dgscott, thank you!
I have made dozens of mammoth ivory pens (or pens with mammoth ivory insterts).
Hairline cracks - it is usual thing for mammoth, but it is not hard to fix it (for example, with dental cement). Only once had problems with huge cracks that, and I just made new pen for that customer. So, mammoth ivory is a raffle....
And you are right, odor is disgusting... First. Now I am accustomed to this.
It is a little sweet for me. :biggrin:
SDB777, do you mean pen kit or lathe?
By the way, there is a sister of that pen. From snow white ivory.