While I wait for some material to arrive, I snuck in a prep of a Rust Walcott plate with six Ceraurus pleurexanthemus. Most of them are very small (a few millimetres), but the central one is also the biggest. Smaller trilobites in this material take much more care with abrasion at lower PSI and good powder control as they are very easy to blow right off. My good fossil friend who put this in my hands over a year ago cautioned me to take it slow, and possibly wait until I had much better tools. I took the risk, but certainly took it very slow. The plate in its initial state: And the final result:
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Kane Faucher
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