Hi All,

I live over in the San Francisco bay area and go abalone diving every so often and will have a buch of shells sitting around. The shells look okay in their natural state but when used in straight razors or on guitars, they look superb.

Does anyone here know the proper/safe way to cutting, flatten and polishing them are? I have read in the past (haven't looked in a few years) online that working with abalone shells, the dust that it creates and breathing it in is much worse than asbestos.

There something about the dust that it has microscopic barbs or something to that matter.

Have a great day and God bless.


Thanks,
kelly