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wolfsire:

--- Quote from: El Destructo on June 21, 2008, 01:51:12 am ---next time you need bone......you just email me......I live in Texas Cattle Country..........I can most likely get all you want form the Slaughterhouses....

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Thanks, Ill keep that in mind.

stickbender:

     Wolfsire;
     If you want good clean bone, just go to petsmart, or any pet store.  you can get nice clean, white, non smelling bones, they're a lot cheaper than $30.00!  I used to make jewelry out of it.  It is nice material to work with.    I used to buy soup bones, and make soup, and then put the bones in an ant mound, and let them do work of getting out any of the remaining tendons, etc.  Usually not much left for them, though.  I would let them sit in the sun for awhile, till I learned that hydrogen peroxide worked pretty well too.  Any way, Clean them up, and you can bleach them, too.  Yeah, wear a mask, and eye protection.  It polishes up very nicely.  If you have a hand piece, or a dremel you can polish it with white polishing compound.  You can get it at jewelry supply stores, or go on line for it.  Just sand the bone down, to a nice smoothe finish, and then use the compound on a felt wheel, and then finish with a clean cloth wheel to buff it.  I used to be a Dental Lab Tech, so I used my hand piece to work with it.  It really does take a nice shine.  Yeah, you can pretty much toss the knuckles.  Maybe toss them at political gathering......But they would probably figure that if you could afford to throw away soup bones, then you can afford more taxes......

Enjoy.                                             
                                                                                Stick Bender

stickbender:
  Oops forgot to say that like the others said, you can use dead cow bones also.  I used to get a lot of them from a dairy.  When one their cows died, they would haul it out in the pasture, and let buzzards enjoy.  I would get those that were a couple of years old.  I would then boil and bleach them to kill any remaining baddies, that might still be living in there. Saw the ends off,and then stock pile them, till I needed them for something.  The front leg shanks, are nice also.  A bit thicker, but shorter.  I have made arrow heads out of them.  If I knew how to use this #$#@*&%!!computer, I would post a picture of one.  Anyway, I thought I would add this, and again, bone is really a neat medium to work with.

                                                                                           Stick Bender

wolfsire:
I made some yummy albondigas soup from the stock this week.  No rice in the meatballs but equl parts beef, pork and lamb.

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