Ivory inlays for lines in fretless conversion

[gmjhowe]

I wonder if it would really look any different if you used a cream colored plastic or rock maple? The fret slots are so thin it will just look like some unidentifiable beige material, so why Ivory?

Essentially because I had the thin bits of ivory. Where as I would need to buy anything else.

 

[DwaynieAD]

If you are referring to their antlers, that is not true. Their teeth can be considered ivory, but they are not big enough to do much with. Ivory is basically a tooth (dentine) with no enamel on its surface, from what I have read, and remember, don't quote me on that. The only animals on earth today that have ivory in the traditional sense are elephants and walruses, at least ivory in quantities large enough to be useable.

Not referring to antlers, elk have true ivory molars, I have 8 of them.

 

[DwaynieAD]

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Also hippos, sea lions, wild boars, sperm whales, and narwhals.

 

[Hopkins]

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Also hippos, sea lions, wild boars, sperm whales, and narwhals.

I never thought about narwhals,

Walrus and elephants have the biggest tusks, especially elephants but either way, its a disgusting reason to kill an animal.

 

[streetfighterpa]

As a piano mover, we junk old pianos all the time. I have quite the cache of ivory key tops. I can't justify just letting them get trashed.

 

[callofcthulhu]

The helium shortage always kind of baffled me.

How can we be "running out of" the second most ubiquitous thing in the universe?​

 

[gmjhowe]

As a piano mover, we junk old pianos all the time. I have quite the cache of ivory key tops. I can't justify just letting them get trashed.

Also, another concern is that if the bass ever crosses any borders, it will likely get trashed/destroyed. Which we have seen happen when made from certain woods on these forums before.

Whats nice about making the nut from mammoth ivory is it can be easily removed if you want to move around with it.

@streetfighterpa Any stories of pianos being destroyed across borders etc?

 

[reverendrally]

As a piano mover, we junk old pianos all the time. I have quite the cache of ivory key tops. I can't justify just letting them get trashed.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[streetfighterpa]

@streetfighterpa Any stories of pianos being destroyed across borders etc?

Not really. I mostly just cover New York state. My sister in law here in NY makes scrimshaw bookmarks with some of them, they have a house in Nova Scotia too and she refuses to cross borders with them.

 

[DwaynieAD]

I never thought about narwhals,

Walrus and elephants have the biggest tusks, especially elephants but either way, its a disgusting reason to kill an animal.

By that wasn't what we were talking about.