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Last edited by Ron Kelley; 07-28-2021, 08:26 AM.Michigan Yooper
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It really takes some elbow grease to knap the stuff huh! Stubborn material for sure. From the looks of your success with it though it looks like youd rank up there with the guys who worked with it in the past. And that knife blade is another beauty too for sure. Hey isn’t deer bone fun to work with ? There’s so many tools you can make out of them. I’ve worked with deer moose beaver snapping turtle coyote woodchuck squirrel turkey goose and a few other species’s bones and I’ve found moose and coyote to be my favorites. I like using bones that I’ve found in the woods that’s been exposed to the elements just the right amount, a good “seasoned” bone that’s dried out just right but not brittle or weak and the marrow is gone. Green bone seems a bit too rubbery (for lack of a better way to describe it ) and doesn’t scrape as nice as a seasoned one does. And by scrape I mean when I work bone a lot of times I use either one of my knives or a flake ,depending on how primitive I feel like making my project ,to scrape or shave it down by holding the blade angled away from the cut.call me Jay, i live in R.I.-
Thanks Jay, When I finally got an angled edge on the rhyolite then I could snap off good sized flakes. That smooth edge is tough to work with. I stored the bones in open air indores for two years before working them. I have some big ant hills: like two feet tall. I like to put bones on the ant hills and let the ants clean them up. -
We have a lot of porcupine and they eat up the bone pretty fast.
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No porcupine down here, the mice and squirrels leave most of the bone I find alone, but antler is another story!call me Jay, i live in R.I.Comment
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