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seraine22 Novicius Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 8	Useful Bones Jun 10^th, 2010 at 8:47am My cousins use to run a dairy farm and now there are cow ribs and such all over the place in their pastures.I was wondering if there's a use for cow ribs(such as knife handles,blades,spear and arrow heads,along with anything similar).
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #1 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 10:40am if there is paleoarts will know what it is A cow leg bone would make a great club.
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Mordechaj Funditor Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 576 zagreb, croatia (europe) Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 11:16am You could make an atlatl of a cow rib if it's big enough. you can shape atlatl spurs from them for sure. Leg bones can be used for a lot of things (bone knives, clubs, knife handles, spear and arrow heads, harpoon heads...)
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Paleoarts Interfector Viris Spurii Offline it don't mean a thing if you aint got that sling! Posts: 1993 oceanside, CA Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 1:09pm seraine22, all that you mentioned and more such as combs, fish hooks, needles, etc.
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #4 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 3:41pm cow leg bones I have that have been crafted are made as sling release tabs, and Thor's hammers
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Reply #5 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 6:15pm

Needles and needle cases, thread bobbins, handles, staff decorations, hair pins, archer's thumb rings, and smaller "safety pins" are made from leg bones
Ribs can be carved and used as a veneer on wooden caskets, like the Anglo Saxons did
Knucklebones can be squared off and used to make dice. (Roll them bones)
Shoulderblades are good for buttons and toggles

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Bikewer Interfector Viris Spurii Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 1627 St. Louis, Mo Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #6 - Jun 10^th, 2010 at 8:25pm I build cigar-box guitars and other instruments, and use bone exclusively for nuts and saddles.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #7 - Jun 11^th, 2010 at 8:09am Arrowheads, spoons and forks can also be made from longbones, along with small containers.
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seraine22 Novicius Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 8	Re: Useful Bones Reply #8 - Jun 11^th, 2010 at 10:24pm I was thinking a cow rib would be a good naginata blade,except for the fact that it isn't metal.It's the right size and shape,it's practically a unsharpened blade without a point,and it isn't that round.
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LukeWebb Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 801 New Brunswick Canada Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #9 - Jun 11^th, 2010 at 11:46pm Don't forget indian breastplates made from ribs strung up to look kind of like a proper rib cage with beadwork around it. How do you make a thor's hammer from a cowbone? He has a metal one in the comic... I would be interested to know how to do that.
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Lycurgus Senior Member Offline [ch924][ch927][ch923 ][ch937][ch925] [ch923][ch913][ch914 ][ch917] Posts: 445 Coventry, England Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #10 - Jun 12^th, 2010 at 3:50am LukeWebb wrote on Jun 11^th, 2010 at 11:46pm: How do you make a thor's hammer from a cowbone? He has a metal one in the comic... I would be interested to know how to do that. I am pretty sure he means an amulet shaped like Thors hammer to be worn like a necklace.
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Reply #11 - Jun 12^th, 2010 at 10:12am

LukeWebb wrote on Jun 11^th, 2010 at 11:46pm:

Don't forget indian breastplates made from ribs strung up to look kind of like a proper rib cage with beadwork around it.
How do you make a thor's hammer from a cowbone? He has a metal one in the comic... Roll Eyes

I would be interested to know how to do that.

i meant a thor's hammer charm pendant thing

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picklepie159 Descens Offline Destroying Million year old rocks with string Posts: 211 South Park, Colorado Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #12 - Jun 12^th, 2010 at 2:49pm here, i has it... http://melchiormenzel.de/ SLINGSHOT! P.s. on the left hand side, click making slingshots, and then click making slingshots again, and then click bone slingsht.
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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3974 Gender:	Re: Useful Bones Reply #13 - Jun 19^th, 2010 at 4:33pm I have seen a deers sacupla (shoulder bone) be turned into a saw before I assume you can do it with a cows shoulder too
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