Ivory/fossilized ivory supplier?

Nabok

Nabok

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I’ve searched the posts here about ivory and fossilized ivory suppliers, but haven’t really seen a source for stabilized material. Are you guys stabilizing your own, sending it out for stabilizing or is there someone selling it that I haven’t found?

Todd
 
I know you specify stabilized but .... Do a search on akivory (that is his forum handle), Chuck Leake. You will have to get it stabilized but Chuck sells good stuff at a fair price.

rlinger
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Chuck (akivory) is a great guy and very knowledgable. Shoot him an email he should be able to take care of yea.
 
Thanks guys, I forgot about akivory, I hadn’t seen his name for a while. For anyone who has sent ivory out to be stabilized is their a minimum size for the pieces? The material is for a project making martini picks among other things, so I figured it should be stabilized. I had thought about buying scrap pieces, but don’t know if that would be a hassle for the stabilizer.

Todd
 
Emm, don't most stabilisers use formaldehyde in the solution? I'd rather go with unstabilised and just replace them as they go, thanks! I made something similar out of ivoury a month or so ago, though I was planning to use it as a primitive needle... :confused: You could go with scrap mammoth or elephant ivoury for this. Try a search on eBay, and you should be able to get a pound for about $20.

Best,

Darryl

Yup. Here ya go. Half a dozen martini picks out of just the one piece...

http://cgi.ebay.com/CMT021-Chunky-W...54QQihZ006QQcategoryZ3230QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
Good point Darryl, I don’t know what kind of solution is used, most just refer to polymers, acrylics, and for some applications, dyes. I wasn’t planning on making the whole thing out of ivory, just using ivory as for a carved accent on top of a sterling or nickel silver pin. I was hoping that by using stabilized material any incidental contact with the liquid wouldn’t adversely affect the ivory.

Todd
 
Ahh, yeah. Right, good point. Little decorative finials could be done out of even smaller scrap! :D I think I have about 10 pennyweight of ivoury I could send you for it! :p
 
Darryl,

I appreciate the generous offer, at the moment I am leaning towards buying at least a pound, or enough to justify sending out for stabilizing, pending the results of my research. Thanks as well for the auction link, I had seen the companies web site, but hadn’t found any auctions from them yet. I didn’t play last year, but many Idaho Art Metals Guild members made martini picks for the Martini Mixoff, a lot were to big and top heavy, I thought some ivory pieces, especially if I can carve some nice ones would be appropriately classic for the occasion.

Todd
 
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