Bone Knives

[JayDee Flohr]

Not really sure what period these fit into in the grand scheme of things but they are a refreshing change of pace from working with steel.
It started a couple weeks ago when a friend send me a photo of one he liked. I did also and decided to make one. Well, like potato chips, you can't have just one! :grin:

If you've never worked with bone, I'll say this, it's harder than a person thinks and will take a wicked sharp edge. Probably won't hold it for long but easily sharpened.

 

[bingo1952]

It'll do deadly work on the veggies but won't hold up long on meat especially if you get to working around other bones. Other Bones. :rotf: :rotf: :v
They do look good. :thumbsup:

 

[RC]

VERY NICE! Ya dun real good..I like the left one best..but dang they all pretty neat! Nice Job.. :bow :thumbsup:

 

[PitchyPine]

Those are cool. :thumbsup:

 

[Many Klatch]

Well, period wise they are Pre-Columbian. That is a lot of nice work that you have there. I have made a few bone fish hooks just to see how hard bone was to work with. I haven't seen many bone knives, but there were a lot of bone arrow heads.

Many Klatch

 

[BillinOregon]

Fossil: What bone did you use for the blades, and how did you shape it?

 

[JayDee Flohr]

Bill, the far left blade is from a cow leg bone. The other two are Caribou antler. I used a grinder, rasp, files, then sandpaper. My shop stunk for a week! :wink:

 

[LRB]

Our pre-columbian Florida NA's used gator jaws for daggers. This is a copy of one, and sports a seven inch blade. Small ones are only worked on one side of the jaw bone, but this one was from a ten footer allowing both sides to be shaped and retain enough strength to do some real damage.

 

[JayDee Flohr]

:thumbsup: looks good

 

[widget350]

All the knives in this thread are beautiful! As a "naturalized" Floridian, I'd love to have one made of gator jaw, like the one Wick just posted!

 

[tg]

Nice looking knives both of you guys, I used to like working with bone for knives and arrowheads, i might dig around but I think they are all gone, nothing to compare with those you guys have shown, making pre-columbian replica artifacts is very interesting and has nearly unlimited possibilities one of my fabvotites was a war club with horns for points one going one way and one the other, I think I may have a pic of one made with cow horn I sold the Buff horned ones many years ago. wow brings back memories, of making things in a preiron age world.

 

[BrownBear]

Bone knives and spear points were really common in coastal Alaska until "recent" years, when a mass switch to snapped and ground slate occurred. I've handled some in archeological digs that were still plenty sharp. But in my limited experience with them, you better keep a sharpening stone handy and use it often. Cutting skin is the worst, no matter what kind of skin.

 

[mrbortlein]

I made a not-so-sharp bone knife with a heart shaped neck holdster for my 8 year old son to wear at Rondy-vue. It's simply a deer leg cut at an angle. Enjoy http://picasaweb.google.com/mrbortlein/MyKnifeStuff#5206983196496190322

mrbortlein