Started making ivory scales. Does anyone sand with anything over 600 grit before hand-polishing?
I've had good luck with using mineral oil with my 600 git. They are alot of fun to make. Lucky to have a 20 pounds
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Started making ivory scales. Does anyone sand with anything over 600 grit before hand-polishing?
I've had good luck with using mineral oil with my 600 git. They are alot of fun to make. Lucky to have a 20 pounds
Looking for feedback
I haven't built a set out of ivory but on the dozen sets of horn bone and acrylics I have done I have sanded to 12000 grit using micromesh pads.
When I first started out I found that 600 grit and buffing with rouge buff was good enough, I'm in the process of swapping all those scales out now, they have nowhere near finish micromesh + buffing leaves.
Eric
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All horn and bone seem to love micro-mesh!
You need to contact member "pixelfixed". He's our resident ivory guru...
You'd best inform yourself about ivory or you're going to find the feds pounding your door down. If I had 20 pounds, I wouldn't be talking about it. Even the repurposing of it is illegal (i.e., even using old piano keys as replacements in a different piano.) Read this: CITES Lacey Act Contents
I sanded Ivory scales to 2k wet/dry sandpapre the hand polished with Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish, turned out great......
Really? That just sounds out of hand. I could understand if its more for difficulty to prove it was re purposed and not raw.Quote:
Originally Posted by mdarnton