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Bone nuts and bridges

any one else tried making nuts and bridges out of beef bone ? I have found that it works great! it is way more resilient than wood or plastic for this application and cheap too if you get a shin bone at the super market you can get a ton of nuts out of it , just my thought s figured I would share

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Comment by Dan Tomkinson on July 26, 2010 at 1:57pm: That thing is awesome !!! Great work guy !!!

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on July 26, 2010 at 12:03am: I love that smell LOL

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on July 26, 2010 at 12:02am: Very nice ! great Idea by the way

Comment by Mike Willmouth on July 25, 2010 at 9:41pm: I bought a bone at a pet store and cut it to length. BUT when you start sanding it down it smells like I'm in the dentist office -- which I don't like the smell of a dentist's drill on teeth. The question is, after the bone is shaped is there something I should use to seal it (inside and out)?

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on January 7, 2010 at 7:56pm: I use my band saw to cut the bone then my dremel to shape it you can use a coping saw with a hack saw blade to cut it if you dont have a band saw

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on January 7, 2010 at 7:54pm: I carved this little scull guy as a decoration ,my wife says its creepy

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on January 5, 2010 at 1:06pm: OH ya and I whiten it with denture cleaner

Comment by Dan Tomkinson on January 5, 2010 at 1:05pm: Ok as far as the smell goes it smells like your making soup LOL ! Really the worst part is it makes you hungry for moms home made broth . and it takes about an hour or two to cook the marrow out of it then you clean it up in the sink I use a long handles spoon to dig the cooked marrow out of the bone ,If you have a dog he will love you for it , my cat sure did, then I dried it by the wood stove but you can bake it on low in the oven to do the samre once its dry I cut it up on the band saw and grind it to shape with my bench sander and dremel i posted a pic on my blog check it out , when used for bridges it gives nice ringing tone to your build

Comment by Lost Tone on January 5, 2010 at 12:53pm: I'd love to hear more about how you process the bone etc.
I've heard that bone from butchers and pet shops needs to be boiled for many hours to get the fat out. I read somewhere that boiling outdoors is advised, due to the smell, and that a bit of caustic soda helps to whiten the bone.
Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers.