Thread: Peach pits :)

Interesting John!!

Would look good with some colour.

Originally Posted by artme

Interesting John!! Would look good with some colour.

I agree Artme, these were cast in clear epoxy by someone else , but anyone with a few well chewed peaches (or even nectarines ) i think would work , is welcome to cast a few in color, I might add these are very hard seed pods to turn cheers ~ John

Any hollow bits found, inside the pips?

Were your tubes painted? To add colour, you could paint the hole drilled for the tube.

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Any hollow bits found, inside the pips? Were your tubes painted? To add colour, you could paint the hole drilled for the tube.

Neil, I painted the tubes black just in case ,because the hollows in the seeds were black ,maybe from the epoxy not sure, they were pretty close fitted together for casting so very little showing between them, this one was 4 and a half seeds and I didn't find any hollows,but poured thin CA inside just in case then redrilled and used epoxy to glue up ,turned on my metal lathe as was very hard material and unknown stability factors cheers ~ John

Peach pits, nectarine pits, apricot pits are all very hard.

In Leeton ( when they had a cannery ) peach pits were free for driveway filling. Apricot pits were also used.

Some apricot pit were bought by a company that ground them to a powder used in jewellery polishing.