Posted on 08/19/2010 11:31:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
When you can buy pieces for $35 a POUND, there isn’t a shortage.
http://www.mammothivory.info/p.aspx?p=249
Looks like I need to hunt up my supply of paleo ivory and get to work designing and fabricating.
You can also buy meteorites on ebay. I’d rather have a space rock anyway.
How much elephant ivory is going to be patina’d to be passed off as mammoth?
Hunt up a supply of Valium while you’re at it, because the fissures in ivory can make you crazy. Sometimes they don’t appear until you’re done...or hours later...or weeks later.
I’m confused. So, when Michele gets a tooth pulled, she makes it into jewelry?
No shortage until the low price of the finite quantity raw material causes the bulk of the supply to be exausted. After that the price will skyrocket and what is left of it will be depleted even faster as speculators buy all they can get to make a quick profit due to the increasing rarity.
It also makes GREAT grips for your .45 single action army...if $1000 doesn’t bother you!
It’s pretty obvious when you cut into it, in the appearance of fine lines that are different in elephants and mammoths.
Thanks for the advice.
For an engineer trying think like an artist, designing is the hardest part.
And now this :)
So we should stop the sale of all materials not currently being organically produced?
Maybe you haven't been aware of it but this stuff has been sold for many, many years.
“So, when Michele gets a tooth pulled, she makes it into jewelry?”
I made a nice bolo tie out of a molar I had pulled. Used to wear it to gigs. It got more attention than my steel playing!
Sounds like another con job so Moochela can feel special.
Actually I was looking at a set of these as grips for my two Schofield revolvers for when I do CASS. Either mammoth ivory or Giraffe bone will look great.
If it wasn’t rare it wouldn’t fetch a high price and wouldn’t be coveted by the likes of Michelle O. Do you see Michelle wearing lumps of coal?
They would complement a M1911 very well. That is a very good idea.
So, can she get a whole whooly mammoth tooth in her nose??
A lovely image, and delightfully racist.
I had all four wisdom teeth pulled at once (squirrel-cheeks for a week) when I was a teenager. The doc was careful to keep them intact, and a few years later I had them set in silver as cufflinks. Still have ‘em, and the double-takes of the observant are still priceless!
Great! My lady friend dropped a picture frame on her big toe. Nail turned black and finally fell off. I lacquered it up and made another bolo tie. As I concentrated so hard on my playing, I was pretty unanimated on stage. I tried to do other things to make myself somewhat interesting to the audience. Odd pictures under the clear plastic pickguard, strange clothes, etc..
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