I am trying my hand working with this material.

Preparing bone:
I tried a 20th centruy approach here.  Had fresh cow femur de-kneedd and hip
jointed, then split - demarrowed by hand, nearly puked.  Mixed a brew of
automatic dishwasher tablet, bleach and clothes washing powder heated to 70
degrees and steeped for a half hour then boiled mercilessly for 2 hours.
Scraped bones halfway through the process - gagging all the way, revolting.

Bones beautifully clean, odour free and pearly white at the end of this.

Bones are irregularly shaped and irregularly thicknessed.  I am having
difficult envisioning how to tackle them.  Woodworking approaches won't work
on this material....  Can anyone who has worked with this irregular, smelly
but beautiful material gve a novice some insight into its mysteries?  How
ought I approach converting a bone into flat, thin natural heads and tails?

Many thanks

Doug.

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