Carving Eagles on Ivory 1911 Grips: Creating Specialized Tools

Sometimes you just don't have the right tool, so you have to make do with what you have! Part two off carving model 1911 pistol grips: Making a tool to cut the border around the screw holes.
Watch the rest of the project here: • Carving Eagles on Ivor...
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Stockman Original is your guide through the lost arts and the forgotten crafts. Brian Stockman is a master carver with more than 50 years of experience carving all mediums from wood, to stone, horn, bone, ivory, and ice. He has a particular speciality as a scrimshander (one who does scrimshaw), carrying on the ancient art popularized by New England whalers. Brian has spent a lifetime gathering knowledge of lost arts and forgotten crafts, all of which he shares with you.

[@davidwhiren817]

Craft tool catalogs & kits for craft makers , is a phenomenon of the early 20th century , & the biggest part of it began after the end of WW2 , early 50's to the present !!! Serious crafts people had to have a knack at tool making previous to this period , world wide !!! Quite often the work they were doing , was done with a tool they had made , or , it was a hand me down , inherited from someone close to you . who had also been in the trade !!! Folks would not believe the inventiveness of some of these folk artists & the tool making industries that spun off from them !!!

[@jacknobrex]

Creative and intelligent solution, a creative mind always comes up with a solution.👏👏👏👏

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thank you Jack!

[@scottmcfarland2149]

Brian you never disappoint with your seemingly endless talent! Slàinte Mhath 🥃

[@jojowilson1955]

Ingenious tool you've created! You never cease to amaze! 👍🏽

[@StockmanOriginal]

Hey Jojo, thank you very much for that. Now l’ll have it for future grips.

[@trulax6542]

Can’t wait to watch the eagle being carved !!!

[@StockmanOriginal]

❤️

[@plainnpretty]

Simple, clever and you didn’t have to buy anything. I like it . Thanks Brian

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thank you Traveswith Harley, l appreciate that!

[@57WillysCJ]

Custom tools is how things get done. It does consume time though. Way to think outside the box.

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thank you, you’re right about it taking time but I figured it would be worth it because I plan on doing more of these grips.

[@davedelany2116]

That tool in it self is a work of art 👌 I guarantee in a hundred years someone will pick that up and loose sleep trying to figure out what it's for 😜

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thanks Dave, a lot of times I get these little ideas and talk myself out of spending the extra time to make them but I know I will be doing more of these grips so it seemed like a good thing. And it works really well too.😀

[@davedelany2116]

@@StockmanOriginal I'm the same, on rare occasions I take the time to make a special tool but the are always janky and only built for pure function. Yours on the the other hand are pure works of art, they look amazing, work amazing and are made to last 👌 my hats off to you 👏

[@gregorypennell1755]

Ingenious! 🙌🏼

[@StockmanOriginal]

❤️

[@Musrusticus-]

Fantastic!

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thanks Musrusticus, heading to the post office today!😀

[@HEBerube]

Brilliant!

[@StockmanOriginal]

❤️

[@jsteelsadventureandvariety4545]

Neat tool 😮 pretty crafty stuff Brian

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thanks Janson, it worked out well.

[@williamstclairz9913]

Good stuff as always

[@StockmanOriginal]

Thank you William, I appreciate that.

[@chowdarychinna5907]

Pls help how to identify the elephant ivory

[@StockmanOriginal]

Hello new friend, we have a video dedicated to that topic. Elephant is pretty easy to identify by its grain which is called schrager lines. On the end grain it looks kinda checkerboardish, and the long grain it appears as stripes of different shades of white. For more details scroll through our content list for that video. Welcome to the tribe.

[@StockmanOriginal]

Here's that video on how to identify different types of ivory: ua-cam.com/video/Vv9Z65XHTHA/v-deo.html