Well, maybe not Moby Dick, but it is from a whale
I bought some fossilized whale bone from Exotic Blanks a while back and just got around to making one. Since my oosik bolt action sold at the last pen show, I thought I'd try one with fossilized whale bone. I decided to do it on a gun metal bolt action kit.
Wow, the bone was tough! Much harder to turn than antler or oosik. Since the piece of bone showed so much open pores, I flooded the open pores with thin CA. Let it dry for two days, then turned it. It took about 5 times longer to turn than I normally spend on a bolt action. I wet sanded it to 12000 MM, then applied Scratch Free and Hut's plastic polish (I am horrible at trying to do a CA finish:frown. You can feel the bone and the finish doesn't look plastic.
C & C welcome.
I bought some fossilized whale bone from Exotic Blanks a while back and just got around to making one. Since my oosik bolt action sold at the last pen show, I thought I'd try one with fossilized whale bone. I decided to do it on a gun metal bolt action kit.
Wow, the bone was tough! Much harder to turn than antler or oosik. Since the piece of bone showed so much open pores, I flooded the open pores with thin CA. Let it dry for two days, then turned it. It took about 5 times longer to turn than I normally spend on a bolt action. I wet sanded it to 12000 MM, then applied Scratch Free and Hut's plastic polish (I am horrible at trying to do a CA finish:frown
. You can feel the bone and the finish doesn't look plastic.C & C welcome.
