What is Resin Scrimshaw?

Newport Collection is a recreation of the art form of Scrimshaw. It is an Americain folk art that began over 200 years ago. The original design is hand done and beautifully etched in keeping with the Scrimshaw tradition.

The polymer we use to produce our product captures all the fine detailed etching of the original design. This recreation has been comletely han finished.

 How we make our Resin scrimshaw

We take a blank piece of corian and hand etch it, just like we would do to antique ivory
We then make a mold of the hand etched corian piece
Once the mold has set, we then make our own mixture of a polymer resin
We then pour the resin mixture into the molds that we have made.
The molds with the resin are then placed into a heated pressure pot.  This will allow the resin to set, as well as removed all the air bubbles created during the pour
After a set time, the molds are removed from the pressure pots
The resin pieces are then sanded and inked.  From there they are set into the findings.