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Walnut hollow form

This piece is about 7” in diameter it is hollow with a 1/4” wall thickness. The butterfly’s are curly maple and are functional.
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Emiliano Achaval
How was it turning it? Bill jones has a lot of tips on Ivory turning in his two books, Notes from the shop. The old English ivory turners were called bone grubbers, they basically scraped it; the point tool would be the most recognizable tool we still use from them. Interesting butterflies.
 
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Emiliano Achaval said:
How was it turning it? Bill jones has a lot of tips on Ivory turning in his two books, Notes from the shop. The old English ivory turners were called bone grubbers, they basically scraped it; the point tool would be the most recognizable tool we still use from them. Interesting butterflies.
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I have turned quite a bit of ivory with no problem. I haven’t read any thing on it
 

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