Endpin and bridge pin supply

[peter.coombe]

Wow, thanks Bob. Just put in an order. Let's see what happens.

[Puff]

Luv it -mammoth ivory is ok but turn up in the US of A with a slice of black coral on a thong around your neck and you'll be treated by customs like Malcolm X at a KKK meeting.

[liam_fnq]

Hey Pete. Could you take a finished ebony bridge pin and put it in the chuck of a lathe then drill a little hole in the knob-end and glue in a little dot. I don't know diddly squat about wood turning though. Maybe I just showed that with the suggestion.

[Allen]

You got through that order of end pins yet Bob?

[Puff]

Think the op would be quite easily done on the drill press Liam

[Bob Connor]

You got through that order of end pins yet Bob?

I have a gross of Cocobolo and a gross of Ebony end pins Allen. I'll be bequeathing the remainder to someone in my will.

But I'll never run out.

[peter.coombe]

Could you take a finished ebony bridge pin and put it in the chuck of a lathe then drill a little hole in the knob-end and glue in a little dot.

Yep that should work. Good idea, did not think of that. Probably would not be perfectly centred, but should be good enough.

Peter

[Craig]

Peter , I've done them in the drillpress . I didn't inlay shell in these ones ( brass and Ebony ) but the idea remains the same.

I've drilled a hole ( smaller than the pin) in the middle of the vice wooden jaws . Align this hole to the chuck with the drill bit. That will centre your hole in the pin ,but be aware a pin with a cranky grain is liable to throw things out a little. prick a mark dead centre on the pin and it may help. Use a Brad point bit

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[peter.coombe]

Luv it -mammoth ivory is ok but turn up in the US of A with a slice of black coral on a thong around your neck and you'll be treated by customs like Malcolm X at a KKK meeting.

Actually from my undstanding of the rules, mammoth ivory is not ok. It is subject to the same rules.

Peter

[Puff]

Peter with respect - there is a difference between "rules" and "restrictions".

[kiwigeo]

Luv it -mammoth ivory is ok but turn up in the US of A with a slice of black coral on a thong around your neck and you'll be treated by customs like Malcolm X at a KKK meeting.

Actually from my undstanding of the rules, mammoth ivory is not ok. It is subject to the same rules.

Peter

I can't figure out why you'd bother going to great lengths to restrict supply from a species that's been extinct for at least 10,000 years.

[Kim]

Luv it -mammoth ivory is ok but turn up in the US of A with a slice of black coral on a thong around your neck and you'll be treated by customs like Malcolm X at a KKK meeting.

Actually from my undstanding of the rules, mammoth ivory is not ok. It is subject to the same rules.

Peter

I can't figure out why you'd bother going to great lengths to restrict supply from a species that's been extinct for at least 10,000 years.

Well you don't wanna go making them even deaderer now would ya Marty..

In reality I suspect it has something to do with the 'environmental' damage that is done by those who harvest the material, "illegally"......after all, we would not want those vagabonds stumbling across a significant find and taking credit when there are so many 'qualified' paleontologists waiting in line to do a dig and make the name for themselves that will allow them to sit on their arses doing sweet FA for the rest of their working life except flying all over the globe fully funded to attend countless conferences where they will take their duty of talk down the achievements of lesser men very seriously...That's the sort of thing that could screw their environment completely.

Shell be right...unless of course its from the USA

Kim

[peter.coombe]

Got my endpins and bridgepins with Paua Abalone dots, about 10 years supply. Gurian instruments package arrived yesterday, package from LMI arrived about a week ago. So they are still getting through US Customs. Get em while it still lasts.

[Allen]

Don't ask and don't tell hey?

[peter.coombe]

Yep.