The Shell Nuts - Episode12 - Shell Cleaning, Restoration, and Protection

Hi everyone! In this long overdue video we attempt to add to the great content already available on the internet for cleaning, restoring, and protecting your seashells. We also take 2 of our most beautiful shells we found in our previous episode #11 and put some of the these techniques to good use. We are certainly not the authority on this matter and we urge all of you to check other internet resources as well before you work on your shells, but hopefully there are some bits and pieces of information in this video that will help you. This is an extremely long reference video(I definitely blabbed too much and this could've been shorter...sorry!) so if there is a certain segment you want to jump to, here's the starting point of each:

General Rules of Thumb - 01:40
Cleaning Technique #1: Bleaching - 08:33
Cleaning Technique #2: Acid Dipping (and proper chemical disposal) - 22:19
Cleaning Technique #3: Physical Cleaning - 37:09
Restorating Technique #1: Mineral Oil - 42:22
Restorating Technique #2: Clear Coat - 47:38
Restorating Technique #3: Sanding / Filing - 1:06:26
Restoration Project: Horse and Milk! - 1:09:31

Thanks for watching!