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Title: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on March 04, 2010, 04:20:01 PM: I am about to get a cattle shin bone and will need to clean it. I have read that you can boil it and scrape out the marrow. Is this it?

Julian Millichamp says soak it in linseed oil I assume to replace oils?

Does anyone else have one?

Any help greatly appreciated.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Jamieh on March 04, 2010, 09:01:07 PM: I believe you do just boil away, was going to try this myself.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: hell4leather cricket on March 04, 2010, 09:04:29 PM: boil it in hot water ,do it outside though it stinks! then soak it linsead oil for a 3 months!
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Talisman on March 04, 2010, 09:14:55 PM: Just boil it to death and then be prepared for a long soak, cannot remember how long.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on March 04, 2010, 09:23:11 PM: Thanks, I've got to find a suitable pan now.

The butcher went to give me the shin bone and it was huge so I'll be going back tomorrow to get it cut, must have been some mutant cow!

How will I know when it's suitably soaked?
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Talisman on March 05, 2010, 08:11:44 AM: When it's Yellow..... and the end of the season....
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Jamieh on March 08, 2010, 10:58:10 AM: Would you need to soak it again after a season or so, or once done does the linseed oil stay indefinetely?
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Talisman on March 08, 2010, 12:35:42 PM: It should be in there for the life of the bone.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on September 20, 2010, 12:45:33 PM: I've just checked the progress of this one and there appears to be a cream liquid settling at the bottom, the bone has been in there since March and looks slightly yellow. I assume it will darken in the sunlight and oxygen, completely unsure as to whether to take it out now?
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: longy0710 on September 20, 2010, 01:11:36 PM: apologies for sounding daft but what do you use cattle shin bone for???
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: iand123 on September 20, 2010, 01:12:37 PM: Quote from: longy0710 on September 20, 2010, 01:11:36 PM
apologies for sounding daft but what do you use cattle shin bone for???

I'm glad someone else asked that as i wondered the exact same thing!
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: RoCo Da Pixie on September 20, 2010, 01:21:27 PM: I Beleive you can use it to knock a bat, Or press it, But i remember seeing a topic about this a fair few months ago
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: snafu on September 20, 2010, 01:26:59 PM: i thought it was for the last stage,to give the bat a final smoothing by rubbing it up and down the blade adding a lustre finish.Not to replace knocking in.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on September 20, 2010, 01:34:02 PM: I believe it's to add a lustre to the blade and give it a gentle seal.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: snafu on September 20, 2010, 01:36:22 PM: :) :) :)
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: RoCo Da Pixie on September 20, 2010, 01:37:32 PM: Quote from: snafu on September 20, 2010, 01:36:22 PM
:) :) :)

Good Knowledge, I have limited knowledge on the tools and peripherals
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Washington on October 30, 2010, 06:04:50 PM: How did this work out?
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on October 30, 2010, 06:41:59 PM: Surprisingly well, it does add a nice shine and harden the edges. I put some handles on each end and it probably needs breaking in a bit or I could have done with smoothing one surface so I had a truly flat side. Unfortunately I haven't made a bat recently so I haven't been able to give it a thorough test.
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Washington on October 30, 2010, 06:47:44 PM: Would a normal burnishing tool work just the same with a bit of linseed oil wax?
Title: Re: How to clean and prep bone, advice needed
Post by: Beachcricket on October 30, 2010, 07:04:00 PM: Maybe, not sure perhaps one of the bat making big guns could weigh in on that one. On the Gray Nicolls bat making video on youtube they are using a piece of round steel I think, so anything will do I suppose.