Thread: Turtle she'll scales

Those are all beautiful razors!

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Originally Posted by earcutter

Oh man ... that's too bad! I still have some shells from WAY back in the day when I was living in the caribbean, that I was hoping to have converted into scales. I mean after I got my heljestrand with genuine tortoiseshell, I was "sold." They are beautiful and fact is, hanging them up now gets people all into a frenzy.

It is a bit of a process to convert the shell itself to usable material, involving heat and pressure to fuse the scutes.

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

It is a bit of a process to convert the shell itself to usable material, involving heat and pressure to fuse the scutes.

I wouldn't even know who I would have sent it out to - I certainly couldn't do it. Thanks for the info.