Yes! It's just part of the adventure, enjoy learning something new every time you go out to the shop.Still being new I try to improve on each knife and I have a lot of weak areas to work on. Seems like every knife there is something that I wish I had done better. Is that just how it is with knife making?
That looks nice. What type of synthetic ivoryis that exactly? It looks very real.
Purchased it here: https://guitarpartsandmore.com/prod...-Ivory-S-trade-S-Grade-Knife-Scales-Slabs-124
Also used it on this knife
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Lori Ristinen (the lady that did the scrimshaw) really liked it. She said it worked just like ivory.
It very easy to shape and takes a polish well.