Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by outback

Took a bit getting the scales on the Boker cleaned up last nite.
Flitz on a rag, usually fills the bill.

Is that horn or bakelite? 😂

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Originally Posted by TheGeek

Is that horn or bakelite? 😂

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Its Bakelite

I took the deepest cracked set of scales and pinned them up today. No bleaching ot stains, these ones are o'naturel. Thought I thought they matched nicely with this old girl that has been on the board for some time.

Absolutely stunning. Love that all natural look. Its like a partial staining.
"Me Like"..!!
I might become a damn convert, or a byvert, to scale materials.

My wife calls me some other kind of vert, but I can't seem to remember. Something to do with the beginning, or before.
Oh. Yeah...that's it.
PreVert...I think.!
Well something like that, think I'll go see what she's doing. [emoji12]

What type of bone is it .?

RezDog those scales look great. Everytime you post your carved bone I'm more convinced that I need to try my hand at making some. What kind of tools and techniques are you using? Have you posted a tutorial thread? If not you should. Great work! Keep it up.

Thanks guys. I am uncertain of what type of bone it is. I want to tell you it is camel bone, but I am not certain. This set looked pretty good as is. One of the issue with bone is it often looks very splotchy if it is not bleached.
I went all the way when I bought my tools for carving bone. I started with a 5" engravers vice and a set of engraver chisels. The chisels are most often seen advertised as gravers. There are several different types of metal that they are made from. It was a bit of a learning curve trying to figure out how to sharpen them. I have a few tutorial threads I would like to try. This is one of them. All in good time though as I am still at the early stages of learning myself. Other people can do the carving with a dremel, I tried and it makes no sense to me. I have a ton of bone blanks in transit so there will be a lot more carving going on here. I have some done for my projects but not nearly enough. I was counting razors today and I have a lot of carving to. Do here. I think I am going to try carving some horn too. It is going to be tricky though. I think if a guy want to get good at it he needs to go hang out in India for a couple of months. Slowly learning a little more every time.

Looks awesome, Shaun!
Handling and rubbing the bone in-hand will make them look nice and old in short-order, I think.
Well-done!

Originally Posted by RezDog

I took the deepest cracked set of scales and pinned them up today. No bleaching ot stains, these ones are o'naturel. Thought I thought they matched nicely with this old girl that has been on the board for some time.

I love the raw finished product! Years ago they didn't "antique" them. {At least I don't think so.}

150 years from now someone will wonder about the history of these "old" things.

Dremels are hard to carve with, too hard IMO, on horn and bone and tend to run away so easily.
Hand carving, with time, tools, patience, and the artistic abilities of someone with talent, (not me in this medium), just exudes a classiest and style that is truly an art form.
Your work with these materials is in that realm Shaun, really.
That looks damn good buddy.