Finished! South Dakota Geologic Tableau
Nov 16, 2017 19:57:44 GMT -5
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Post by dakotabirder on Nov 16, 2017 19:57:44 GMT -5
A fancy name for a display of the geologic goodies my son and I have found since starting this summer. "Tableau" just happens to be a word my wife seems to have fallen in love with, and...it fits here. Every piece here was self-collected by my son and I this year, all here in South Dakota. In fact, 95% of the pieces were found in the same 3-4 square mile area, pretty remarkable given the variety.
I spent much of the weekend cleaning up and refinishing these 2 printer's trays, and last night mounted them on the wall in my home office. 178 little nooks and crannies to fill with some of our finds! We had a lot of fun going through our pieces and picking ones to put in here. Given we're so new at this, we have a heck of a lot more unpolished pieces than polished ones, but they make for a nice mix. Some (OK...many) pics of our finished product:
1 - An oblique view of the two final trays. Note while the bigger pieces of wood are all refinished, for the original metal drawer facing, I simply sanded off the old paint and left as bare metal.
2- A straight-on view of the two trays.
3 - On each tray, I took the original hardware and drawer pull, and turned them into little title displays for the two trays. The right tray is devoted solely to South Dakota agates (Prairie, bubblegum, Fairburn, and others).
4 - The left tray and label, primarily devoted to petrified wood, jaspers, quartz, chalcedony, and also a few coral fossils.
5 - Our favorite of all our finds so far, a really gorgeous Fairburn agate. Not only great, fine banding, but some wonderful colors as well.
6 - Most of these are prairie agates, both polished and unpolished.
7 - Our favorite, bubblegum agates! Bit of a close up of many small, unpolished bubblegums.
8 - A wider view of a bigger partitioned area, all devoted to bubblegums (both polished and unpolished).
9 - Petrified wood in various forms, something that's scattered around practically every where on our hunting grounds on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands.
10 - Some bigger pieces of chalcedony, and a couple of oddball finds that seem to be chert embedded in limestone?
11 - Some prairie agates closer up, all polished except the top-right one.
12 - The only downside to the use of printer's trays like this? The depth of the compartments. You can't really display bigger pieces (although I guess you could mount them to the back). Still looking for a way to display some of our bigger pieces. For now, I just put a little table underneath the wall display and have started to throw on some of the bigger pieces (here, mostly bigger prairie agates, chalcedony, and petrified wood).
I spent much of the weekend cleaning up and refinishing these 2 printer's trays, and last night mounted them on the wall in my home office. 178 little nooks and crannies to fill with some of our finds! We had a lot of fun going through our pieces and picking ones to put in here. Given we're so new at this, we have a heck of a lot more unpolished pieces than polished ones, but they make for a nice mix. Some (OK...many) pics of our finished product:
1 - An oblique view of the two final trays. Note while the bigger pieces of wood are all refinished, for the original metal drawer facing, I simply sanded off the old paint and left as bare metal.
2- A straight-on view of the two trays.
3 - On each tray, I took the original hardware and drawer pull, and turned them into little title displays for the two trays. The right tray is devoted solely to South Dakota agates (Prairie, bubblegum, Fairburn, and others).
4 - The left tray and label, primarily devoted to petrified wood, jaspers, quartz, chalcedony, and also a few coral fossils.
5 - Our favorite of all our finds so far, a really gorgeous Fairburn agate. Not only great, fine banding, but some wonderful colors as well.
6 - Most of these are prairie agates, both polished and unpolished.
7 - Our favorite, bubblegum agates! Bit of a close up of many small, unpolished bubblegums.
8 - A wider view of a bigger partitioned area, all devoted to bubblegums (both polished and unpolished).
9 - Petrified wood in various forms, something that's scattered around practically every where on our hunting grounds on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands.
10 - Some bigger pieces of chalcedony, and a couple of oddball finds that seem to be chert embedded in limestone?
11 - Some prairie agates closer up, all polished except the top-right one.
12 - The only downside to the use of printer's trays like this? The depth of the compartments. You can't really display bigger pieces (although I guess you could mount them to the back). Still looking for a way to display some of our bigger pieces. For now, I just put a little table underneath the wall display and have started to throw on some of the bigger pieces (here, mostly bigger prairie agates, chalcedony, and petrified wood).
