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My pleasure and thank you for the kind words.

Thanks man!
I've been doing fine picking up more stock. Just today I built a razor using Mammoth Ivory. Just thinking about it staggers me. Touching ancient history. Too cool

Geezer, thank you. You have always been so kind and thoughtful with your posts. Will razors ever reach the level of knives? Who knows. Did anyone ever imagine knives to get where they are?
Will...

That's cool , I get it. Always have. And like I basically said here " try it, you may like it". Plenty of talent on the site that's for sure!
Now to just find the time to surf it as my "leisure...

You're welcome!
But it's not like this is anything new. These scales have been done for how long?
I'm certainly not the first.
And this info has been around for decades ?

As Martha Stewart says,,, " that's a good thing". Gotta start somewhere. Some guys a few hundred years ago started scratching designs on stuff along with digging , poking and carving Ivory with...

Oh I'm not sure of the number of magnification. Use whatever you need to see the detail you want to achieve. How small do you want to go ? Along with magnifiers I also wear bifocals so a true number...

Ouch!
Hey, it's a great shaver. And besides it tells a complete story. Monmartre , Sacre Coeure , Paris etc. it's complete.
Besides. If I did it once I can do it again . Probably better. I'll...

Yeah, Ivory is getting tricky. And it'll only get worse. Everything I have is pre ban. But if you can scratch the surface you can scrimshaw it. Bone works but can tend to get a bit fuzzy and if not...

The remainder of the designs on the scales, the Cathedral Sacre Coure and the Eiffel Tower were done in the same fashion. A few lines to establish the outlines. Wax. Add some more details, paint,...

Once the carving is done , polish it up. Use pretty much whatever polishes you like for doing any plastic, horn, bone scale and make it shine. It has to be essentially finished before you start the...

To refine the shapes I used, as I said a cut up eraser. See, big bucks here and very high tech! With it I could reach into some pretty fine areas to clean up the surface. Also I resharpened an Xacto...

Since these slabs were a shy 1/8 , which I needed for parts of the design I wanted above the surface of the main scale, the rest of the scale had to be taken down to a more reasonable thickness (...

Same thing applied to the hinge end of the scale. Pick the cutter that matches the shape you want to reproduce in the scale.

Once the outline is completed and relatively uniform I laid out the design on the face of the scale. I used a .3mm pencil but if you can sharpen any pencil reasonably well it will workl. Just keep it...

There was some interest in the scales I just did for a French razor.
Now this isn't , and can't be a be all end all how to post. Each carving is different but I'll show the tools I used to create...