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JTknives

JTknives

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well stoped in are local leather work store thats close to my house to get some sheath leather. while i was looking at the leather a spoted a cow horn. i was like, hay you selling that horn. he says i have a ton of horn over here. o my hell, he has tons. water buffalow for 14 bucks each lots of antler. alagator skin, huge turtle shells, burl, mother of pearl and lots more. man i was blown away. its my new horny heven :)
 
Ah, a local leather store. Man, oh man, if the rest of us could only be so lucky! Great find.

Not that I have any use for cow horn yet, but growing up on a farm, I used to get the horn "sheaths" when any of the cows we had died. Also used to collect any shed antlers I'd come across in the woods.
 
Good find, very lucky. horn is one of my favorite handle materials.

M. Mcord, don't forget where the bones are either, the shine bone makes nice bone handles with a little work on the bandsaw.
 
JTknives said:
well stoped in are local leather work store thats close to my house to get some sheath leather. while i was looking at the leather a spoted a cow horn. i was like, hay you selling that horn. he says i have a ton of horn over here. o my hell, he has tons. water buffalow for 14 bucks each lots of antler. alagator skin, huge turtle shells, burl, mother of pearl and lots more. man i was blown away. its my new horny heven :)
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What store is it? I'm in Bountiful and am always looking for new stuff.

Paul
 
o my gosh i just memember seeing a large tortoise shell there for sale, at is about 1 1/2 feet wide and 2 1/2 feet long. would this be worth getting and whats a good price.
 
he does not have a web site. let me dig up his phone number. he might let me go and take a tone of pictures and post so you can see what he has. his store i between provo and springvill on the old hiway. maybe ill talk to him and see if i can be his online distributor and ill add a page to my site. he has a ton of buffalow horn but he says he cant get any more. if you want antler he says he can get it by the truck load. he loves knives and makes handles for blades he buys.
 
Will52100 said:
M. Mcord, don't forget where the bones are either, the shine bone makes nice bone handles with a little work on the bandsaw.
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Shouldn't be a problem. On our farm whenever a cow would die, he'd drag them to a certain area in the fields. Each large pasture had a dump site. So there are plenty of bones around. I've never worked with bone, but once I did polish up an atler shed into a leather boning stick. Man, oh man, did that stuff smell. Kinda turned me off to antler and bone. But I may pick some up and try it again.
 
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