Help! I'm a relative newbie to knife making and seem to have gotten in a little over my head. I've been putting the finishing touches on a Carbon Damascus Drop Point from Texas Knifemaker's Supply. Everything has gone good so far. I just put on a set of fossilized walrus tusk scales and have finished the shaping and stages of sanding and just started the buffing. I've never worked with this material before. It's very beautiful, but has a lot of hair line cracks through it which are now filled with rouge and I can't get it out!! Does anybody out there know of a solvent or way to remove the rouge from these hair line cracks. I've tried rubbing alcohol and a very fine stiff brush, I also put a new/clean wheel on my buffer to try to pull it out. No luck! I'm hoping someone has an idea or am I SOL? Let me know. Thanks, udtseal@trip.net.
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Fossilized Walrus Ivory
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The first trick to try is paste wax, the solvent that keeps the wax soft will soften the compound in most cases and sort of float it out as you rub it in. If this does not work I use laquer thinners, this dries out the surface of the scale and can loosen epoxy if you use too much so just a little on a rag please.
Before you rebuff rub in several coats of wax to fill and seal the surface, keeps the handle cleaner while buffing.
Before you rebuff rub in several coats of wax to fill and seal the surface, keeps the handle cleaner while buffing.