Dubl Duck, Shumate Barber Delight - both in Hippo Ivory

Edit: just realized, it is a "Barber Deluxe" not delight. Meh. Close enough...heh


I had a customer send me a couple razors along with half of a hippo tusk, with instruction to make a couple of pre-ban ivory scales.

I was very excited to work the material - and as I had expected, it was a pleasure. If anyone have any questions I'd be happy to answer.

The wedges are vintage lead wedges that I had accumulated from broken sets of scales and re-scales. I'll let the pics do the talking.

Enjoy!

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Classy! scales are just stunning, beautiful work!

Superb! Classy.

Very nice work. The blades look like they belong in those scales for sure.

Just beautiful!

they look great !!! nice job !!!

Looks great man. What do you cut your slabs with, very smooth.

wow that tusk looks absolutely beautiful with the warm glow only a natural material can show! The lead wedge and nickel silver pins match so well...

Those look great! How did you polish the ivory? Also, I can't tell if you used washers around the pins. Did you?

Nice job, class act. Very tasteful appearance conducive to presentation. Pat yourself on the back.

Jerry
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Very nice, like warthog,is no pre-ban with hippo at this point as far as i know.

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Originally Posted by deadrift

Looks great man. What do you cut your slabs with, very smooth.

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Actually, they were sent to me already ripped. Whoever did it did a good job - I would have taken my time with it too...lol. There were a few rough spots and a couple slightly crooked areas, but, luckily I was able to flatten them out enough and still had enough material. Originally, I tried to use the thinnest, smallest piece covered in bark for one scale..and by the time I got it flattened out, to get through the bark would have just made the scale too thin for these razors, so, I couldn't use it. ;( So, the two sets came from the 2nd and 3rd slabs. The 4th slab, on the bottom of the stack, the owner allowed me to keep for a personal project! woohoo. ;) The nerve is visible in this slab, however, and I'm not sure how stable it will be. I'm definitely willing to give it a shot though.

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Originally Posted by TonyFranciozi

Those look great! How did you polish the ivory? Also, I can't tell if you used washers around the pins. Did you?

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No washers, due to wanting to keep the classic ivory scale look. As for polishing ivory, it is similar to horn / bone / etc. Belt sander 80 -> 120 ->180, wet hand sand 220 -> 400 -> 600, Buff with white rouge. It comes out beautiful.

Ivory is very wierd, when you wet sand, the material removed is insanely slippery. You have to constantly dip the scale + paper in clean water to remove it. :)

you are an artist :dropjaw:

Great looking work as always Brad. Must've been a real treat to get to work with the ivory right from scratch. Well done.

The Ivory Is Just Awesome!
Nice Work, They Look Great...

I'm from the bone work just delighted+++

Heres some hippo for you guys,is pretty affordable.
Boone Trading Company - Hippo Ivory

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Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Heres some hippo for you guys,is pretty affordable.
Boone Trading Company - Hippo Ivory

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Super!
It remains only to get rich, as long as it not available to me : Мышление:

Great pair of custom restores, and Hippo ivory, I didn't even think of Hippo how does it compare to Elephant ivory or marine ivory? not that I've had the opportunity to work with either especially with the laws we have in the UK.


Jamie