Mammoth tooth as scaling material?
I'm a big fan if exotic scale material and have come across alot if knives using fossilized mammoth tooth as handle material. Of course on the knives the material in pinned flat against a metal backing and is not freestanding like razor scales. My question is is the stuff, stable/strong/flexible enough for straights? Oils it be used with a backing and work? Or I this just a no go?
Anybody have experience working with the stuff? I have search around and haven't found much on the material relating to razors...
I assume it could be used like MOP, in ridged pieces pinned to a backing- but can it be used as a single souls piece?
Mammoth tooth as scaling material?
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Voidmonster
Aha! It was you who got that one. :)
(Not that I even bid on it, but I had been thinking about it)
IMO, it's already been rescaled so one more isn't going to hurt anything. But those scales are restorable. I fix up old Sheffield scales like that all the time (and yes, I saw the other picture with the bug bites).
I wish I could tell you anything about the razor other than 'it's really weird'. I've seen one or two others with the strange tail and I just have no idea what's going on there. Maybe they were made for surgical prep?
Be that as it may, it's a fine, fine looking razor!
Thanks Zak- yea I told my wife 'don't lose' I agree that the bug bites can be filled, I could have also thought about the replica route but idk I felt like either mammoth tooth or musk I horn would be a suitable match. I have a couple other tillotsons and the came with honey horn.
As for the blade, if its got you stumped, i doubt we'll ever know any more about it... yea the weird tail thing... Idk or where to even start with that one. The blade to me really resembled a W&B ottoman Egyptian & royal Windsor, which I have been after for a long time... I have a thing for tillotsons too so I was kinda a best of both work thins I guess. It's got a super hump tang and swayback looking spine. Ill post more pics 12-25.