A buddy of mine works part time with a famous ivory carver (Wurther or Werther?) in Ohio, and slips me some scraps now and then. Yes, the regulations governing the sale and transfer of elephant ivory are draconian, but not insurmountable. Laterly he sent me a gallon zip-loc bag full of ivory dust (They evidently scrap nothing when working it, plus a pretty sophisticated dust collection system is employed for health reasons.) I've been meaning to try using epoxy as a matrix and seeing what can be fashioned out of the result. Anybody ever try this?
