Kia ora bro, great work keeping the tradition alive!! Plenty of knowledge with no fluffing around, straight up demo , I like it. 👍 Maybe chuck in a warning about protecting from bone dust eh, one puff can destroy your lungs faster than asbestos, fibreglass or silica, it's just bioactive enough to attach to your alveoli in your lungs, stopping them working but not enough for your body to breakdown, can cause scar tissue and cancer or even autoimmune issues in your lungs when your body attacks itself trying to break it down. Painful debilitating health issues similar to asbestosis or silicosis and no cure. Keep it wet, vacuum between sessions and use a dust mask if not a respirator, avoid fine grit sandpaper too, burnishing/polishing compound is better anyway. Owen Mapp is an awesome old as NZ master bone carver following both māori and welsh traditions with tons of books and old video teaching, Brian Flintoff is a specialist on bone instruments. The iwi have awesome skill but don't like to share the knowledge, preferring to keep NZ pākehā and māori divided while their culture, whenua and māoridom withers, the youth aren't interested and those that are find it too hard to find a kaiako matua. Te Takapū o Rotowhio is an awesome carving school but they only accept those that can prove māori ancestry... Would love to see you make some taonga puoro, maybe a bone flute, SOUNZ centre for NZ Music has some great examples, maybe even branch out to Japanese instruments like an Ocarina could be popular with an international audience or like a sámi people style drinking cup or "guksi" or one of their bone needle holders? people could use them to hold drill bits or fishing hooks or coins. sámi or welsh scrimshaw techniques would make a good video as well! Keep up the good work m8 the recognition is coming 💪
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I love bone carving. Haven't even thought about making other things like flutes and stuff. I'll definitely be looking into everything you've suggested. Thanks again. I'm going to be making more videos from now on. Just need to get a new microphone. Lol. 🙂👍
Rick The Maker I'm sure that somewhere near you, you will find people that have a mealworm farm. People with birds or reptiles raise these worms for animal food. If you toss your bones in with the mealworms, they will pick them completely clean overnight. After that you can soak them in water with a little bleach and you have white bones. I just subscribed to your channel, and I look forward to watching you carve bone. 😎
pretty much how i do it, do you keep the honey comb bits? I normally cut it out, Also i never thought about getting the shoulder blade for carving, i always just ask for the shin bone, I might have to give it a try. Hello from France bro
Yea. The shoulder is good for smaller pieces like earings and stuff as it is thin but I've gotten a few that were thick enough for large carvings. And I sometimes use the honey comb bits with epoxy. I use a vacuum chamber to get the epoxy into it and then carve it. Creates some really cool effects. Try to find uses for asmuch of it as I can. Hate waste. Lol. Thanks for the comment man. 🙂👍
Kia ora bro, great work keeping the tradition alive!! Plenty of knowledge with no fluffing around, straight up demo , I like it. 👍
Maybe chuck in a warning about protecting from bone dust eh, one puff can destroy your lungs faster than asbestos, fibreglass or silica, it's just bioactive enough to attach to your alveoli in your lungs, stopping them working but not enough for your body to breakdown, can cause scar tissue and cancer or even autoimmune issues in your lungs when your body attacks itself trying to break it down. Painful debilitating health issues similar to asbestosis or silicosis and no cure.
Keep it wet, vacuum between sessions and use a dust mask if not a respirator, avoid fine grit sandpaper too, burnishing/polishing compound is better anyway.
Owen Mapp is an awesome old as NZ master bone carver following both māori and welsh traditions with tons of books and old video teaching, Brian Flintoff is a specialist on bone instruments. The iwi have awesome skill but don't like to share the knowledge, preferring to keep NZ pākehā and māori divided while their culture, whenua and māoridom withers, the youth aren't interested and those that are find it too hard to find a kaiako matua. Te Takapū o Rotowhio is an awesome carving school but they only accept those that can prove māori ancestry...
Would love to see you make some taonga puoro, maybe a bone flute, SOUNZ centre for NZ Music has some great examples, maybe even branch out to Japanese instruments like an Ocarina could be popular with an international audience or like a sámi people style drinking cup or "guksi" or one of their bone needle holders? people could use them to hold drill bits or fishing hooks or coins. sámi or welsh scrimshaw techniques would make a good video as well!
Keep up the good work m8 the recognition is coming 💪
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I love bone carving. Haven't even thought about making other things like flutes and stuff. I'll definitely be looking into everything you've suggested. Thanks again. I'm going to be making more videos from now on. Just need to get a new microphone. Lol. 🙂👍
Rick The Maker I'm sure that somewhere near you, you will find people that have a mealworm farm. People with birds or reptiles raise these worms for animal food. If you toss your bones in with the mealworms, they will pick them completely clean overnight. After that you can soak them in water with a little bleach and you have white bones. I just subscribed to your channel, and I look forward to watching you carve bone. 😎
Thanks for the tip man. Ill ask around and see if I can find anyone.
awesome Bro, thanks for the video
No problem 👍
pretty much how i do it, do you keep the honey comb bits? I normally cut it out, Also i never thought about getting the shoulder blade for carving, i always just ask for the shin bone, I might have to give it a try. Hello from France bro
Yea. The shoulder is good for smaller pieces like earings and stuff as it is thin but I've gotten a few that were thick enough for large carvings. And I sometimes use the honey comb bits with epoxy. I use a vacuum chamber to get the epoxy into it and then carve it. Creates some really cool effects. Try to find uses for asmuch of it as I can. Hate waste. Lol. Thanks for the comment man. 🙂👍
Couldn't you just leave it outside and let ants and wasps clean it up?
In theory yes. But it would take a long time and you will still need to boil it to remove the oil. Good idea tho. Might try it with my next lot. 🙂