bone handle material??

You beat me to it Ray! :)

I was going to say:
You might be able to get around all the hassles, by finding a university, museum, or maybe even a "taxidermist", who have the beetles, and tell them you are doing research on cleaning, preserving and dying bone for knife handles and craft objects. They might even do it for free, or just charge you a small fee.
 
Tai Goo said:
You beat me to it Ray! :)

I was going to say:
You might be able to get around all the hassles, by finding a university, museum, or maybe even a "taxidermist", who have the beetles, and tell them you are doing research on cleaning, preserving and dying bone for knife handles and craft objects. They might even do it for free, or just charge you a small fee.
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I'm sure I found several places years ago that sell these fine bugs. You can start your own herd. :D
 
hevy ev's said:
after soaking all the meat off two weeks probably boil them with laundry detergentfor ten to twenty minute and the spray them with peroxide as soon as the come out while they are still hot
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I am a taxidermist and this is what I suggest you do
 
hevy ev's said:
I am a taxidermist and this is what I suggest you do
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This and the other methods will work. I've used most of them. However, for the "best" results in cleaning and preserving, bugs and natural drying are the "best" way to go. This may not always be convenient to do,… so the other alternatives may be a more "practical" choice depending on the circumstances.
 
Tai Goo said:
This and the other methods will work. I've used most of them. However, for the "best" results in cleaning and preserving, bugs and natural drying are the "best" way to go. This may not always be convenient to do,… so the other alternatives may be a more practical choice depending on the circumstances.
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your the man I won't argue with you but I have never seen ants get bone as clean as man but I see what you are saying about naturally oils. What I suggested is the cleanest most effective way we have found. I have had to redo countless skulls that rednecks put in an ant bed but thats just the outside cutting into it could be another story;)
 
Here’s a piece I did a good while back, bug cleaned and air dried lamb bone, died with wild, natural, hand picked cochineal die. The blade is meteoritic hand forged air hardening pattern welded steel. Inlays of rat's teeth and cleaved coinage. The inlays are done with natural pinon pine rosin mixed with Alaskan moose dung ,…cutler’s rosin. The wrappings are homemade AZ “century plant” fiber cordage with cochineal die.

You don’t get that look, feel and HADO any other way! :)
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All three planes on the blade "flats", or audience sides, are hand forged hollow...
 
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I guess it depends on what look you're after, what material you can source and what gumption you have. For instance, I wasn't after the bleached white look, thus the tsp, bleach and peroxide approaches weren't that important to me. In fact, the more natural the better for me. When I butchered one of my cows I placed the remains in one of my compost piles. (My piles were rather large in that they were built with the front end loader on my tractor with the cows' manure and biomass from the farm and gardens.) Several months later the bones were great: "clean," stained and about as natural looking as you could get. And, they were calved and grown from the grasses and garden culls right from my farm. For me, that's cool! Unfortunately I don't have anymore of those bones, as someone obsconded with them.

I look forward to seeing what you do!
 
Tai, you give a whole new meaning to "full of sh_t." Here I'm talking about using manue to clean bone for a knife handle while you just went and used manure for a knife handle. Too much dude. Life's a trip, and you are one of her colorful tripsters for sure!
 
Phil, it wasn't just any moose $hit. Virgil England sent it to me from his front yard in Anchorage. LOL :D

They kind of looked like Hershey's Kisses!

Made lots of money off it!

True story...
 
Tai Goo said:
Here’s a piece I did a good while back, bug cleaned and air dried lamb bone, died with wild, natural, hand picked cochineal die. The blade is meteoritic hand forged air hardening pattern welded steel. Inlays of rat's teeth and cleaved coinage. The inlays are done with natural pinon pine rosin mixed with Alaskan moose dung ,…cutler’s rosin. The wrappings are homemade AZ “century plant” fiber cordage with cochineal die.

You don’t get that look, feel and HADO any other way! :)
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All three planes on the blade "flats", or audience sides, are hand forged hollow...
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Tai, I sure hope you had this knife pasteurized before you sent if off. :D
 
wow...lots of activity while i was gone for this one....thanks fo ral lthe suggestions again...ryan


hey tai...correct me if i'm wrong wasn't the lamb bone from your dad's dinner too?....ryan:D
 
... think about it. What does the pinon pine use the rosin for?,... killing bugs, fungus and germs. :)

What lives in pine rosin?
 
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Listen to yourselves!

You sound like a bunch of city slickers and girly men...

You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

I’m out of here! LOL :D

I’ve got better things to do than try to educate this crowd. :D
 
Do you have to go through the same process for say a warthog tusk? I recently purchased one (actually two) and then I saw this post. I thought I could just cut, protect the ends, go slow so it dosen't heat up, and I'll be good. Do I have to boil it?
 
LOL :D

Here's a couple more ideas for you city slickers...

Get a tank full of piranhas, starve them a few days and put your bones in.

or... dry the bones with the meat on with a little salt and pepper, and gnaw the bone clean yourself.
 
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