Well I was thinking more along the lines of pool boy at the Playboy Mansion but it's your call.
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Beautiful work, sir. Love the gloss finish on the scales.
I don't care how it came out. That can easily be solved . It's how you went about it that stokes my fire.
Excellent. You can think on your feet.
A bench plane. Who'd have thunk it?
Aha, The Mother of Invention can be your significant other screaming down the stairs to "STOP WHATEVER THE #%&* YOU ARE DOING DOWN THERE"!
HaHaHa!
Been there done that. I started my carving career building decoys. Back then I too was in the basement.
3 AM my wife comes down as I'm hacking out a blank and asked me the same thing. "what the h*ll are you doing"? She's a couple floors up. Kids too.
" Ahhh , making a Sharp shinned Hawk"
" Did you forget you have to be at work at 7:00,,,,idiot ?"
The Hawk came out pretty nice regardless.
hahaha
i love the job choice..
hooters...
Beautiful job. I just got some horn to try out as well
Very nice restore, being a Carpenter by trade myself I have a small Stanley block plane that I use for lots of tasks and having worked and made horn scales by hand many times after seeing this I'm going to try my block plane out on a piece of horn in the future. http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ales-hand.html
I am not advocating the use of a hand plane for thinning your horn. It is a lot of work,the plane should be heavy,tuned and the plane iron very sharp, if not you can experience tear out. It appears that horn has some grain to it somewhat like wood ,and horn does not grow flat it is pressed flat and that grain can dive away from the plane iron , the result being that the plane iron can rip material rather than slice it. I will take my belt sander outside next time, or make sure SWMBO is away.