Here is the link to the giveaway, best of luck everyone! www.blacktailstudio.com/mammoth-tusk-n3-tools-giveaway

That ending was pure gold! Your wife slammed on the brakes and the car rocked back, the emotions conveyed by that wtf from the car is just amazing stuff

That overcompensating comment, immediately followed by pulling out a 36" bar just got me. Delightful.

If my husband told me he spent over $7K on a Mammoth tusk and it turned out to actually be real and the end result looked as good as yours, I'd be the most excited and stoked woman ever!!! I am an amateur fossil collector though. Watching your process was so much fun and the end result turned out incredible! You showed respect for the animal and what is now a piece of beautiful art and history. I hope you and your family enjoy it for decades to come! What a rare find!!!❤

That was a pretty mammoth task, but you ended up doing a great job! It's like a museum piece, a piece of history in your house.

Best tool ive ever seen in your shop: 13:13

Yes I would 100%. This is the only channel that produces 30 minute long videos that I can watch the entirety of without ever feeling the need to skip ahead. Extraordinary skills you have. Well done.

No... I don't have a tusk in my house... but I have absolute respect for the care and diligence you exhibited in the is restoration. Thanks so much, Cam!

Yes i would definitely put a tusk in my house, your wife was so kind to let you love it all on your own haha amazing video

I honestly think this is my favourite channel. The humour and the amazing skill just makes it so enjoyable to watch. This was truly an incredible video!

The absolute confidence Joe had when you asked if it’d hold your weight is everything 👌 It’s the same reassuring feeling I got talking with my wife’s surgical team

YES!!!! This video was worth all 27 minutes and 44 seconds. Inspiring!

one off the reasons i subscribed to you is because you do not hold back when showing love. you always show the people who help you out love, and i love that! you always tag people in the description, make it easy for others to connect with them. You are doing an awesome job! Keep it up!

You slowly becoming one of the most unique channel on youtube. I never thought I'd be so entertain watching a mammoth tusk restoration.

One of your most entertaining videos yet. Love that you let your personality through, did all that to prank your wife and featured her in it. Also the ending is gold 😂

You sense of humor is spot on! Feel no shame at all man! The full stop at the end is priceless!!!!

Yes!!! I would definitely have a mammoth tusk in my house. I love all fossils, hence all the rocks in my house. Loved watching the progression of this. Thank you!

Dude, shout out to Scott. I've been subscribed to you for nearly two years now, and he's been a fantastic addition to the channel. It's great seeing you interact with him and he's also clearly a smart dude. That air-hole trick in the epoxy container is one I've incorporated into my own life. Blacktail is going to the MOON! 10million subs by next year!

Yes. I love the bit at the end with the "tusk" at the end of the driveway. Pure gold! The real tusk looks amazing. As always, very well-done and thank you for taking us along through the process.

I have polished mammoth tusk a few times for jewelry and it is so beautiful. Amazing work!

Yes many thank you for taking the time to share your experience much appreciated With love and respect Bill W.

I was grinning throughout the whole reveal, but I completely lost it when her car came to a halt! I also had a chuckle from a chainsaw bit. You and your whole crew have a great sense of humor!

Yes! I didn’t know these were able to be purchased by an average person. I just thought there weren’t many around and they all went to museums. (so much for thinking) Speaking of museums, you really brought a museum quality finish to that. Excellent job!

Yes! Very cool to step away from wood & do a different medium. Stay well Cam

Not the first video I've seen on your channel, but the second. Your attention to detail is inspiring to say the least. Watching you replace a plug in that tabletop because you knew that you could do it better...and DID - It's a lesson I've had to learn over and over again. So, watching you take this project slow and making sure you understand each step in the process before doing it and the attention you paid to every detail really paid off in the end. Love the sense of humor. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos.

I've collected museum quality marine shells and a few fossils for over 40 years, I completely understand your passion for this. I've eaten sea cucumber meat, it tastes like razor clams and rattlesnake, it tastes like chicken, go figure.

How could you not love this... just wrapping your mind around the history of what this tusk represents is the coolest thing ever and it even looks cool to boot. I don't know if it's my childhood obsession with dinosaurs but to have your very own fossil is tops in my book. Would make the perfect centerpiece to any man cave!

YES! I would have a fossil tusk in my house. Amazing process of waiting while the tusk lost moisture. I always learn something new with your videos. Thank you for explaining each step so well. Susie

Your sense of humor keeps me coming back, I am not a woodworker at all but I love watching you work. Keep it up and keep being true to yourself!

I cant fathom why anyone wouldn't want a mammoth tusk of their own, it freaking awesome 👏

Joe was so confident in the welds; he didn't even bother to look at you when you were weight/strength testing the metal work lol.

Since I have baleen in my livingroom and lived in Alaska 38 years I am 100% with you.

Yes, I would absolutely have a tusk in my house and yours is extraordinary. Very well done! And thanks for the laughs in the journey to completing it!

Yes! "so you did spend money on this!" LOL I love it. I get this comment all the time from my wife.

I am a classicist and I love fossils and artifacts of all kinds, and this is a gorgeous piece. I'm with you on not understanding how someone could be *not* excited about this. I also happen to think you and your wife are clearly on the same wavelength when it comes to humor and that's always delightful. Also she supports you and you support her, so screw people who judge your relationship without knowing what they're talking about.

Yes, absolutely to having one. I like your channel because i'm a fan of the materials (woods/metals) and how artisans bring them out. The idea of a natural, ancient fossil like that, even re-finished, would make my living room so interesting. I'd find myself staring at it thinking about how it belonged to a living creature so long ago

I love fossils, rocks, arrowheads, any old thing I can find, and would absolutely make a place inside my home for SOMETHING like this!

I love how she stops the car when she sees that you put it out front. Priceless.

Yes, I would definitely display a restored tusk in my home. The amount of patience in this project is extraordinary. Well done, sir.

Yes, most definitely, to go along with my wart hog and walrus tusk. Thanks for sharing the other photos of tusk, very impressive.

No, I don't have a tusk. However, I absolutely lost it to the last shot of your wife halting in her tracks in the driveway.😂😂

Yes, i loved how you kept the mock tusk from us until the end. It was terribly awesome

I rarely comment. I am not a woodworker, I'm a musician and painter; however, your work and discipline are impressive, and it has inspired me to pursue my woodworking skills. I admire your patience and dedication to the craft. Cheers mate, and thank you, please keep it up. Absolutely stellar.

yes for me as long as blacktail restored it.honestly im glad to see some one restore something like this that can never really be replaced......priceless

I can appreciate your wife's descriptors my friend because your have some considerable cojones for even attempting a project of this magnitude. Congrats!

Yes, I think regardless of aesthetics, the fact that it's an ancient piece of history makes it one of the coolest things I could imagine displaying in my home. I have a lot of geodes I've collected/cut and polished and I love having those sprinkled around my house.

Yes, I was super skeptical about you doing a restoration on this tusk thinking it'd be filled completely with epoxy and it'd look waxy and fake. but I got to say I am thoroughly impressed. I like the simplistic mount and the fact that it actually looks restored not ruined. Bravo!

Yes to having a fossil in my house. I loved your wife’s reaction to the mammoth tusk and your pranks. The restoration on the tusks came out wonderfully.

yes. This thing looks awesome I absolutely love it. I am loving the crazy projects you have been doing recently.

Truly stunning I can’t believe she wasn’t excited to have a fossil from such an amazing animal that we will never ever see is truly unreal I would love to even touch it.

I would **love** to have something like this in my house. I'm a big fan of what people call "Vulture Culture." I love bones and fossils, and a massive mammoth tusk would be right up my alley. Amazing work, as always!

I showed this to my niece who is taking Anthropology and she fell in love. I laughed when she asked my to do one for her. Thanks for the video's you put out.

On whether I would have a mammoth tusk or not? I wouldn't. Two reasons: I would just be too worried about it getting ruined, and something about the tip being broken up bothers me. (Don't get me wrong, sanding it to a point would bother me more). If I could have an epoxy or resin tusk that had the end in tact, I would love it. The colors are gorgeous, and the history is amazing. It's quite a statement, and I wouldn't have to ruin one of these gorgeous marvels to achieve the look I want. That being said, I would be thrilled if a friend showed me this. What a piece of history lovingly restored. You did an excellent job, and I love the end result here! But personal preference blah blah blah. PS - Scott is so much fun. Hope he enjoyed his vacation.

That hand chamfer is unreal, what a talent

I love it. It's not as though you went out an killed an elephant to make this piece. It was in the ground for thousands of years and I think you do the animal a great service by continuing it's legacy for years to come! Great work!

I ALWAYS watch your videos all the way through as I do on everything i watch. I absolutely love the Tusk a awesome piece of real Art.

I have a couple of artist friends who owned 2 mammoth or mastodon tusks. One was in pieces, but the other one was intact and not stabilized. The one in pieces they used to do scrimshaw. I got addicted to wanting just one more piece. I have a hand carved whale tail. Also a 2 inch piece of the tusk with a beautiful scrimshaw of a whale jumping straight up out of the ocean. Each artist apologized to me about the tiny cracks that showed. This was done over twenty years ago so I don’t know if anyone had come up with the technology to totally hide the cracks, but I love them, it shows its age. I wear each of the pieces as necklaces. It is quite the conversation starter after someone compliments them, I say that it’s about at least 10,000 years old. I usually get out the picture I have of me standing by the intact tusk which is way bigger than me. I’m in awe about how big and strong those animals were. They had two of those things sticking out of their skull. They fought with them and moved them anytime they moved their head. Just their neck muscles must have been huge and strong. And who ever thought up the idea to hunt them and talked a bunch of their friends into hunting them - wow. Those men lived hard. BTW I once ate rattlesnake, it was very good.

Honestly with your attention to detail and love of your work, I'm not surprised you nailed yet another project

as a custom knifemaker, i've used a lot of elephant ivory (all legal stuff) and i love the smell of fresh cut ivory. the best tip i ever got was don't get it hot working it. beautiful tusk you have and a great job finishing it.

YES, YES, YES, I just found your channel, have only watched a few of your vids so far. You are amazing! Thank You for sharing your knowledge. Keep up the FANTASTIC and TRUELY WONDERFUL WORK!

I can't stop laughing ... Anderson's. Be careful buddy, she just might start pranking your dinners 😅 they say laughter is the best medicine, so thanks for your sense of humor. I had no idea it was even possible to buy a mammoth tusk! My son would be in heaven with this!

Honestly, that tusk is amazing! Well done! Also, I know all too well what it's like to have someone that doesn't support you so I completely know how lucky I am to have a wife that supports me, even when she isn't thrilled about my choices. You're a lucky man!

I would totally have a tusk in my house! On another topic, I bet a lot of people think your wife is just negative about your projects, but I bet her decisive critical mindset is part of the reason you love her. My long term girlfriend and I both have building hobbies, I build house projects, boats, etc.. and she sews, dresses, upholstery, etc. We both trust each others opinions because we both give brutally honest feedback. It keeps me on my toes and doesn't let me come close to half assing a project!

appreciate all the high quality and the HIGH QUALITY craftsman excellent all round

Thanks for sharing your unique mammoth tusk project. I love the prank you played on your wife. I appreciate your attention to detail and sense of humour. My 5 year old daughter and I enjoy watching all your videos and we both are fascinated with each project you take on. Thanks again for sharing your passion online. We are very fortunate to have discovered you online and admire your conscientious efforts. Looking forward to the next project. Much appreciation…Michael and Avalynn ❤

Keep the variety coming! The fact that you’re exploring different materials and executing them beautifully is pretty extraordinary.

Yes. She’s a great wife and that, “not die on this hill” statement is something I use with my wife. Another useful line is, “I’m not stepping on that landmine”. Great work and I love that you always bring something new to the table.

I think you did a fantastic job restoring this!

Hell Yeah! had me smiling, then laughing, then wiping the tears…and your comedic sidekick, er cameraman is worth his weight in gold your wife is very diplomatic

I'm shocked that your wife wasn't into it! thing is cool as hell. I love how well it polished up.

I’m a woodworker, discovered I love it a few years ago and dove head first into it. I’ve always loved dinosaurs and history like this. I would LOVE to have a piece of history like this in my house, it’s AMAZING and definitely a statement piece!!

YES! Thank you for sharing this restoration!

That was a mammoth task to finish. Nice job cam.

Absolutely! I actually am a Florida fossil diver who has found & mounted multiple tusks & multitudes of other fossils I’ve found during my 40 + years of diving. I admire your commitment to doing everything you could to enhance the natural beauty that is still there after so many eons. Great job my brother! I enjoyed your video immensely! 👏🏼🤩❤️

A lot of work to restore that mammoth tusk, but the result is commensurate with the work done... and the incredible patience. Also, Elana's presence is so wonderful, she should appear more often in your videos. All the best from Romania and keep it up.

Yes. That Tusk is truly unique. Great Job.

I would totally have it in my house, but only if it were mounted in a way that it was in the same orientation as it would be on the mammoth. I'm sure it wouldn't be perfectly accurate as there's a lot of decay on either end but when you and scott were starting to position it in the drill I got so much enjoyment out of just imagining how truly enormous that beast would have been.

Yes. I love how much you're enjoying this. What an incredible project. I'm a major animal lover and would be horrified if this was from an elephant or rhino, but since these guys are extinct, no-one died for you to have this. And it's a great piece to have. I love that you're giving it so much love. And ... your cat is beautiful.

I can’t believe someone wouldn’t be excited about having a mammoth tusk?! 😟 especially after your finishing work it looks stunning✨

I would have to have it in my radio shack, because I agreed early on that there would be no fins, fur, or antlers inside the house, on the wall or otherwise. I love the end result, and I thank you for sharing the project. I just recently found your channel and I love it. I love working with my hands and any medium, such a sense of satisfaction.

The Scott and Cam bromance has been developing so elegantly. Didn't know I needed this but am all for it. Great addition to the channel.

Yes - Cam, your channel is absolutely AMAZING! You’re a down to earth kind of person and you are highly skilled! Don’t mind anyone that tells you you’re not something because of their misguided opinions!

Aarons a great guy. Glad you guys smoothed things over👊

Yes, we'd love to have a beautiful tusk in our home. Nice job!

Yes, I would have this mammoth tusk in my house. Cam you have raised the bar yet again. You are truly are an artist that is willing to work way outside of your comfort zone to try and learn new things. You and your camera man Scott are a great team and make these awesome videos. I love the back and forth banter and commentary. I look forward to your videos and hope to learn more about woodworking and the process of making such fine pieces. When I retire in a a couple of years, I plan on doing wood working full time and hope to be able to create nice pieces to pass to my children and grandchildren. Take care and keep pushing the artistic envelope.

Yes, I would love to have a mammoth tusk in my house. I have waited months for this and it looks absolutely amazing! Keep up the great work!

Thats static shot of you walking down to the tusk really adds a lot. Another really well crafted video for another really interesting project!

Yes, I loved this project!

Yes ! Enjoyable as usual - the ending with your wife seeing the fake is perfect. I appreciate your efforts to ensure that magnificent object was afforded every opportunity to survive and thrive, the mounting was an excellent choice. It escapes me how anyone could fail to be awed by something that lived 20,000 years ago, I'm sure you'll derive much pleasure from its presence. Well done.

Absolute crazy, never ever would I imagine there be a community that does this type of work. Even less expected there to be so many tusks in such great condition. I love wood working, it was my favorite class in school and well kinda almost regret that I didn't go down some wood working path :)

Yes I would have an mammoth tusk in house. As long as it was picked up off the Earth as a tusk. And not taken from a skull. We appreciate all the good projects you bring .

I have a large pendant that I had custom made from Alaskan mastodon tusk!! Love the stuff. Answer is….hell yes!!!

Yes, this type of restoration is going on my bucket list. Very thankful to have found your page. Can't wait for more content to help drive ideas.

I love it! I'm also into mammoth tusks, still trying to find a good one that I like and can afford. It looks amazing. Some people just don't understand this stuff, but your restoring a piece of our world history and in restoring it, you are preserving our world history! Thanks for doing that. Love your videos your the best you've taught me a LOT.

Just found your sites and have watched a couple of your jobs. It's impressive how your work actually combines the work of a craftsman with the work of an artist. (And I love your self-deprecating humor!) But this mammoth tusk has got me really involved with the process. When drilling the mounting hole, I actually thought, for the long-time integrity of the piece as a whole, I would not have chosen to drill a hole in the tusk at all but would have figured out a different way of mounting the tusk without jeopardizing the life of the tusk. You have to remember that the top of the tusk, after being mounted, makes a great place for the young kids to swing on. And when drilling the hole, using the fossilized bone "dust" would make for a great filler, especially for matching color-----may have wanted to drill that hole in the very beginning, to utilize that dust? I think this piece is one that an expert in the field of fossils would love. Thanks for posting!

Hell yes i would have one in my house. The finish and the way it was mounted looks amazing.

Yes, yes, a thousand times YES! It could only be better if you had a story like " I scraped it out of the permafrost myself with a plastic spoon and a rusty putty knife". Loved the color and the finish! Thank you for sharing everything you do, thank you for including Scott. And I love your sense of humor!

I wouldn't have thought that tusk would come up so nice....Excellent work on both the finish and the mounting !!

Yes, looks amazing

This was a really neat restoration. The tusk is beautiful. And such a neat piece of prehistoric history.