What's faux ivory?
Not ivory. So what's it made of?
Plastic? Does it have much strength?
What's faux ivory?
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Alternative ivory is a polyester with some sort of filling that gives it that swirly grain. It's pretty strong but not dimensionally stable (it shrinks). It's good for rings as Avery said, but no good for making instruments.
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Laugh all you want, but our insatiable lust for faux ivory flute rings has driven toilet seats to the brink of extinction.
This, of course is more serious for the ladies than the men as we never knew what to do with them anyway.
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Does that explain the splash heard from your loo for the number 2?Doc Jones wrote:Laugh all you want, but our insatiable lust for faux ivory flute rings has driven toilet seats to the brink of extinction.
This, of course is more serious for the ladies than the men as we never knew what to do with them anyway.
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The obvious
It comes from faux-elephants.
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Re: The obvious
For a moment I thought Andrew was back.cocusflute wrote:It comes from faux-elephants.
Faux Ivory
I don't know what the composition of Faux Ivory is, but if it is anything like what they used to call "art ivory", which was widely used for ferrule rings and mounts, drone caps and chanter soles on bagipes, it will turn a horrid brown color over the years as the plasticizers migrates to the surface and oxydizes.
My Lawrie practice chanter, which I bought in 1940, had an "art ivory" mouthpiece but the ferrule ring and sole were (supposedly ) ivory. The mouthpiece turned a yellowish tan within a year or so, the sole split apart and was replaced with an Art Ivory one, which rapidly turned into the color of a brown ale. It may not look so great, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this little instrument has accompanied me wherever I went ever since, including the jungles of the Southwest Pacific. I guarantee it will not split!
I believe that the ferrule ring is actually bone because it has a grain almost like wood....qute different from ivory's typical pattern. And I wonder why instrument makers don't use bone for this purpose now that ivory is verboten? Peter Noy offers flutes with blow edge inserts of bone, walrus ivory from the tusks which these mammals leave on Arctic beaches where the congregate ... both of which are legal
My Lawrie practice chanter, which I bought in 1940, had an "art ivory" mouthpiece but the ferrule ring and sole were (supposedly ) ivory. The mouthpiece turned a yellowish tan within a year or so, the sole split apart and was replaced with an Art Ivory one, which rapidly turned into the color of a brown ale. It may not look so great, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this little instrument has accompanied me wherever I went ever since, including the jungles of the Southwest Pacific. I guarantee it will not split!
I believe that the ferrule ring is actually bone because it has a grain almost like wood....qute different from ivory's typical pattern. And I wonder why instrument makers don't use bone for this purpose now that ivory is verboten? Peter Noy offers flutes with blow edge inserts of bone, walrus ivory from the tusks which these mammals leave on Arctic beaches where the congregate ... both of which are legal
Re: Faux Ivory
Off topic but I can't help but notice.Mal wrote: My Lawrie practice chanter, which I bought in 1940,...
...including the jungles of the Southwest Pacific.
Did you serve in the Pacific during the war?
Aanvil
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