Super Duty Fordite
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Super Duty Fordite
Yea, maybe a little off-topic so Mods if want to move, do so, by please don't bury it someplace where it never see the light of day.
Worth: About $5 bucks a gram (Silver sells for $1 buck a gram)
Origin: Ford Motor Company Truck Paint booth
Other names it goes by: Detroit agate or Motor City agate
What and How: "Workers once painted automobile bodies on train cars, which are commonly used on large assembly lines. As the paint was sprayed onto the target, the overspray collected on the train cars, and the accumulated layers of excess paint went together with the painted car body to the oven. The factory removed the accumulation periodically to clean the working platform and possibly recycle the paint. Mr. Baskin was informed by his contact in the factory that it takes about 997 layers of paint to build a one-inch-thick fordite slag specimen (figure 1). Since hand spraying has been replaced by powder painting, fordite is no longer produced, and the material on the market is all that exists. Fordite was first collected at Ford Motor Company in Michigan in the 1940s. The material saved from the 1960s and 1970s has the boldest colors, since cars were painted in very bright colors during that period."
https://www.jewelrysetinstone.com/colors-of-fordite
There is also Corvette, Kenworth and Pierce Firetruck and possibly other Fordite's
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/sp...assembly-plant
Worth: About $5 bucks a gram (Silver sells for $1 buck a gram)
Origin: Ford Motor Company Truck Paint booth
Other names it goes by: Detroit agate or Motor City agate
What and How: "Workers once painted automobile bodies on train cars, which are commonly used on large assembly lines. As the paint was sprayed onto the target, the overspray collected on the train cars, and the accumulated layers of excess paint went together with the painted car body to the oven. The factory removed the accumulation periodically to clean the working platform and possibly recycle the paint. Mr. Baskin was informed by his contact in the factory that it takes about 997 layers of paint to build a one-inch-thick fordite slag specimen (figure 1). Since hand spraying has been replaced by powder painting, fordite is no longer produced, and the material on the market is all that exists. Fordite was first collected at Ford Motor Company in Michigan in the 1940s. The material saved from the 1960s and 1970s has the boldest colors, since cars were painted in very bright colors during that period."
https://www.jewelrysetinstone.com/colors-of-fordite
There is also Corvette, Kenworth and Pierce Firetruck and possibly other Fordite's
https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/sp...assembly-plant
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