(up-dated 30/Mar./2016)
These are the grand-fathered, great white shark's teeth, Carolyn provided for her club. I most likely will never have the opportunity to work with great whites again, so I decided to experiment with them.
Drilling a great white shark's tooth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1qb90hcFcU
Tooth #1,(front and back)
Tooth #1, (front and back), drilled
The tooth was scored (in the dentin) with a chert reamer, for 42 seconds. The resulting depression allowed the drill to stay in place, instead of wandering. It was then drilled for an additional 3 minutes, 41 seconds until break-through occurred. Then, it was turned over and drilled for another 40 seconds until the hole was even from top to bottom. Length of tooth: 4.5cm. Width of tooth: 3.3cm. Total drilling time: 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Tooth # 2, (front and back)
Tooth #2, (front and back) drilled.
The tooth was not scored this time. Natural undulations in the tooth's structure allowed the drill to stay in place long enough to get started. There was very little dentin left on tooth #2 and the drill broke out after 5 minutes, 40 seconds. Therefore, it was decided to drill through the enamel. The tooth was 4.5cm long and 3.7cm wide. Total drilling time:. 6 minutes, 18 seconds
Tooth #3, (front and back) 
Tooth #3, (front and back) drilled.
Tooth #3 was filmed for U-tube. This tooth also had very little dentin so it was decided that it should be drilled through the enamel. It was reamed to create a depression. That took 15 seconds. Then, it was drilled for an additional 5 minutes, 25 seconds. the tooth was 4.5cm long and 3.7cm wide. Total drilling time: 5 minutes, 40 seconds
Tooth #4, (front and back)
Tooth #4, (front and back) drilled
Tooth #4 was drilled through the dentin. It was 4.7cm long and 3.7cm wide. It took 7minutes, 18 seconds to break through and an additional 30 second of reaming to finish the hole. Total drilling time: 7 minutes, 48 seconds
Tooth #5, (front and back)
Tooth #5, (front and back) drilled
Tooth #5 was drilled through the dentin. It was 5.1cm long and 3.9cm wide Total drilling time: 3minutes, 17 seconds
My U-tube video on drilling a tooth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1qb90hcFcU&feature=plcp
Burned, great white shark tooth specimens from Md 34 excavations. The first two
are from recent excavations and the last two are of the same tooth, uncovered by
Perino, in his 1955 excavations. It is currently curated at the Gilcrease
Institute, in Tulsa OK. The last picture compares one of the Md 34 specimens
with Caroline's Tooth #1.
These are the raw Crescent Quarry Burlington chert
micro-drills, before they were used, in the experiments.
These are pictures of the chert drill, used to drill
Tooth #1.
The chert drill, used for Tooth #2. 2
(Tooth #2's drill, was turned around and the opposite end was used to drill tooth #4)
The drill used for Tooth #3.
Close-up of Tooth #2's drilled hole. The photos of the chert drills
(other end used for tooth #2) were out of focus. #4, drilled.
The drill used for Tooth #5 
Next, the teeth had to be ground flatter then notched to replicate the original teeth, found in recent excavations.
Tooth #1: Grinding time = 2 minutes, 38 seconds.
Notching time = 3 minutes, 14 seconds. Add to that, the total drilling time of
4 minutes, 23 seconds, and that equals a total preparation time of:
10 minutes, 15 seconds
Tooth #2: Grinding
time = 3 minutes, 29 seconds. Notching time = 1 minute, 16 seconds. Add to that
the total drilling time of 6 minutes, 18 seconds, and that equals a total
preparation time of: 11
minutes, 3 seconds
Tooth #3: Grinding time = 5 minutes, 30 seconds.
Notching time = 58 seconds. Add to that the total drilling time of 5 minutes, 40
seconds, and that equals a total preparation time of:
12 minutes, 8 seconds
Tooth #4: Grinding time = 6 minutes, 44 seconds.
Notching time = 1 minute, 40 seconds. Add to that the total drilling time of 7
minutes, 48 seconds, and that equals a total preparation time of:
16
minutes, 2 seconds
Tooth #5: Grinding time = 5 minutes, 6 seconds. Notching time = 1 minute, 23
seconds. Add to that the total drilling time of 3 minutes, 17 seconds and that
equals a total preparation time of:
9 minutes, 46 seconds
Mortising the walnut handle with an antler chisel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0qvZKCcUA
Drilling the hole in the handle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQXxBcbFaM
Gluing in the first great white shark's tooth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxBtENkotk
Fastening the first chert tooth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9TRlNgRSI
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