Restoring a 20,000 year old Mammoth tusk
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00:00 Introduction
00:20 Buying a Mammoth Tusk
01:55 First look
02:56 How to Dry a Mammoth Tusk
05:19 Convincing a Wife to Love Fossils
07:58 Tusk is Ready to Work On
08:45 Peta Might Not Like Me
09:20 Mammoth Tusk Giveaway
10:22 Sanding Ivory Process
11:32 Filling Cracks in Mammoth Ivory
13:00 Suspicious Package
14:52 Seeing the Tusk Color Come Through
15:57 Drilling a Giant Hole in the Tusk
18:30 Custom Steel Base
21:08 Scott Left Me
22:00 Polishing Ivory To a High Gloss
22:41 Sharpie on Ivory?
23:27 First Attempt a Mounting
24:05 Second Attempt at Mounting
25:21 Showing My Wife…
26:09 Actual Reveal
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Here is the link to the giveaway, best of luck everyone! https://www.blacktailstudio.com/mammoth-tusk-n3-tools-giveaway
Thanks for sharing your unique mammoth tusk project. I love the prank you played on your wife. I appreciate your attention to detail and sense of humour. My 5 year old daughter and I enjoy watching all your videos and we both are fascinated with each project you take on. Thanks again for sharing your passion online. We are very fortunate to have discovered you online and admire your conscientious efforts. Looking forward to the next project. Much appreciation…Michael and Avalynn ❤
Vivian (like the name) ite.
No — but yes to your talent.
no, i definitely empathize with your wife on this one. i would not spend all that time and money on something like this… and unfortunately i don't know if this counts as restoration because you're basically applying a coat of makeup to it. however, i think she handled it very gracefully.
Man this was a awesome video F@$& what the tree huggers think 😎
Yes I would definetly get a less expencive one
Yes
Yes … cool vid, would love to see where it ended up in your house, does it have a prominent spot where visitors see it or is it in the man-cave, relegated to accompany the Kramer poster, velvet Elvis painting and sports jerseys?
Listen, as former woodworking gal and mammoth enthusiast, I'd kill to have a tusk like that in my home. I don't know where I'd put it, but I'd love it nonetheless. xD
Yes Defiantly would have a tusk like that in my home!!
Super cool! and i have eaten Jelly fish.
No, not for me.
Love this channel, mammoth tusks, fossils and ROTFL!!!
Yes an ancient tusk would be cool
Why was it wet?
Heck ya I would have like a whole mess of those things in my house, if I had one
Yes, but I'd want two tusks and the entire skull.
Yes but now I want see u restore a blue one
Aarons a great guy. Glad you guys smoothed things over👊
As a kid, someone my age found a mammoth tusk in a nearby swamp. It was appropriated by local town park nature center. It is still on display today. Funny how kids have no rights.
end of vid: YES. thats some epic stuff right there. i can at least see the peta point with regard to using a tusk from a currently living/killed animaly, but a 1-10k year old one!? cmon now. that looks really good. i still dont know why im watching this channel, but i cant turn it off
Yes
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and it’s amazing. I didn’t think to subscribe until I heard you genuinely and wholeheartedly talk about subscribing. It wasn’t the same routine like subscribe share…. Long story short love the content definitely a subscriber now.
Yes, good time as always
I like the stick right much.
NO, Nope naada …no tusks!
Great project. I can imagine some littler rivers of gold in the cracks.
I think you should have replicated the missing tip in epoxy. You have 2 options, 1 rebuild the tip making the new part obvious or 2 make the new tip perfectly match the original section.
What happened to the blue minerals
Your wife is super cool. I had to laugh at her reaction 😂
Should have been mounted as an arch rather than upright.
maybe
I love the tusk. I hate your wife. Hating something your partner loves so much, is so excited for and spent so much time on…just wow
Didnt like that part when you tasted the bone as plus acting like you sniffing coke
yes