Woolly Mammoth Extravaganza (Warning: knife content)

Locutus D'Borg

Locutus D'Borg

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This is my Mammoth collection. The roughly 10,000-year-old fossilized Mammoth is either from the tusk or tooth, and the colors are natural. The blue Mammoth is from a 2017 find. Thanks to Medx2018 for selling me the wonderful Case XX.

On the left is the William Henry B12 Spearpoint "Adventure" with frame and bolsters in hand-forged "T-Rex" Damascus by Delbert Ealy, inlaid with the ring cut of a 10,000-year-old fossilized Woolly Mammoth tusk. The blade is 'Intrepid' Damascus hand-forged by Chad Nichols.
On top is a William Henry money clip in Mokume Gane and Mammoth tooth insert. On the right is the brand new (to me, thanx, Tom) Case XX Canoe with ring cut natural blue Mammoth tusk covers (handles). And on the bottom is a Tak Fukuda (of Seki City, Japan) pocket knife made for Browning with hand-forged Damascus blade and bolsters and Mammoth tooth scales.

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I don't think that I'd be allowed to bring them into New York State...
So I will just have to enjoy yours... 😁
 
I only have one Mammoth ivory knife, a Brad Zinker custom.

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Cool stuff! And fascinating to think that part of an animal that walked the earth many thousands of years ago is now a part of your knife in 2022, and here we are admiring it. The past, and the memory of that long dead prehistoric animal lives on.
 
I only worked with mammoth once. It was a $250 rectangular chunk of interior tusk. I was pretty worried about messing up.
I wrapped it in tape and slowly drilled the hole down the middle on a lathe to be extra careful. No cracks or breakout!
They actually used the image in Knives 2022.
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Glenn Goodlett said:
I don't understand the illegality in NY. I thought the intent of the law was to deter poaching of wildlife. Nobody is poaching mammoth. I didn't read the entire link though.
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It is because when Mammoth ivory is peeled and cut into smaller pieces, it can be much harder to distinguish, making it easy to pass off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth tusks
 
Landshark99 said:
It is because when Mammoth ivory is peeled and cut into smaller pieces, it can be much harder to distinguish, making it easy to pass off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth tusks
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That is the rationale used by a number of states that have enacted mammoth bans. However, if it is a cross cut piece, it is quite easy to tell the difference between modern elephant and mammoth. The problem is that most knife handles are not cross cut, so it is hard to tell. Mastodon is harder to distinguish from modern elephant because its schreger lines have similar intersection angles.

In some states the ban also includes molars, so the mammoth molar handles are also not allowed.

 
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