Thread: Ivory scales

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

Edit......

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

The facts
http://www.fws.gov/international/DMA...nstruments.pdf

Originally Posted by mdarnton

Even the repurposing of it is illegal (i.e., even using old piano keys as replacements in a different piano.)

Really? That just sounds out of hand. I could understand if its more for difficulty to prove it was re purposed and not raw.

Which makes mammoth or mastodon ivory ideal. Dug up from the ground, no fresh killing of an endangered species.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

Which makes mammoth or mastodon ivory ideal. Dug up from the ground, no fresh killing of an endangered species.

Conversley,what makes vintage legal african Ivory not ideal?
Mammoth is great stuff,is also 3 times the price,I in no way condone the killing of Elephants today,but what happend 100 yrs ago was sport,crazy maybe,but it was what it was.