Jeff Wisnia wrote:

Sunworshipper wrote:


I've played with rose wood before. Is it close to that?


Not in my opinion...


I could go on... Say if a elephant dies naturally , what percentage
of the tusk is solid ?


There's a cone shaped hole starting at the back of the tusk, roughly
half the tusk diameter at the back end. I'm not sure just how far up the
tusk that hole goes, but about a third of the way up it would be my guess.

Does ivory have a really good function other

than decorative except say combs and such before plastic?


I'm stuck trying to think of one...

Is it more

like plastic than wood?


I don't think it's really much like either. One major difference between
any plastic I've worked with is that ivory will take a lot of heat. You
can jamb a red hot poker against a piece of ivory and it'll scarcely
leave a mark. Most plastics would melt or burn if you try that on them.


Can it be turned easily in a lathe?

Yes, quite nicely.

Can it be

glued together like for a chess board?


Yes, but more likely glued *onto* something like a piece of wooden board.

A lot of pretty large decorative ivory pieces are coming out of China
these days which aren't carved from solid ivory. They are made from lots
of thin pieces of ivory tiled onto a wooden core, with the joints worked
into the decorative carving and engraving on them so they're barely
noticed at a quick glance.

I've seen 4 foot long "tusks" made that way, which must have had more
than a hundred ivory tiles covering them.


ok, I'll stop. Just curious.


Thas OK...As long as your not a cat. G

Jeff


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