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Glen Monaghan
12-04-2014, 11:38 AM
Any experience and/or suggestions for engraving water buffalo horn? I've been asked to engrave a name on the side of a fire piston made from the stuff...
John Noell
12-04-2014, 12:12 PM
No, but Im pretty sure it is mainly keratin. That is the same as a whale tooth (which I have engraved). It should engrave quite nicely with relatively low power. However, it will stink like burned hair!
Skyler Bierley
12-04-2014, 3:34 PM
No, but Im pretty sure it is mainly keratin. That is the same as a whale tooth (which I have engraved). It should engrave quite nicely with relatively low power. However, it will stink like burned hair!
John is correct. The core of a buffalo (or bison) horn is made up of bone. However, the horn is coated with keratin (similar to what makes a human fingernail).
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