ooooh a pretty axe woohoo nice work

Thanks. Hey I have been wondering: is Paua a kind of Abalone? What sort mollusk is it anyway?

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hey I found this link with good pics of the paua shell, it is of the abalone family ..its used heaps here for inlay work and jewlery ..and u can eat the flesh inside them .. YUM paua patties ..the only thing bout working it is the dust is really bad 4 ur lungs ,so if u eva use it wear a decent face mask [link] steeler

Hey thanks for the link. The North Pacific Abalone looks much the same, and tastey too! When I was a child my house, hhere I lived with my greatgrandmother had abalone shells cemented to the rockwork all around it, along with agats and carnelian and petrified wood. The house is still there though not all or the rockwork is. I miss eating abalone, fresh from the water, whacked hard with a big mallett, and fryed fast and hot, right on the beach. Here where I live now, in the inner sound, it's all about oysters and clams. The mascot at the local college is the Geoduck, pronounced "Gooey-Duck." It is an giant clam, with a long and very rude looking neck, They can weigh in at 10kg. and seem to mainly be used in soupes and to scare away people from outside the area.

hahahahaha scary seafood ... wicked! yea shells r so amazing ( and often tasty treats !) i was casting small ones with a copper n silver alloy 4 a while and making them into rings .. everyone seems to relate to the simple beauty of shell forms

The crows here leave shells all over the bridge railing; I like to flick them off into the water when I go to the bakery. Even the plainest of clams have great colours on the inside. Say, why do the Ausees call abalone mutton fish? I like mutton and I like fish, but neither anywhere near as good.

lol i havent heard that one b4 ...aussies can be more than a wee bit strange at times ( its us Kiwis national past time ..aussie bashing... they do the same in return ..all in good fun)

beutifal (sp) work on the head. its truly amazing especially with the inlay

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Thnks, The inlay is trickey, but a great effect when it works out right.