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Tim McKnight
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From the bone doctor of course:D

Who can guess from which of God's creatures these tibias came from? These pictures give you an accurate perspective of the size of the bones. There is a free bucket-O-lard for the winner!








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Some large animal that now walks with a limp?
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Paul B is the closest so far. Keep guessin'

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yeah, Paul's onto something. A big mammal that answers to the name Tripod?

Tim, are you going to cut that into saddles and nuts? What kind of yield are you expecting?

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Its from the plain old cow. Not very exotic just plain.


 


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all of the bone nuts and saddles I use come from cows. I have no clue about that bone, but I would guess that it is a giraffe?

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Keep guessin'

Yes, I plan to process these tomorrow and I hope to get at least 75 pieces from each bone or I will be be in the red!

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Three Mile Island pasture-fed sheep?

Yucca Mountain ground hog?

I get cattle femurs from my butcher, and I've certainly never seen any that
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Yea ... Ken wins the tub-o-lard! Congrats!

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WOOOOO HOOOO!!!!!


Can you hide a nut and saddle in that tub of lard?



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Giraffa camelopardalis is the correct name but I never knew if was in the same family as camels.

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Show the next photo where you drop the bone on that freshly buffed back.
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I haven't buffed them yet. I was thinking ahead ;)

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I was going to say giraffe, but that bone doesn't look long enough for a leg bone. Unless it's a pygmy giraffe - with a limp.
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Femur...I agree, Doc.

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Wow, Femur yeah, absolutley.

So whats with the lower leg? Have the Tibia and Fibula seperated to become different parts of the lower leg? Or has the foot elongated? Ok, so now we're moving from guitar making to vertibrate anatomy


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All my nuts and saddles come from Camel bone. Camels tend to live a long time and as they act as beasts of burden they get to do a lot of hard walking which both strengthens and hardens the bone, making it more dense than cattle bone, which are usually only a couple of years old at slaughter. The same would be true of the giraffe (without the burden bit).

That Giraffe bone should make superb nuts and saddles.

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[QUOTE=Colin S] All my nuts and saddles come from Camel bone. Camels tend to live a long time and as they act as beasts of burden they get to do a lot of hard walking which both strengthens and hardens the bone, making it more dense than cattle bone, which are usually only a couple of years old at slaughter. The same would be true of the giraffe (without the burden bit).

That Giraffe bone should make superb nuts and saddles.

Colin[/QUOTE]

And look at how that bone's built. That thing was designed to take a load.

Interesting thing about bone; you are continually absorbing old bone and laying down new bone, though you'd never know. A lot of it is in response to stresses that the body is subjected to. Therefore you are building bone where you need it (unless you have osteoporosis) and taking away from where it's not needed. And it doesn't all have to be of the same density, dense bone = high stress area.

It might pay to put your engineers hat on and look at that skeleton to work out where the highest stress is likely to be in the bone - that's where the densest bone will be. Dunno if that would be helpful making nuts and saddles, it'd be interesting to do a test. Well, maybe only to me


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