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Well, it didn't turn out quite the way I hoped for as the Joseph Elliot's blade is shorter in terms of distance from the nose to the pivot hole and fitting it to this scales would look...

I haven't decided upon the blade. I made the scales out of boredom (two week-ends with miserable weather) and not really prepared for the blade. The size of scales fit well a 5/8 and the cigar box I...

I decided to finish them quickly and to not spend too much time - for me the scales are good enough

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Some better pictures, using natural light. Defects can be seen due to the nature of camel bone that tends to chip away. No surprise ivory was preferred over anything else for carved scales, as it is...

Thank you but, the truth being told, it's not a big deal, only a fairly long trial and error path to follow. I thought about the same admiring various collection (I'm getting the inspiration from)...

Thank you gents.

Work in progress - camel bone I bleached previously. I'll do a second round of bleaching after carving's finished

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This one turn out the best so far. the only problem was the MOP that turn out to be of rather poor quality - it kept chipping and flaking - but I managed to get something out of it
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appearance after polishing; several technical errors (bl xxx dy difficult to think of everything down to the last detail and integrate as a whole - those guys / carvers were really good)
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Thank you, glad you like the idea.
Some backing is essential as the panels are to be pinned onto, I prefer silver-nickel metal backing as this is similar in appearance with silver. I believe others...

much easier work now, practically finished one side and started the work on the other

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After trying all these...

I corrected as much as I could/knew, polished and buffed. Not too bad in the end

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nearly there, some finishing touches to try correcting further , a polish and the scale will be ready to "dress" the blade

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A good idea, it didn't cross my mind.

Painfully slow progression. because the surface is iridescent, it is very hard to see what I'm doing, the mistakes are mounting and so does the additional work trying to correct these. I gave up the...

I found some black MOP I thought it lost during house move, so I left the other project pending and got started for the set I dreamed to have, a pair in black and white MOP with silver bits. To carve...

Thank you. These projects are not very much time consuming.
The first carved bone project took me 2 weeks with a dremel

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it turn out absolutely...

Project finalized, a trained eye can catch on many errors easily: from measurement, to design and finishing but I learnt many things and the most important of all, due to the nature of MOP's surface,...

mop is like glass, and a small piece has no real flexibility,hence the metal backing. is the metal sheet that flexes at the places were the panels join. practically you have to imagine the scale made...

I pretty much finished, I tried to correct the errors as much as I could. I have only left to secure the panels for the second scale and insert the inlays. To avoid confusions with the other types of...

In the end, is something like this

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I was talking/writing the other day about two ways to secure the inlay using a pin. I am not sure if these are the correct terms, tinkering of this sort is not my field of expertise. There might be...

Some further progression today, just enough to start using the scale as template for the other. Filing the contour turn out to be a bit challenging but the shape has started to take off. From now on,...

@ovidiucotiga - I have the certitude, a small world. I decided to stick to the neighborhood that expressed interest. Maggard simply showed the way (and I'm grateful) and I want to see how far the...

I have pretty much finished to outline one side and started to give it a little bit of 3D perspective. I'll have to simplify the original design a little, simply because there is no room (I...