Degreasing and using cow bone.

[Jake]

Howdy all,

 

Not sure if this is as much of a concern with carving for netsuke or small sculptures, but thought it might be useful for someone:

 

http://www.bearmeadow.com/build/materials/...bone-clean.html

 

Kinda involved process. How do you guys/gals prepare bone? Does anyone here use cow bone? Seems like a cheap readily available material, but I imagine the dimensions would be rather limiting. Was just wondering, as more exotic stuff to carve is hard to come by where I'm living right now.

 

Thanks in advance,

-Jake.

[Steve Ellsworth]

best process i know of is Petsmart

processed dog bones

nice dense clean white no grease ready to go no fuss no muss

enjoy

 

carven down rub em with linseed oil and after a while they look real good, i have done some combo pieces with walrus ivory carvings mounted in shadow box dog bone cabs other than the marrow grain on thewalrus its hard totell them apart

 

 

Howdy all,

 

Not sure if this is as much of a concern with carving for netsuke or small sculptures, but thought it might be useful for someone:

 

http://www.bearmeadow.com/build/materials/...bone-clean.html

 

Kinda involved process. How do you guys/gals prepare bone? Does anyone here use cow bone? Seems like a cheap readily available material, but I imagine the dimensions would be rather limiting. Was just wondering, as more exotic stuff to carve is hard to come by where I'm living right now.

 

Thanks in advance,

-Jake.