Dying bone

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anyone dying there own bone slabs.
if share your knowledge with us
vern:cool:
 
try RIT dye. It's available in many colors. I havn't done it since the 80's but it works well. I bought in the laundry detergent section of a super market. I do remember having light brown hands (not my natural color)for quite a while because I put my rubber gloves on after I poked around in the stuff. It's a powder you can mix as you need.

Grinding bone makes me gag so I don't use it anymore.


Now that I think about....that last line don't sound so good. (lol)
 
Start with fresh bone...go to a local butcher and ask for a shin bone.

Get Ritz dye. For red, try to find "cardinal red". Simmer for 3-4 hours, DO NOT BOIL! (If you allow it to boil the bone will crack.) Turn the burner off and let it sit overnight. The next day, simmer again for 2-3 hours. Liberally dip the bone in a mixture of 2/3 gasoline, 1/3 Automatic Transmission Fluid, (Type F, Type A, Mercon, Mercon V, doesn't matter.) Layer on newspaper and let sit for about 3 weeks.

This is how Clyde Fischer did it. He passed it along to me at the Hammer In at Old Washington in the spring of 2001.

Craig
 
I don't have any first hand knowledge of this, but I slept in a holiday inn a couple times and saw a demo on it. Tommy McNabb and Travis Daniel both said they use an old crockpot/slowcooker to do theirs in. You can make a rack so that you can fit more bone in at a time and you don't have to watch it as close as on the stovetop.

Even a brand new crockpot only costs 10-20 bucks on sale, probably worth picking up. I don't think I'd use it for food, but there's other stuff you can use the same pot for, like pickeling nickelsilver.
 
Now I havn't tried this, but leather dye comes to mind, it will dye just about anything it comes in contact with and penetrates well.
 
According to what I was told by R.W. Wilson, soak it overnight in thinned leather dye. He claims complete penetration on dry bone. I would suggest trying it. That's about as easy as it gets, but I can't promise results, I have never had the need to try it myself.
 
I have recently started to jig and dye bone. I have gotten a lot of input from a friend of mine that has been dying bone for two or three years now. This is the way that I have found that works well for me.

I get my bone from the local Fleet farm. Its a chain of farm stores in the Wi Minn. area. The bone is packed with beef mixture or peanut butter for the dog, I let her have at it for a week or so.

I will then cut and shape and jig the bone real close to finished size. I do this as the dye will penetrate quicker with less material.

I soak the shaped, jigged bone in olive oil (my friend uses lemon oil and has used olive also) for a week or so until the bone looks translucent when held up to a light. This pre-soak seems to speed the dying process.

I then will soak the bone in leather OIL dye, until fully penetrated. This can take me a week in the oil dye. I have not used any heat up to this point but may try a crock pot soon.

I have a few pictures of my Jigged and dyed bone on my website.


Ken Erickson
 
ken erickson said:
I have recently started to jig and dye bone. I have gotten a lot of input from a friend of mine that has been dying bone for two or three years now. This is the way that I have found that works well for me.

I get my bone from the local Fleet farm. Its a chain of farm stores in the Wi Minn. area. The bone is packed with beef mixture or peanut butter for the dog, I let her have at it for a week or so.

I will then cut and shape and jig the bone real close to finished size. I do this as the dye will penetrate quicker with less material.

I soak the shaped, jigged bone in olive oil (my friend uses lemon oil and has used olive also) for a week or so until the bone looks translucent when held up to a light. This pre-soak seems to speed the dying process.

I then will soak the bone in leather OIL dye, until fully penetrated. This can take me a week in the oil dye. I have not used any heat up to this point but may try a crock pot soon.

I have a few pictures of my Jigged and dyed bone on my website.


Ken Erickson
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Very nice work, Ken.

Craig
 
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