thank you for the video,.
Thanks so much for watching!😄
thank you for the tips ! i can see all kinds of future projects with them shells !
Oh absolutely! Plus im getting into some real beauties here in Florida that im very excited to share with you all when i get back!👍 definitely have some awesome shell content coming soon! (Also rocks still; managing to get a few rock hunts in here and there😄)
@@TheoKellison thanks! real real happy to hear that! i was affraid that you guys would visit FL. and retire and stop making videos!! praying yas are have a sun filled great time!
I love that you know so much about shells! And those baculites... wow. Nice job, Theo.
Hey what can i say😄 i love shells just as much as i love rocks! I think rockhounding and shelling are not as different as many think; both entail going into nature to search for naturally occuring treasures😄 i think if you plop any rock hound on a beach long enough, they will become shellers too😂 and i know! Those baculites were just amazing!
@@TheoKellison Nope, absolutely similar. Also mudlarking. It's all about the joy of the hunt.
I love shells! I know nothing about them, other than you can "hear the ocean" in some of them, but they are all just gorgeous. I can't believe the transformation after you cleaned them. Can't wait to see what you find in Florida.
Shells are just amazing! I love them just as much as rocks and fossils! And i have been getting into some awesome stuff down here that i can not wait to start sharing with you all!😄
Awesome!! Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing your shell collection.
Loved them all
What a great friend.
Have fun in Florida!
Be safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
Way cool! And I learned a lot about cleaning shells!
Awesome! Once i get back there will be even more amazing shells to show you all!😄 plus a good amount of hounding; still managing to get after some fossils here and there while im in florida!👍
As usual another perspective on what is already really cool
Thanks so much! That truly means a lot!😄
Great video, those shells turned out beautifully. Looking forward to the Florida vid ;@)
There's gonna be a whole series!😄 we've been getting into some awesome stuff and i can not wait to start showing you all!👍
@@TheoKellison great news 😀 can't wait 👌
You inspire me so much I have a ton of abalone and turbines to polish up !
Have a fun trip!!!
That is awesome!!
I loved learning something new watching this video, thank you for doing something different, interesting, and exciting
Thank you so much! Truly means a lot!😄
I love all these examples. It's amazing what we miss just by not seeing beneath the surface. Thank you for sharing these wonderful examples. Truly labor of love. I love that before and after processes. Thanks for sharing 🏆🇺🇸👍 I grew up shelling Sanibel in the 70s and 80s. It is the best after a storm. Weeks and months after even. Please do a video on that I Can't Get enough Sanibel in my life. 💕😁
Wow! It's so amazing how you were able to bring out those iridescent rainbows from those shells! Thank you so much for sharing the process. I will 100% buy a bag of shells the next time I go to the beach so that I can apply your technique and make my own jewelry!
Thanks, Great Video!
Great video! Safe travels in Florida.
I enjoy watching you soooooooo much!!!!
Thank you so much colleen!😄that truly means so much!
What kind of acid are you using to pearl shells?
LOVE your videos!!! I just stumbled upon them recently and appreciate what you do. This may be a really dumb question but I have several fossilized shells and was wondering if this same process would work on them? Thanks again for sharing your adventures 🥰
Thanks for the great info!
Thanks so much for watching!😄
Great video!
Loved this! Yes, would like to see more 👍🏻
Thanks so much!😄 there will definitely be more to come!
Those pearl shells were just goooorgeous 😻!! I live in SoCal and have just found a bunch of really beautiful shells on the beach which is how I came across this video. Where do you buy this acid? I’d love to clean some of these up!
Those would be incredible Christmas Ornaments. So Beautiful, Elegant, Ethrial. Thanks. I know what my next mission will be. Collect shells in Oklahoma! Hobby Lobby ..
I didn’t think to use it on my small shells so thank you
I would pick a fave (the geography cone)...and then another one (the shiny big ones in the darker light)...and then oh, the polished baculite sutures! Safe travels!
They are just so cool! Those big pearl tops are outstanding! Sucks that they are so hard to get videos of because they show WAY more color in person. And that geography cone is going into my personal collection for sure; so cool! Thanks so much for watching!😄
Super cool video! Thanks! Just subscribed - love your enthusiasm and I learned a bunch.
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Just love your videos
Thanks so much!😄 that truly means a lot!😊
Awesomeness, would citrus acid work for cleaning shell's as well, I used to be an abalone diver on the Chatham island's and I've collected a few shell over the years and have only ever cleaned a couple with wet and dry sandpaper, and was looking for an alternative to that.
Very informative!
This is so neat! I got shells,I got the acid. Can you guess what I’m going to do?🤔
Thank you for sharing this 😊
Stay safe
Awesome thank you
Awesome video! What about the challenge to other shell collectors and rock hounds that post on TH-cam? Did I miss it? Have fun in Florida! I'm going next month also!
Might want to hit those shells with a black light.... some of them have patterns that only show up with the black light!
Absolutely!😄 i have been getting into some fossilizee shells down here and can't wait to get a blacklight on some of em; all of those amazing patterns stay intact in uv!
What concentration do you use for the acid?
I just subscribed brother loved this video
Thanks for the video! What concentration of acid are you using for the cleaning? I want to bring out the mother of pearl on the backside of a big abalone shell i have.
I found a wavy turban snail shell (top shell) with the mother of pearl on the inside, as well as peaking out from under the brownish stuff (some fuzzy looking, some not) on the top side (clearly not familiar with technical names lol). We were able to clean and pick off some of the stuff, but not all of it. I've never used acid before, and was wondering if there's another way to get all the brown stuff off.
Thanks!
Nice video! If i do a cup from a seashell but i use this process to clean it, is it safe to drink from it then?
I was a berring sea Alaska fisherman and those used to come up on the line allllll the time they was pink and purple and white so beautiful and I would collect them in a bucket and make a fresh ceviche for all my guys on the boat and we would feast and I would bleach the shells and bring them home I got like 8 left from 15 years ago
Idk what there called maybe you do
Looked like a cross between a rams murex and a burned rapa whelk but not the colors and maybe a black murex too but not the colors as the was purple pink and white and I mean hot bright colors too
Fun!
I would love to clean shells like that, but chemistry was never my strongest subject.. I would be scared of the acid... All the shells are Gorgeous! Thank you for showing the process!!!
I love your video 🙂
What are you dipping the shells into?
Great !! I wonder if I use the acid process on freshwater mussel shells If they will shine. Gonna try. Havgudun my friend.
Where did you go to online to buy those? I’ve looked but only find small ones.
Thanks
Beautiful results Theo! Would an Abalone shell clean off like the Top and Asteria shells?
Unfortunately no it does not work with abalone; i have tried before. The nacre layer on abalone is fairly thin and the shell layer is VERY thick so by the time you get through the outer shell the acid really starts to eat into the mother-of-pearl. I really wish it did though! Would sure save a lot of time not having to polish them manually😅
I just tried this and yeah, it ate through most of it. Lol. Wish I would have read the comme ts first. Oh well, plenty more shells out there. Glad I found confirmation I didn't mess up - it just doesn't work for them.
How do i clean my shells? I have alot of the one you have, but i feel like ill accidently break em. What liquid stuff did u use to put your shells in to clean them?
I tried this with a wavy turban shell and it did not go well. Wanted to pearalize it and it made it so fragile and pieces broke off. Glad I tried it first on a smaller one. Any idea what I did wrong? Left it in for two minutes.
If you could explain exactly how you cleaned the baculite I’d very much appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Of course! I did not in this one to keep the video length down, but i have a borderline absurd amount of baculites that need prepping so they will absolutely be getting an in depth video soon!😄 in the mean time i do have a few other videos on fossil prep if you would want to check those out!
@@TheoKellison thank you so much!!!
I wish he would list the acids used. I have a large ammonite covered in matrix. I’d like to remove the matrix. Is it possible?
Well, now I have to take a better look at the shells I dragged back from New Zealand....
Oh New Zealand had amazing shells!😄
Will you educate me?
I've seen on some of your other videos, as well, with "fresh from the water shells" that even then you only work in short time increments in the acid.
I've tried to clean fresh conch shella, and even left them over night, and they just don't get shiny. Is it just a matter of they all need to be polished mechanically afterward?
NOT geography cone. What you have is Conus pennaceus. Still poisonous but nothing like geographus. I can suggest an excellent reference for seashell identification. The Compendium of Seashell by Abbott.
I just found this and am in Florida palm beach right now. My shells are small on the beach but looking to get a mask. I found 8 of the geography cone shells. I cannot believe they are venomous luckily they were empty with only shells stuck. I’ve found a bunch of mother of pearl shells I want to polish.
Just happened upon your channel. Hooked
I have an Atrina Rigida Pen Shell about 9" long. I want to clean it but not with bleach or acid. Suggestions?
I have holes in my top shells! It ate right through it! I did the 1 part acid to 3 parts water! I’m so mad! I lost 3 beautiful shells!
How long do soak them in? I have big shells
Muriatic acid. …👍🏻
So I tried to do this with a what you call a top shell and it started to eat away the shell and made big holes in it. What did I do wrong
what kind of acid ?
Muriatic acid? I'm from France and trying to do mine but can't find what acid I need.
What was the chemical called
Which Dremel bit do I use to polish and shine up shells?
Is there a list of seashells that are the type for pearling?
What is the name of the substance that is in the dishes and you clean the shells inside them?
is there a way to do this without acid?
You ever heard of those rocks that glow in the dark
What's water is it?
Where I can buy the acid for do this ?????? In CA what's the name
What type of acid is used?
Naic.
Does it have value?
What are suchers?
I didn’t catch the name of the product you use to get the shell down to mother of pearl, can you send me the name please.
White water name is? Yellow water name is?
Hi can you help me to find the exact value of the seashell fossil i have one?
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Could you link me to the acid you use ?
Hi what is the name of the aceton
What a Shell 🐚😄 I have tons of the turbant shell and many others I collect from around the World, I will goin to sell part of them Are you Interested ?? Please let me know
What name of this acid please
Muriatic acid, HCl