Thread: Camel Bone Scales? Anybody Tried Making Them?

Originally Posted by karlej

The scales are giraffe bone from Austin Kennedy. Hard, dense and very small pores. You can add a bit of age to them by dyeing in tea. My experience with cow bone is it is much more porous. During polishing the color of the polish will fill the pores. I typically use a white cake on a stitched cotton wheel for the final polish. If you use something with a dark color like an ebony base on cow bone it will leave the black in the pores and look more like very old cow bone. Once it is in the pores you can't get it out so don't use something like knife makers green.

Karl, actually it is Camel bone vice giraffe. Very strong, polishes up nicely and makes fine looking scales. Just to clarify...

Originally Posted by ajkenne

Karl, actually it is Camel bone vice giraffe. Very strong, polishes up nicely and makes fine looking scales. Just to clarify...

I knew that. Getting old I guess. Hope you are well Austin.