Tanto in Walrus Ivory

[R.Carpenter]

Here is my first photo on Knife Dogs of a piece I completed not to long ago.I"ll never do another one after 128 hrs.Its a Japanese Fire Dragon carved in walrus ivory.The blade is 1065 polished to a mirror finish.I left the guard rather simple not to distract from the handle.It is now displayed on the bottom end of a walrus tusk that I scrimshawed a fire dragon on shooting flames up at the knife.Anyway thanks for taking a look. R.Carpenter

 

[Jim Coffee]

WOW..that carving is amazing. very nice work

 

[Denny Eller]

Terrific work!

 

[Bill T]

That carving is incredible... Looks like it belongs in a museum .

 

[Carey Quinn]

Holy cow!

I used to do a little carving but nothing as detailed as that and I can only begin to imagine the work you have done.

Beautiful,
Carey

 

[Rock]

Amazing. You must be insane! I barely have the patience and attention span to tie my shoes!

 

[wdtorque]

yep

That carving is incredible... Looks like it belongs in a museum .

Mr. Carpenter, Outstanding. Beautiful.
Still chuckling, photo #1 on KD, don't know how you can top it!

Dozier

 

[Brett Mathews]

Ray did you carve the ivory dragon too it looks familair.

 

[Patrick]

That is really WILD. The carving is so intricate. There's no way I could even imagine accomplishing something like that. Well done Sir.

Pat

 

[Bruce Bump]

Incredilble carving skills. Thanks for posting here.
Would you mind showing some of the tools you use for this detailed carving? Not that I could do it but sometime I want to try it and dont know where to begin.

 

[Ernie Swanson]

Very, very beautiful!! That carving is amazing!!