Jewelry Grade Fordite. Cured Car Paint. Detroit Agate for Blanks & Cabbing F79

Description: Raw unfinished Jeep Fordite Pieces for Cabbing, Ring blanks Inlay, Pen Turning, Pendants, Wire Wrapping Jewelry, Resin Art, Mosaics, Nail Art & Arts and Crafts.Specimens ready to cut and polish! Has many uses, let your imagination run free Make your own custom jewelry with these slabs, cut into sections for multiple pieces or sand in spots to change color and patterns. Let your creativity take over.For use in jewelry, ring making, handles, beads, ring blanks, cabbing, pendants, silver/gold plating, wire wrapping, resin, pen making, tumbler crafts, mosaics, nail art, arts & crafts, epoxy tumblers, gun scales, knife scales, DIY and other lapidary needs! Make your own custom jewelry with these slabs, cut into sections for multiple pieces or sand in spots to change color and patterns. Let your creativity take over. Material: Cured car paint.Origin: Toledo, Ohio.Fordite, also called Motor Agate or Detroit Agate, is an entirely man-made jewel created by scraping layers of the enamel paint slag that had been dripped into pools onto the metal tracks during painting process of the car bodies and baked solid. Due to modern painting methods, paint is applied electrostatically, via robots, so Motor Agate is no longer being formed at the factories. These items are becoming rare as supplies run out.Pieces are not polished to finish, but lightly sanded and cleaned to show details. You will cut, sand and polish to your final requirements. Finished product is not guaranteed. (Out of our control)Due to the nature of the item, we cannot take returns. Please look at photos for details. and read descriptions fully. Message me for more info if needed.We are also craftsmen, so we also use the product in various forms, and we are happy with the quality and results. We make available the smaller quantities, so you do not have to purchase more than you need. We just like others to join us in the excitement of making awesome products from these offerings. Extract of an article from Fordite .comFROM PAINT TO PRECIOUS GEMFordite, also known as Motor Agate, is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. The original layered automotive paint slag “rough” was made incidentally, years ago, by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of production cars in big automotive factories. The oversprayed paint in the painting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frames were painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layers were hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure the paint. Some of these deeper layers were even baked 100 times. Eventually, the paint build-up would become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to be removed. As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beauty realized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured, patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relative ease! Wow! “RECYCLE IT!” seemed to be the resounding sentiment. And so, it was… As word got around about this remarkable material, it’s been said that rock hounds started showing up at auto factories, offering to help remove that problematic paint!Sadly, the techniques that produced this great rough years ago are no longer in practice. Cars are now painted by way of an electrostatic process that essentially magnetizes the enamels to the car bodies. This leaves little, or no overspray. The old factory methods that created this incredible material are long gone. The Fordite “mines” are dry, so get some while you still can!

Price: 79.99 USD

Location: Saint Charles, Missouri

End Time: 2024-12-22T15:56:45.000Z

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