
or the stuff that gets washed up on the beach
i'll go for the latter, it's easier to carve.
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 19:51,
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i'll go for the latter, it's easier to carve.

do they cook the beach crumbly things to make them hard?
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 19:55,
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they're both cuttlefish though, maybe it's just that the ones that watch up and been foating about in the sea for ages.
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 19:58,
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It's a sort of gypsum, which is very low on the Mohs scale (ie soft).
Looks like iridescent soap.
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 19:57,
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Looks like iridescent soap.

ta very much.
(wow, googing for a crystal brings up a hell of a lot of utter balls)
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 20:01,
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(wow, googing for a crystal brings up a hell of a lot of utter balls)

god bless art foundation courses, nothing is useless!
except thoughs 50 bogroll tubes i still havn't found a use for...
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 20:24,
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except thoughs 50 bogroll tubes i still havn't found a use for...

You can't grow crystals! They have to form in the furnaces of
volcanic rock over thousands of years. You have to buy them
from ropey hippy shops.
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Tue 13 Apr 2010, 20:27,
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volcanic rock over thousands of years. You have to buy them
from ropey hippy shops.