Mammoth tooth blank

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I have a customer wanting a pen made from mammoth tooth. I've searched all over for pen blanks but can't find any. Where does everyone get them?

Thanks,
Ray
 
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I thought I bought one from a vendor at the this year's Southeast Pen Gathering (SEPG). I went down to my shop and discovered it was an alligator jaw blank. I thought the name of the vendor would be on the blank. Anyway, is was not mammoth tooth and no label - 2 strikes.
SEPG has a FB group. You can search on "mammoth" and see if it returns any results. I am 60% sure someone at the gathering was selling them. Happy hunting! PB has other pen turning and pen blank groups where folks make this stuff.
 
rizaydog said:
I have a customer wanting a pen made from mammoth tooth. I've searched all over for pen blanks but can't find any. Where does everyone get them?

Thanks,
Ray
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"Where does everyone get them?" ..... The fact is, we don't !!!

I have seen such things advertised ONLY ONCE in my 9+ years of making pens ..... just once ..... and that was a long time ago.
 
Hard to find it but you might try masecraftsupply.com. They sell a lot of knife handle material and they might be able to point you in the right direction. Won't be cheap though!
 
I just rang Scotty Bulpitt on his home phone number from Australia being 1 519 741 0616. Yes he has them priced from 80 dollars. The one I bought cost 80 dollars and Cobalt blue banded (beaut colour). 5X1X1.

From Canberra Australia I used 001115197410616. He is a great bloke.

Kind regards Peter Hay.
 
This is the drill available in so many countries,cut the blank into two using a cheap 3 wheeler bandsaw with a metal cutting blade. Drilled size for this brass then used accurate metal drill to finish the hole. Turned using the Easy Cutter 4 way (one cutter) to turn the pen,every time I blunted the four faces I placed it face down on a diamond plate,few rubs ready to go. Took me hrs to turn.
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I just joind here as well friends and will soon have 60 ready yep a huge group its take a lot of time and expense to prepare but almost ready , there will be natural brown ,natural whiteish .cobalt blue ,light blue ,purple wine ,and black and grey - these are 5x3/4x3/4 ive been asked to make them this size to help speed up the turning process (less material to remove ) makes sense to me , I still may do some 5x1x1 who knows ,, I also have blocks that are like 5x1-3/4 x 1-1/4 some a bit smaller some a bit bigger but all are big enough to do 2 pens with and these would be 2 piece pens shaft and cap , I have a few right now -red-green-blue-natural all on my page https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.thehouseofmammoth.ca/
 
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