If you are ever in eastern Ohio (Dover), you need to stop at the Earnest Warther Museum. He was a master carver and did dozens of trains in extreme detail

https://thewarthermuseum.com/

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1649320543873641

They also sell high quality kitchen knives.

17 hours ago, kmealy said:

If you are ever in eastern Ohio (Dover), you need to stop at the Earnest Warther Museum. He was a master carver and did dozens of trains in extreme detail

https://thewarthermuseum.com/

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1649320543873641

They also sell high quality kitchen knives.

To have that talent!!!

We were there a couple of years ago. The story goes that when he first started carving in the early 1900's a friend of his operated a pool hall and would give him the chipped cue balls for the ivory.

Lincoln funeral train is one of the most spectacular pieces he carved in ebony and ivory, when it was legal to purchase ivory. Abalone was used near the bottom of the cars.

In the picture Lincoln's head is about 3/8".

Speaking of ivory, I've had the occasion to inlay some ivory for a project. My local piano tuner supplied me with the white keys from older pianos. They were always ivory and I've got a small box full of them.