Broke My Leg

Yup! I broke it!

I need to put a little background in here: I have several razors here at the Boars Nest to clean up and hone or just hone for some of the guys but I always let those that I do any work for know that I don't do so if I'm;
Stressed
Tired
Ill

Well the workplace left me Stressed and Tired but I thought that I'd head out to my little 'shop' in my one car garage and work on an experimental project just to unwind and learn something.

Thin 'IT' happened I broke my leg! I'd just ran my project through my table say and had set the center piece down and when I went to pick up the end pieces I bumped the center piece and it dropped to the cement floor and I broke my leg! Damn It! Oh well it was an experiment :shrug:

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Well I'd hoped to make a set of scales out of the bovine leg but looks like I should have lots to make wedges out of or see how different stains work etc!

"If Life Gives you lemons make Lemonade and then find a guy who Life gave him Vodka and then have a Party"
(Ron White/Comedian)

Sorry to see that,,,,,,,, maybe there is a way to fashion a "razor stand" out of them :shrug:

I would not write it off too quickly. I am sure you will find a use soon enough. Maybe not what you thought it should be to start with. Sometimes these things have their own idea as to what they should be up to.

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Originally Posted by RezDog

I would not write it off too quickly. I am sure you will find a use soon enough. Maybe not what you thought it should be to start with. Sometimes these things have their own idea as to what they should be up to.

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Well while I was having a couple of Barley Pops I thought that I'd play with a bit of it.

Here's a piece after a 30 minute soak in fairly strong coffee;

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I'm thinking of trying some other 'natural' stains like blueberry, raspberry etc just of the Halibut! hehehe

Maybe try some of the dark berries that are not quite so yummy.

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Maybe try some of the dark berries that are not quite so yummy.

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Such as? :shrug:

Where is the foot!?

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Maybe try some of the dark berries that are not quite so yummy.

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Originally Posted by cudarunner

Such as? :shrug:

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Poke berries would probably stain pretty well. You definitely don't want to eat them though!

Elder berries, and juniper berries are not very eatable, there are a couple others too, Oregon grape, Salal, oh and there is always the debatable concord grape, I have no idea why anyone would eat those!

Roy,

Strong tea works pretty good on bone. Protein stains for leather work does fairly well.

Should you decide to use leather stains, I suggest rubber gloves. If you get that stuff on your skin, it'll be stained for a while. It doesn't wash off, it has to wear off. :p

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Elder berries, and juniper berries are not very eatable, there are a couple others too, Oregon grape, Salal, oh and there is always the debatable concord grape, I have no idea why anyone would eat those!

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Elder berries and poke berries will make it purple.

Elder berries may not be good to eat, but they sure make good jelly. :)

Sorry to hear that your project took an unexpected detour.

Seeing how much I love cow bone, and aged, stained bone the most, I would love to know how the steps to extract usable blanks for scales from the bone.

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Originally Posted by MikekiM

Seeing how much I love cow bone, and aged, stained bone the most, I would love to know how the steps to extract usable blanks for scales from the bone.

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From what I can gather you definitely Do Not Drop Them/Must be a better way of getting it into more 'uniform' pieces! :w

I was wondering if they broke so easily was because they had been 'cooked'/I wonder if they had been left 'raw' if they wouldn't have been so brittle. :thinking:

One way to find out!

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