Thread: A primer on genuine tortoiseshell

Ok here's some more tortoise.

A good early example with a lot of blonde parts. This type is my favorite:



Next up, I picked this up from razor emporium for super cheap. (It was listed as celluloid... heh...). You can even see the bug bites in the original photo from the listing.



These scales were too far structurally damaged to be used whole, so I put them to use in another project. Anyway, here's a bunch of pictures for reference of what the material looks like in various lighting conditions. These were also very matte from years of neglect.