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Raw unfinished Jeep Chevy GMCFordite Pieces for Cabbing, Ring blanks Inlay, Pendants, Wire Wrapping Jewelry, Resin Art, Mosaics, Nail Art & other Arts and Crafts.
Specimens ready to cut and polish!
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: Jeep, Chevrolet, GMC plants in the USA.
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.
Measurements are at the widest point.
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 anarticle from Fordite.com
Fordite, also known as MotorAgate, is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. Theoriginal layered automotive paint slag ?rough? was made incidentally, yearsago, by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of productioncars in big automotive factories.
The oversprayed paint in thepainting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frameswere painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layerswere hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure thepaint. Some of these deeper layers were even baked 100 times.
Eventually, the paint build-upwould become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to beremoved.As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beautyrealized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured,patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relativeease!
Wow! \"RECYCLE IT!\" seemed to bethe resounding sentiment. And so, it was...
As word got around about thisremarkable material, it\'s been said that rock hounds started showing up at autofactories, offering to help remove that problematic paint!
Sadly, the techniques thatproduced this great rough years ago are no longer in practice. Cars are nowpainted by way of an electrostatic process that essentially magnetizes theenamels to the car bodies. This leaves little, or no overspray.The old factory methods that created thisincredible material are long gone.
The Fordite \"mines\" are dry, soget some while you still can!
