Thread: Buying Bone for wedges

I'm going to try and pick up some today. I got two choices. Pet Store or Butcher Shop.

In your opinion, Why would I choose one place over the other?
The wife says the Butcher shop would have fresh and pet store would have dried. If I'm going to scrape off anything on them and boil them to be sure they are clean, then dry them out a bit before I try to cut them, then would it matter if they were fresh or dry?

Comments, Suggestions, theories? Or just lie to me.
I just thought others might like to know a bit about this along with myself. I plan on using power saws to cut them up and see what I come up with. Maybe get a couple big enough pieces for a scale set too. Who knows.
So what say you?

Why not grab some bones along the road, sometimes you can find some that are sun bleached. Grab a couple tire weights while your lookin around, should be a few of both.

Not much of that in the big city Mike. Bones that is. BTW, i did get some lead! But thats another story.

I've always got my bones from the butcher shop. They are usually covered with meat or other tissue and require some extra work to clean. You might be able to ask for a nice thick bone at a shop or maybe have a better selection.

I wonder if some bone scale blanks would not be good to begin with?

Jerry, I've purchased lots of stuff off this seller over the years, he sells bone blanks.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-Fla...UAAOSwr81UNr4C

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I wonder if some bone scale blanks would not be good to begin with?

Yeah, camel or giraffe bone looks really nice.

I may have a few stag discs you could use. If you're interested I'll see what is in my boxes of stuff I'm going to use one of these years.

I save my messed up pieces and slabs with osteo issues in unfortunate places for wedges and experiments. I have used a few bones that came out of the soup pot for making stuff out of as well. I have never used pet shop bones, it seems better to be able to make soup first. Bronze the bones in the oven and then boiled them to make stock, it is too delicious to not use butcher shop bones.

I've made wedges out of pet chew bones. They had some kind of flavoring in them that took a while to get out. In the end I liked the color, but I think that I would go butcher shop next time.

I bought the pet shop beef bone. Scraped off the biggest part of the stuff dried on it. Then boiled it for 15min. Scaped off anything left on the bone and now it's sitting in the garage. I think I might boil it again this evening after the wife goes to bed. She was not happy with me doing this. I explained that it isn't any different than when she boils meat but that didn't help. She said it smelled bad. I don't know as I cant smell.

I was hoping for a more white color so I might end up soaking in something to get more white color. I've never played with the bone before so I'm just guessing.

So, how do you deal with a bone to be sure it's clean and ready to work with?

I will check out that link but I was hoping to get started on this anytime now. I might not be able to do anything for a week with this thing. Bummer!