Anyone ever use old ivory piano keys?

[David Schott]

I just received a bag of old piano keys that have real ivory, but the keys arent solid and are instead just really thin sheets of ivory on top of wood. I would guess the ivory is about 1-2mm thick at best.

What can I use this stuff for? Anything other than inlays?

I am gonna make some buddies ivory guitar picks, but couldn't figure out a way to use them as scales due to their very thin thickness.

 

[Stag & Steel]

I use to make scrimshaw jewelry out of them, but aside from that maybe you could make some inlays. They are too thin for anything else.

 

[rayban]

They would make cool looking shields(??)

 

[Bumppo]

You might be able to use them for sheath inlays as well,

 

[Ken Hurst]

Are you suggesting thst some of them might be for sale ?? Info re. this please .........................

 

[ohen cepel]

I have thought about laminating them into a larger block. Not sure if it would work on not though.