That is beautiful material, Magnus.
Are you a chef?
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That is beautiful material, Magnus.
Are you a chef?
No but i i love cooking with quality :P
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Like Pixel said. its important to get it stabilized by a pro place like K&G.
Mammoth Molar.
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The cost on the ivory I was quoted was $150usd for a 6x2"x3/8 blank.
I'd love to try my hand at it but have never tried bone, or many other less expensive materials still. I'd hate to botch a fossil..
:-)
If you're in NY it ain't an issue :boohoo:
New NY law bans most ivory sales | syracuse.com
Note the law that includes mammoth in the ban ....... poaching woolly mammoths ?
There are litreally thousands of people looking for them, that, along with the collapse of the soviet way of life and global warming has helped, the latter by freeing indidual mammoths and sometimes whole herds from the permafrost of the siberian tundra that became their grave during the last ice age.
They do of course come from other ice bound regions, too. I remember seeing a baby mammoth, complete with hair and looking more asleep than dead on a tv show once, and reading about people who had thawed the flesh and ate it.
Still, at least they had a couple of horns, unlike the dear old walrus who has only one oosik which is also held in esteem for much the same reason as mammoth ivory.
If a bygone walrus could see what folk do with its oosik then, unlike the capenter in Lewis Carrol's The Walrus & The Carpenter, it would be the walrus who shed a bitter tear!
At the risk of mixing metaphors, slabbing-up an oosik for scales must rank as the unkindest cut of all...
Regards,
Neil
Actually, most mammoth that comes to market (the drab brown colors) is dreged out of the sea around greenland.
Neil. 3 animals have an oosik,do you know which ones?, the smallest one, they make toothpicks out of them:)
Some of the old timers around here have those little bone toothpicks.