Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make bone scales from a fresh beef femur bone (I have since read that hind shin bones have thicker portions of usable bone, but let's not get sidetracked). I have cut the bone lengthwise into three long pieces and am trying to turn those into scale blanks.

Something like this:


But I don't have many tools at my disposal. I used a hacksaw so far, and am trying to use a belt sander (don't worry, I know the hazards of inhaling bone dust) to "plane" the pieces into blanks from which I can cut my scales. The belt sander is a very slow process and is really heating up the bone. I would like to use some sort of saw for this step instead. The problem is that I don't have a table saw.
This is what one piece of bone looks like so far:



What methods/tools would you recommend at this point?