Bone Knife

peter nap

peter nap

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I hadn't done anything stupid for the last day or so, so I went back to my what will fool a metal detector project. The big ugly thing is a Kubaton made from Corian.
The little ugly thing is a knife made from Wally World Bone. When there was about 1/8" left to grind I scorched it with a propane torch. This is supposed to harden it some according to the Eskimo's. When the grind was finished, I warmed it with a heat gun and stuck it in some 90 minute epoxy that had been thinned a lot. I waited until the epoxy started to set and pulled it out and wiped it down with acetone. Next day I sanded it and buffed it. I sharpened it with a crock stick and it shaves hair. I don't want to guess how long it will hold an edge and I guess I won't find out. The first person who saw it, wanted it so the trading began!:D
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My wife now wants a set of 8 butter knives made out of Bone...shouldn't have let her see it!:grumpy:
 
I love it! What kind of bone did you use? The only ones I ever see in Wally World are those big cow legs with hunks of smoked meat all over.
 
That's it Stu. Give it to the dog for a couple of days. That gets the hunks of meat off. The bone is already dried and smoked so all you need to do is saw it and grind it flat either on one side or two! You can ger a s**tload of handles and scales for 10 bucks.
Keep this quiet though. If GW finds out we can make knives that the detectors can't pick up from cow bones, he will have serial numbers on em!:grumpy:
 
When i give my dogs bones to clean, they eat all of it, they are Siberian Huskies :( so i dont ever get any clean like that, i have to go to the Pet Mart store and get the cleaned and bleached ones from there, but usually the really good ones are only about 4 inches long.
 
If you don't have a dog, or if you have Terrys problem. You can either boil the bone, to get the meat off, or put it out by an active ant hill. They will strip it clean.:eek:
 
Great looking Knife Peter...

You can also go find a old cow pasture and get permission to walk around it and you can usually find allot of the bones already dried and cleaned that you can cut up and make these from.
Bruce
 
That's cool Peter, Do some slash tests on some hanging meats to see how it would hold up for a throat slash.

Mark
 
Originally posted by peter nap
Keep this quiet though. If GW finds out we can make knives that the detectors can't pick up from cow bones, he will have serial numbers on em!:grumpy:
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Hey, Peter!!!

Looking at that has given me a kind of interesting idea for an "Ultra Primitive" folder! I'm thinking bone for the blade, and maybe Cocobolo for the handle/frame. I could use Bodark or Ironwood for the pivot pin!! Of course, it's an Airport's nightmare...a completely non-metallic knife... :eek:

When bones are outlawed, only Outlaws will have bones!!! Now THERE'S a disturbing thought...on SO many levels.
 
Thanks everyone. PM, I use acetone, Mark, I'll have to try it on the next one. I showed it to one of the locals and he traded a cap and ball revolver for it.Kalindras, that's pretty funny. I do like the idea about the folder though...if I could only get the hang of knapping flint.
 
Terry,you have a Husky I have a pitbull try to save some bone with those,check out my avatar,that is him.
All jokes aside would they be good for scrimshawing on ?:)
 
Nathan, i have played a little with scrimshawing on the pieces i got from pet mart, and it worked pretty good. The bones i get from them are nice and smoothed, hollow, thick, bleached white, about 4 or 5 inches long, and pretty straight. They have longer ones but usually they are crooked or odd shaped. I cant draw worth a darn so i quit trying to scrimshaw. I had made a couple of handles for rapiers from them, just sanded them round with sandpaper and plished with sandpaper and a dremel tool, just go slow with the dremel or you will burn the bone, and wear a good respirator. I hear bone dust is a killer on the lungs, and do it where you have good ventilation. :)
 
Peter that's pretty cool. Bone knives are probably nothing new though, Ice Age people apparently made all sorts of tools out of bone and antler, and who knows they may have discovered some really intense heat treating for bone and wood! It's good to see what you can do with unlikely materials, just like you do with found stuff. Sometimes the medium suggests its form, and those are the days it's most fun to be a maker. :cool: Thanks for sharing this inspiration! Keep it up!

Dave
 
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