01-30-2007, 08:57 PM
As a jeweler, I'm sure you'll appreciate this. It's so hard to find good images of Fordite (and these guys even sell cabs!).
http://fordite.com/index.htm
Sidenote for other folks: Fordite, also called Detroitite, was a clever idea that popped up in the 70's. In the car paint booths at the major car production factories, layers of hardened, colorful car enamel would get scraped off from time to time. The resulting chunks were multi-layered and beautiful. Some clever dude got the idea to "cab" them (turn them into jewelry cabs), and there's nothing quite like them anywhere (although Rainbow Calsilica resembles them).
From what I understand, the type of paint and the modern painting process doesn't produce the same type of chunks, so Fordite is long gone.
http://fordite.com/index.htm
Sidenote for other folks: Fordite, also called Detroitite, was a clever idea that popped up in the 70's. In the car paint booths at the major car production factories, layers of hardened, colorful car enamel would get scraped off from time to time. The resulting chunks were multi-layered and beautiful. Some clever dude got the idea to "cab" them (turn them into jewelry cabs), and there's nothing quite like them anywhere (although Rainbow Calsilica resembles them).
From what I understand, the type of paint and the modern painting process doesn't produce the same type of chunks, so Fordite is long gone.
