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7th September 2007, 12:28 PM #1
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I find the weirdest junk...
You know, most people feel blessed when they get cured of a disease, win the lottery, or end up with a Nobel Prize, but not me, oh no...
Gimme a hike in the woods, some dead animal parts and some rotten wood, and I'm the luckiest guy around. Go figure.
During lunch at the house we're working at, I went back into the woods again to find some treasures to make pens out of, and I came across a bleached and clean entire deer skeleton, er, most of it.
Since I was hunting for interesting wood, I wasn't expecting this thing at all, and it sort of startled me a whole bunch, because it just appeared right at my feet in a little thicket.
I had a five second thought process:
"AUUUGH!"
"Crocodile!"
"Giant White Spider!"
"Crazy-Undead-Evil-Horned-Forest-Lord that's gonna eat me!"
"unggh?"
"huh!"
"Wow."
"COOL!!"
Needless to say, the guys still think I'm nuts.
Here's the skull, complete with all teeth, jawbone (I looked for some Philistines to clobber to no avail
), and weird looking three point antlers.
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." - Stephen Wright
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7th September 2007, 01:40 PM #2
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Tell the truth,
You had a six second thought process:
"AUUUGH!"
"Crocodile!"
"Giant White Spider!"
"Crazy-Undead-Evil-Horned-Forest-Lord that's gonna eat me!"
"unggh?"
"huh!"
"Wow."
"COOL!!"
"There's gotta be a couple of dozen pens in that!!"
Cheers,
Andrew
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7th September 2007, 03:54 PM #3
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An entire skeleton, eh?
I wonder if the outer walls of the leg bones are thick enough to get some laminates out of?
- Andy Mc
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7th September 2007, 04:58 PM #4
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what a pity; a year or so earlier and you could have had a feed as well.
Denn
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8th September 2007, 12:06 PM #5
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Looks like a good find, hope you manage some great pens from it. Amos
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11th September 2007, 10:16 AM #6
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I actually cut the ball joints off one of the bigger leg bones to see if it would work. It is hollow, and there's a good bit of thin material if I could figure out how to optimize it in a laminate. I may quarter the bone long-wise on my little bandsaw and see what I can do, but I have to tell you, when I was cutting the bone....
Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
An entire skeleton, eh?
I wonder if the outer walls of the leg bones are thick enough to get some laminates out of?
Peeeeeeww. And Ewww!
There's so many other great things to make pens out of, but I just have to see, you know? It might end up pretty nice if I can hold down my gorge while cutting it. Gah.
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11th September 2007, 03:54 PM #7
Dances with splinters
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Oh yes! Your nose has my full sympathy! Originally Posted by karlkuehn
Peeeeeeww. And Ewww!
There's so many other great things to make pens out of, but I just have to see, you know? It might end up pretty nice if I can hold down my gorge while cutting it. Gah.
Wouldn't be so bad if you couldn't taste it too. URK! 
There's a lot to be said for just dropping in on the local butcher and buying de-fleshed cattle femurs, but then there's no challenge or story attached.
(Worse, I know I'll be stupid enough to do similar again, once the raw edges of memory fade...)
- Andy Mc
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11th September 2007, 03:58 PM #8
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Might also be worth avoiding the dust from sawing bone old enough to still be sickening smelling.
Likely to be a high risk endeavour.
regardsAlastair
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