Dang 'Spawz, that was terrible! ;~) I had a slice of what I figure must've been elephant tusk and made a new nut for a friend's Telecaster. It was very good to work with and after polishing even so small a fragment, revealed small growth patterns in the "grain". I'd had this piece since the early seventies and it was bought by a friend at a yard or rummage sale. I think there's something about having a bit of a large powerful animal in your guitar or on your person that mebbe goes back a long way in our past. The fragment I had no doubt was gleaned by hunters or poachers before 1972 and that doesn't make it right, but it certainly was an exotic material and if I had the money I'd surely have no second thoughts about acquiring a set of the jewels that are offered from extinct mammoths for my old Gibson. They certainly are beautiful and have a great history behind them. I wondered about Ivory Jack's claim that many of his works started out as old axe heads etc. These would surely be archaeological items and therefore taboo?