Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

digging out an ivory button to inlay into a handle base I'm doing.

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So...Andrew! Is that one of those Lignum Vitae lawn bowling balls??

Originally Posted by ejmolitor37

Currently hand sanding carefully my Greaves. Sadly will lose the etch but I can not have the grind marks left by an idgit.

Let's see how it's going!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

So...Andrew! Is that one of those Lignum Vitae lawn bowling balls??

Yup. Found 2 a while back. $15 a piece. Well worth it for the rarest wood ever, and some ivory buttons.

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Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Yup. Found 2 a while back. $15 a piece. Well worth it for the rarest wood ever, and some ivory buttons.

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Wow! I can remember old Pixelfixed cutting into them.
Rare thing to find!

So why did they have an ivory button inlaid into them?
Don't break that, now!

I might have a tinge of guilt cutting up such a cool item.
For a while, anyway!

Originally Posted by 32t

I have 2 and think they are nice enough but overpriced. I have only had them a short time but think the mechanisms will be susceptible to crud.

I got mine for $25 USD and $40 used. i would have never paid the $150 and $250 that they would have been new.

I would have and did. The mechanism is as solid as a rock. Easy one handed flick opening, and easy one handed closing with the phosphorus thrust washers. That's the key. You can hold something with one hand, easily grab the knife from your pocket with the other. Open it and close it with one hand. I've had my first one for 2 years now and if I lost it id get another in a heartbeat.

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

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So why did they have an ivory button inlaid into them?
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So you will know where the top of the ball is,, Duuuuuuhhhhhh!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Wow! I can remember old Pixelfixed cutting into them.
Rare thing to find!

So why did they have an ivory button inlaid into them?
Don't break that, now!

I might have a tinge of guilt cutting up such a cool item.
For a while, anyway!

From what I've seen, the ivory button was decoration and usually had initials carved into it. Maybe the local club initials, or maybe the owner???

Usually one around an 1 3/4 inches, and on the other side one around an inch. Most of the early lawn bowling balls were Lignum and Ivory. I've also seen Lignum and plastic, and then the more modern ones are henselite.... Whatever that is.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

So you will know where the top of the ball is,, Duuuuuuhhhhhh!

What if the ball is upside down????????????????????

Originally Posted by Hirlau

So you will know where the top of the ball is,, Duuuuuuhhhhhh!

Well, I suppose in a way you're not to far off John. The balls had a funny shape to them, not completely spherical, so they would "curl". Suppose if you couldn't see which way the oblong was you could use the buttons to make sure you held it right.

Originally Posted by 32t

What if the ball is upside down????????????????????

Then the ivory button would be on the bottom,, ,,, come on guys, this ain't Algebra.