A bone buckle.

[HHazeldean]

That sure must've taken some patience! Stunning

 

[ozzy1977]

Cracking job

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Inspirational stuff, thanks for sharing.

 

[titanius anglesmith]

Hi all,
Fishfish that is a lovely bit of bone carving. I realy like that. Thanks for showing.
Regards Chris.

 

[fishfish]

Luverly work Mr Fish,

I really like that, keep meaning to have a play with bone as I fancy making a Hnefatafl for myself. (I've a resin one with a cloth board which is great for taking camping). The buckle just loos so right and tactile, I really want to pick it up.

inspirational stuff as ever sir!

GB.

like this in Baltic amber and walrus....mmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Hemlock-]

That's spectacular!

 

[Goatboy]

like this in Baltic amber and walrus....mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Nice board and pieces that! I really should give it a go. Could keep it simple to begin with which would also keep it smaller and lighter to carry as as most of my kit is old-school and not light! (I do prefer natural materials to use though so my fault!)

Is the board yours or did you fine it on the net? Great game and very addictive - I prefer it to chess but not many folks play. (Yet!)

Cheers and beautiful work again.

GB.

 

[fishfish]

a pic from the net,i have been thinking of making a set for a while,i started to make a chess set but its a lot of work.


hand carved chess pieces by fishfish_01, on Flickr


hand carved chess pieces by fishfish_01, on Flickr


hand carved chess pieces by fishfish_01, on Flickr

 

[Elen Sentier]

Very nice Just a thought, how about a brass tongue instead?

 

[THOaken]

Nice buckle, Fishfish. Looks like precision work.

 

[tombear]

Cool! Better not show them the wife as she has a thing for the Lewis chessmen and keeps ssuggesting I try and copy them, as if it doesn't take vast amounts of skill etc! I made a mistake of showing her pics of the "Charlemagne" chess set which didn't help.

http://history.chess.free.fr/charlemagne.htm

atb

Tom

ps just started sawing up the first dog bone, doing it slowly by hand and it don't smell so bad.

 

[fishfish]

hows it going tom? made somik yet?

 

[tombear]

So far just a really bad smell. I've taken the ends off of the cartoon dinosaur type bone and split it so I can see where the fibrous bits are. Tomorrow I'll hook the Hoover up to the belt sander and gentle flatten the bits I select to make the knife scales. I'll save all the other bits to make awls, needles and what have you, there should be enough for a couple of buckles as well.

atb

Tom

 

[tombear]

This morning I gave up on the bone saw for the roughing out and slapped a new fine toothed blade on the Makita and sliced the 2 bones up into managable pieces wearing a mask and with the family ordered out of the shed.

ATB

Tom

 

[fishfish]

great material aint it?!

 

[tombear]

I think I'll reserve judgement until I have made something half decent, I may yet make a pigs ear and want to blame the materials!

Atb

Tom

 

[MarvTommo]

Looks great. Nice workmanship


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[tombear]

When id ground off the porous bits of the bone shaped bone it was not wide enough for the scales so i had to use the thick end piece.

Anyroad, I've taken it as far as I can with the power saw and belt sander so the rest will be done with hand tools/ sand paper.

Did a few pins/needles with the trimmings, a bit rough but Ive plenty to practice on.

ATb

Tom

 

[fishfish]

good work mate!

 

[tombear]

Cheers! It's a interesting material. I finished shaping the skills and rather than leave well alone decided to copy some of the decoration on the excavated knife. The scales felt a bit slippy without some cross hatching anyway. I think I will try to do some ring and dots. The lines are a bit skew whiff but its all good experiance/learning.