Thread: What are you working on?

If you have a small swivel vice, it will be very helpful. Take a block of wood and paper and glue or double sided tape a piece of bone to it. Your practise piece. Put it in the vice, you can them get some turn with the vice so you can move the piece and hold you tool somewhat steady. Wax the bone, scratch your design and letters, ink, sand off the excess, wax and repeat. The wax part is important to do first. It will keep the ink from staining the bone. People who do it well can whip out amazing designs in no time, and like everything else it is all about practice. I think you will be able to do this without too many hiccups. If you have a magnifying visor, they are priceless.

I still have some small pieces ton play with so I'm gonna give it a go anyway. Thanks Rez, I watched a couple videos doesn't seem to hard. My design is pretty basic so should be doable.

Slathering some antique slabs to clothe Razorfeld's W&B rattler.

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Has anyone messed with scrimshaw? Thanks gents

While Mark posted a thread about carving Ivory and how he does it, at Post #7 you'll see some of his scrimshaw work.

Please keep in mind that Mark is a Master Carver, he makes his living carving and he does some magnificent work! :

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ry-scales.html

Wow thanks Roy that fantastic work. That man is an amazing craftsman. I'm gonna read everything in those posts several times.

Well its obvious I'm a natural, this is after about 15 minutes of playing.
Lord even with my mag visor I still can't hardly see what I'm doing. Definitely gonna practice. Its way harder than carving wood. This might have to wait for another set of scales for sure. [emoji12]

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Well its obvious I'm a natural, this is after about 15 minutes of playing.
Lord even with my mag visor I still can't hardly see what I'm doing. Definitely gonna practice. Its way harder than carving wood. This might have to wait for another set of scales for sure. [emoji12]

Everyone has to start somewhere. Remember how Mark talked about how even the pressure of the scratch would affect how the finished product would look.

From my rudimentary experiments I found it worked best wet sanded to 600 or 1000 grit.
To high and the pencil skates around too much, and too low and the pencil Hangs in the grit scratches and makes layout a challenge. I should look for some of my practice pieces. They are always good for a laugh.
Eric, every journey begins with but a single step.

Oh thanks gents, I was just fooling a bit. What kind of life if we can't poke fun at ourselves I'm gonna play with it more. I need my Dremel back from my dad.

I have a few old ones. Looks crude under magnification.
Doubtful any old ones were done with anything but the naked eye and a steady hand.
Like a good singing voice. Not just anyone could/can do it, I think? Scratched-in.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...can-razor.html

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...w-terrier.html