Wanted: Clean Bone with joint

[mountainm]

Not really mind what animal it came from as long as it's not brittle - it's for a primitive knife handle. Want the joint still on at least one end.

Anyone got anything? Have all sorts I could swap.

Thanks

Mike

 

[Dogoak]

Have a word with your local butcher?

 

[nephilim]

If I saw this 2 days ago, I would have offered you a lamb shoulder (no meat attached, but the bones are in good order)

 

[mountainm]

Have a word with your local butcher?

Also doing. But wondered if anyone had got anything already cleaned up and aged.

 

[Rabid]

My gran had a hip replacement

 

[John Fenna]

I have a supply of these bones - they are green and stained until you start sanding them!
They came with the marrow still in them and are "aging" in my woods, hung up out of harms way

 

[mountainm]

I have a supply of these bones - they are green and stained until you start sanding them!
They came with the marrow still in them and are "aging" in my woods, hung up out of harms way
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They're perfect, I'm making a rustic sheep sheer knife. I have lots of stuff to swap, after owt in particular? Buffalo Horn maybe?

 

[mountainm]

My gran had a hip replacement

She's probably rocking some titanium hardware now.

 

[John Fenna]

They're perfect, I'm making a rustic sheep sheer knife. I have lots of stuff to swap, after owt in particular? Buffalo Horn maybe?

PM me with your address and I will send you a couple over, though it will be a couple of days before I can gat to the woods to retrieve them
If you feel the need to pay for them just drop some coins in a charity box somewhere

 

[mountainm]

PM me with your address and I will send you a couple over, though it will be a couple of days before I can gat to the woods to retrieve them
If you feel the need to pay for them just drop some coins in a charity box somewhere

As always, you're a gent.

 

[John Fenna]

Well - my sewing machine has decided it wants to visit the nice repair man rather than sew through canvas and leather to make my new rucksack, so after packing up the machine I dashed into the woods and retrieved some bones. I can get my wife to post them tomorrow (and hopefully put my machine in for repair at the same time!) while I am at work ...

 

[mountainm]

Well - my sewing machine has decided it wants to visit the nice repair man rather than sew through canvas and leather to make my new rucksack, so after packing up the machine I dashed into the woods and retrieved some bones. I can get my wife to post them tomorrow (and hopefully put my machine in for repair at the same time!) while I am at work ...

Cheers John. Youngminds are £10's better off. Will also take the opportunity to plug the charity.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/

The meagre budget for childrens mental health has been cut dramatically in the past 5 years (by £50,000,000 - bankers bonuses btw came to about £7 billion in one year) to the point where vulnerable children are being put into care 100's of miles away from their parents where they are lonely and scared, or on adult wards and sometimes even prison cells. Parents then have to either give up work or make the long expensive trek to stay in touch with their kids.

This should not be happening in this day and age - if we spend money looking after the kids then we can prevent problems later on in life and save money - so it makes economical sense too.

 

[Dogoak]

Nice touch Mountainman :You_Rock_

 

[mountainm]

Nice touch Mountainman :You_Rock_

No John Rocks - it was his choice instead of a swap.

 

[Dogoak]

Well you both rock then!

 

[John Fenna]

His choice of charity though
It sounds like a good un too - I work at a care farm where we have participants of all ages from teens to even older than me and they have a variety of issues from learning disability to physical disability, exclusion issues, socialisation issues etc etc etc so I think that looking after the mental health of youngsters is a great area for more funding.

 

[John Fenna]

I am LIVID!
My wife took the two bits of bone to the Post Orifice today - and they were refused by the PO as "prohibited items" to whit "Animal
Remains"!
It seems I cannot post them to you after all
Sorry

 

[mountainm]

Never mind. Thanks for trying.

 

[John Fenna]

What bugs me is that if they had been already made into a knife they would have been OK!
Go figure....

 

[Mesquite]

Don't say that they're just bones, rather say that they're knife handles which will be the truth ; )