Thread: Doin the turtle dance !! (no I don't have to poop)

Originally Posted by 0livia

Too bad you guys cannot read german. I'd have a pretty long .pdf about tortoise working in the past with all the tricks like cooking it to shape it, pressing it, overlay technique, putting thin gold leaf behind to make it glow and shine (like the chest above probably has), which parts to use, where they came from, how they were traded, and, and, and...

All of the Germans and Austrians, most Belgians, Dutch, Swiss, Swedes, Danes, even some of the US-Americans on SRP read German, and together they number quite a few I think. Copyright allowing, wouldn't it be nice to have it in the wiki bibliography section (that already has some works in French) or eg. at the restauration section? I for one would love to read it.

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

it's dyed with chromium trioxide

Now THAT'S something I would NOT want to mess with even if you could get a hold of some. I wouldn't even want it in my house. A main component of hexavalent chromium. Highly carcinogenic and highly toxic stuff.

Chris L

Chris the poisonous one is chromVIoxide.
Was curious as well and looked it up in wikipedia.

The essay of the german turtle expert is here: http://www.moebel-holzobjekte.de/doc...patt.pdf?KID=2