No More Mammoth Ivory!!!!!!!!

[Mike Hull]

I've gotta agree with Rhino Knives,this person will never be happy with whatever you do for him/her.Give them a refund,tell them "it's been nice"but think you would be happier buying from someone else.

 

[Brad Duncan]

Well I am glad that so many of you agree with me .I guess I am not crazy.I talked to the customer today.I am just to Damn nice.I offerd to sell the first knife and make him another from scratch.That is it though if he is not happy with the new knife in pearl and eggerling damascus then he can get his money back and I will move on.Now I have to find someone to buy the Mammoth one???????
Brad

 

[dogman]

Yeah, those cracks in the ivory just ruin a knife...

 

[akivory]

I am sorry to hear you are having so much trouble with your ivory.The way I see it there are three things involved here,the quality of the ivory ,the skill of the maker and informing the customer.Ivory has been used for thousands of years and will continue to be used by skilled knife makers.I have sold over 50,000 pound of mammoth ivory in the last fifteen years and have only had two small picees of masodon.Because of the low price of gold and the shut down of the mines most mammoth is now coming from Siberia.I have been making handles for stick tang knives from mammoth tooth roots.They are hard to use but some of the most beautiful handles I have ever seen .I do not make knives but sell material to knifemaker supplyers.I carve for a living and one of the best selling items I make are carvings of musk oxen and mammoth from mammoth teeth.Bcause of the material I end up getting about 20% of them back for repair or replacement.I charge more to make up for it and educate my customers.Dont give up on ivory.Chuck

 

[Frank Niro]

I am now doing more than half of my folders with mamoth ivory. All the material you showed would probably rate very high or the some of best with knowledgeable people.Not everyone call tell a well down knife from a poor one. The situation you went through is probably similar. Frank

 

[R A Wilson]

Brad, Stop your scaring me
I just ordered some bark so i can try it out. I have never used ivory before. Would stabilizing it help to keep the shrinking, warping,and cracks to a minimum?

 

[Frank Niro]

Brad here is another thought. Perhaps what the person was looking for was elephant ivory. A very different material in appearance for sure. I have some mamoth ivory that shows the outside probably exactly as it was on the animal.The pieces are sort of gray and yellow in color and has fine, consistant, lines. Sounds great but when you see the other stuff that has weathered and even taken on color and has cracks etc. the original unweathered stuff isn,t much. By the way the knife sure looks like a nice piece of work. Frank.