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swamp monkey:
Bone fish hooks require patience, and sometimes blood.  Yours in fact.  Or mine to be specific.  It depends on who makes them.  My first bone fish hook was made with a flint chip and some sand stone chunks.  I donated blood on three separate occasions. The flint cut my knuckle, the sand stone abraded my thumb and the hook was jabbed into the hand holding the sandstone.   My second one was less messy.  I then made couple with more modern tools and have to confess I am proudest of the primitive ones but am certain archaic natives would opt for a dremel if they had access to one. 
Below is a diagram of how a bone fish hook can come from a deer toe bone.  I have used some of my bone hooks with limb lines.  Half broke.  Each hook takes more than an hour each to craft and that is just the crude stuff.  Prettying things up takes more time.  The hooks I have seen in archeological displays are works of art.  Surely they cannot all be that pretty. 
The photo below is of four bone hooks and a split toe bone is an example of unsanded hooks.  I found a hacksaw cut the toe bone in half nicely and you can tell by the kerf marks that is what I did.  I did not have the forethought to photograph the bones I divided with a flint chip.   Bleeding kinda does that to your sensibility.  ;D
These hooks sure make me appreciate metal hooks. 

jamie:
very cool

Sparrow:
 Nice. Thanks !  '  Frank

Cacatch:

--- Quote from: swamp monkey on December 20, 2010, 10:23:59 pm ---Bone fish hooks require patience, and sometimes blood.  Yours in fact.  Or mine to be specific.  It depends on who makes them. 
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Your work is awesome, and that part right there is hilarious, just cause of the way you said it, and because I'm sure it's true!  :D  Thanks for sharing your method too. I had wondered how these were made.

CP

Bill Skinner:
Have you actually tried catching a fish with your toe bone hook?  They always broke when I caught a fish.  I tried to pick the fish up out of the water, like you do with a steel hook.  I have since found out they were probably used on a handline and probably used with a dip net.  You eased the fish in close, not fighting it, and when it was close enough, scoop it up with a dipnet.  Or you could ease it up to the bank and slide it out of the water.  I have had better luck making tougher hooks with raw legbones.  Bill

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