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dom1971

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My name is Dominic. I have a hobby of restoring old straight razors and I make scales. I have worked once with mammoth ivory and found it to be a challenge but enjoy the work. The pieces I need can be 1/8 or less in thickness, an inch wide but 1.5 to 2 is better and 5.5 to 6 inches in length. I can make scales with broken pieces that some may not consider to have much value

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Dominic

I have attached an example of one of my works. Gabon ebony with mammoth ivory spacer

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donnyjoe Regular Member

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Welcome to the Forum, nice work there. And cool hobby, I'd never heard of it.

Cogito ergo cephalalgia.

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abyssunder Regular Member

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Welcome to the Forum,Dominic! :)

" We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. "

Thomas Mann

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Harry Pristis Regular Member

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Fossil ivory from Florida rivers and from the phosphate mines tends to be very brittle . . . frangible . . . Have you worked with that material in the past, or is this an experiment you're proposing?

http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page

 

What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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