Thread: Elliot in Ivory

This was partially inspired by the Electric Razor I restored recently as well as the Japanese frameback I just restored and posted. Here is the Elliot I spoke of in reference where I just cleaned up the blade and then made up the scales for it in Ivory. I happened to have some extra stock after duplicating scales for my Drew 7 day boxed set.
The wedge is black horn with brass liners.
Hope you enjoy.

Mycarver,,,,I've been wondering when you would post more of your work,,,,I have been missing these beautiful restorations,,,,keep up the great work,,,,

Oh I've still been building razors . About 50 over the past few months but I've been crazy busy with work. The job I'm currently doing is just insane!
So I had to take a bit of time and do something for myself.
And just tonight I picked up another 60 razors for my collection. Meaning,,,, more work to do.

This is the Electric razor that I had to repair cracks and replace missing pieces that inspired this ivory piece.

That is amazing workmanship, must have been a lot of hours involved. Very nice.

Thanks and yes it did eat up some time as it was my first attempt at carving Ivory. Now that I have this under my belt I'll get faster knowing how it responds and it opens up so many other avenues. I've also been working on some Skrimshaw, and I think other versions of carved scales as well as carved inserts for other scales might prove interesting. Then I won't have to depend on plastic which doesn't respond well in scales such as these that I built.

Those scales are something else, wow.

Bob

Originally Posted by mycarver

This was partially inspired by the Electric Razor I restored recently as well as the Japanese frameback I just restored and posted. Here is the Elliot I spoke of in reference where I just cleaned up the blade and then made up the scales for it in Ivory. I happened to have some extra stock after duplicating scales for my Drew 7 day boxed set.
The wedge is black horn with brass liners.
Hope you enjoy.

Mycarver,

You are SO talented. Each of us is blessed with talents but some are unfortunate not to discover them. Work and return to your work again and again. It's a gift. Never let it go to waste. Extraordinary.

They are very pretty scales fantastic job.

Not usually what would strike my fancy, but I gotta say those ivory scales are just beautiful. You can see the hours of work that went into those and it was definitely worth it! Well done sir