Quote Originally Posted by knott00 View Post
Just to clear things up a bit. It is completely possible to petrify wood in a few days with modern techniques!

The process involves soaking the wood in an acid bath for 2 days, then in a silica bath for another 2 days and letting them air dry. Then you pop them into a furnace filled with argon and pumped up to 1,400C for a few hours and BOOM!(hopefully not literally) You have yourself some petrified wood!
I looked this up and the experiments used a 1 cm cube. Hardly enough for a hone.....

Probably easier for me to drive to SD.