After starting a truss rod cover for fun, then realizing I just committed to making a left-handed cover instead of the right handed cover intended, I went back to the Kraken to fill in the waves and darken it down to balance it.  At this point it will sit for a week or so to let it kind of gel in my mind.  The left hand side needs one line removed, the right hand side needs the mountains “de-stippled”, but beyond that, it’s done – or at least I am done working on this piece.  You realize at some point that this is as far as you can go with a piece of scrimshaw, and if you continue on fixing this and “improving” that, you will end up sanding it down and having nothing but ivory dust to show for it.  I am close to this point on the Kraken, and have learned a lot at every session.  Once complete, it will get a couple of coats of archival wax, then it will either go onto etsy.com or be sold elsewhere.

Last updated by Andrew at June 3, 2012.