whale Bone handles

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Has anyone used whale bone for knife handles? I ended up with a pile of sawn pieces from my grandfather's garage and they appear to be from a skull from a very large creature, I am pretty sure a whale as nothing else approaches that size. He had them since at least the 1950s. There are large areas of solid bone and other areas where the bone is porous.
 
I have rib bones that I have had stabilized. I haven't slab them out yet, but they will make nice handles. Like your's these suckers are old. My ivory dealer told me that the jaw bones are really dense and looks like ivory when polished out.
I live in the Old Whaling Capitol of the World.
 
Whale bone makes nice handle material.The old,dark stuff is amazing sometimes. Have it stabilized.
Stacy
 
If the bone is solid it makes great handles. I am a sculptor and my primary medium is fossilized whale bone. I buy about a ton of it a year.The bone I buy from St Lawrence Island and the whales were killed by Siberian Yupik hunters centuries ago. The laws regulating its trade are very complicated and i do not sell any of my art work from whale bone outside the state of Alaska.
Check out this webcam. http://live.wildlife.wavelit.net/451OK This was posted over in community a few weeks ago. It is from a watering hole in a game preserve in South Africa. There are some lions on tonight and it appears they killed a cape buffalo.
 
The some of the bones that I have were dragged up by the Scalloper's. Most of the time the captain of the ship make the crew throw them back because they stick so bad.:barf:
 
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