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Ebony and ivory
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naxie
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Immediately made me start humming a McCartney song!
I prefer the shape of the ebony but both are beautifully made. How does real Ivory turn compared to the synthetic stuff?
Not many of us will be able to turn real ivory, and rightly so. I guess the poor guy that donated that stuff is long gone so at least some of his beauty has lived on.
Thanks for showing Peter!
I prefer the shape of the ebony but both are beautifully made. How does real Ivory turn compared to the synthetic stuff?
Not many of us will be able to turn real ivory, and rightly so. I guess the poor guy that donated that stuff is long gone so at least some of his beauty has lived on.
Thanks for showing Peter!
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Smart designs on both pens especially the ivory.!!!!!
Gav
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Smart designs, and a great use for those materials rather than them ending up in landfill!
Penpal
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Ed,
Certainly some Elephant Ivory from the white keys of a very old piano for me almost impossible to show the styrations and detail black of the African Ebony keys. Reminds me of my long long former life as a photographer when the brides wore white and the grooms black when we used to selectively tone to acheive facial colour sepia and use cow gum over the blacks to preserve them. In the 70,s we had a 120 yr old Photo Studio and all portraits were B&W hand coloured until colour neg film burst onto the market. So the only Ivory used was the whitish keys the pen and black keys are African Ebony and the other pen Faux Ivory. I tend to state as I did initially the material but this time sid not itemise sorry. Mostly running from one thing or another the syndrome retired people develop.
Kind regards Peter.
Certainly some Elephant Ivory from the white keys of a very old piano for me almost impossible to show the styrations and detail black of the African Ebony keys. Reminds me of my long long former life as a photographer when the brides wore white and the grooms black when we used to selectively tone to acheive facial colour sepia and use cow gum over the blacks to preserve them. In the 70,s we had a 120 yr old Photo Studio and all portraits were B&W hand coloured until colour neg film burst onto the market. So the only Ivory used was the whitish keys the pen and black keys are African Ebony and the other pen Faux Ivory. I tend to state as I did initially the material but this time sid not itemise sorry. Mostly running from one thing or another the syndrome retired people develop.
Kind regards Peter.