Ivory chips for rust

[Ray Singer]

If anyone can part with small bag of ivory chips suitable for removing red rust, please send me an email at raymondsinger@gmail.com. I recently acquired a beautiful blade which unfortunately has some large patches of active rust on the lower part of the nakago. This is typically treated like a rusty tsuba, and I would like to make a project over the holidays of addressing the active corrosion.

 

Kind regards,

Ray

[Ed]

check your e-mail Ray.

[Ray Singer]

Thank you Ed! I just sent a reply.

 

Best regards,

Ray

[lonely panet]

will deer antler work??

[Ray Singer]

Thanks Hamish, I do think that antler would work well for a project of this type. Ed is making several pieces available though and I'll share the results of this project after the holidays.

 

Best regards,

Ray

[Curran]

will deer antler work??

lesser hardness index. It works, but not as well.

Thus it is better for 'take it slow'.

 

We had a knife maker at the Tampa Sword Show for 1 or 2 years. He had a box of ivory bits leftover from making handles. I told him to put them out with a price tag on them. He was a little surprised how many people bought bits off him.

[b.hennick]

I was one of them. Then I found piano keys!

[SAS]

Hanko seals are good too, i got a lot from a Japanese seller a while back with some nice wood and ivory ones.

[Greg F]

I can part with an ivory key if anyone is in need.

 

Greg