Thread: What are you working on?

Whoa! Very cool, Mike! Who woulda thunk it?
Phosphoric acid and an elephant tusk!

Fresh out!

Good job on the research there B52!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Whoa! Very cool, Mike! Who woulda thunk it?
Phosphoric acid and an elephant tusk!

Fresh out!

I can hook u up! With the acid at least.

Good to know, Bro!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

I can hook u up! With the acid at least.

Hey - I've got some time on my hands...can you hook me up with some acid as well....

I am happy to say I no longer have any sources for acid.
I also have to say woot woot on the research Mike.
I am most impressed.
I happen to know where you can get bone slabs for experimentation.
;-)

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Found this cool old read regarding some ivory manipulating techniques.
Love that they actually recorded the s.g. of the acid. You could actually replicate their ratio..and I may try on some bone now..
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That is indeed one of the sources I was thinking of. I also remember Neil mentioning it.

As it turns out, I have some sufficiently broken ivory scales and phosphoric acid.

The other option, I suppose, is custom jigs and files... Because I've seen enough extremely fine detail which is identical across decades of manufacturing that I doubt it was work done by hand.

Also, as a result of this conversation I just discovered that you can buy dental epoxies through ebay (of course). And the comments are full people doing dentistry on themselves.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Hey - I've got some time on my hands...can you hook me up with some acid as well....

If it was 1985 again phrank, yup, sure could hehe.
Laser floyd at the planetarium!

Here is what I'm working on this weekend. We will see how far I get before I run out of time. User grade razors. Some in great shape but nothing really special.



Got to make scales for the one on the bottom (Simmons/421/Barber's Pet).
And the third from the left has a few cracks in the tank cover. I got some horn I can cut to put on it. Hoping I can handle the pinning of this and shaping of such small stuff.
Second from the left has some rust on the edge so I havent tried anything with it yet. Might not be worth the time.

So I'm down to little blades now but they are still razors so I'm going to go thru them and get them shaving. Won a group of 5 razors on eBay. All 5/8 but they looked good so I'll have a few more in a week or two. My collection of used scales is dwindling down to next to nothing now so I might just have to start all over again. Thats the fun part. Sure like this hobby but the razors are starting to stack up. Ha.