Etched emu eggs
About six years ago, a friend gave me some glass etching cream as a Christmas gift. I soon bought other etching tools, including an electric drill. The following Easter, there was an article in the local paper about a couple who were doing filigree carving on eggs with an air drill. I went to the local library and found some books on egg decoration and tried it myself. I found that filigree work couldn’t be done with a Dremel tool due to the vibrations given off by the low speed of the drill. I had also read that if you scratch a brown chicken egg, you will see white underneath. For the first year, chicken eggs were the only eggs I worked with. I went from chicken eggs until I discovered Emu, Rhea, and Ostrich eggs. It’s been six years now, I finally got an air drill and I carve everything from eggs, glass, wood, antlers to stone. Emu eggs remain my favorite material to work with.
