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Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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Location: Kernow

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 9:08 pm Post subject: Skeletons
What's the best way to get the bones out of something?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 9:11 pm Post subject:
I think it depends what it is. Are we talking something small? Or ex-husband sized?

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
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Location: truro

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Skeletons

Stacey wrote:

What's the best way to get the bones out of something?

do you want the flesh or the bones?

carpet beetles are the high quality way to get bare bones. they are the way many museums clean out the inside of skulls. you could boil it if the bones are heavy ones. I woudln't do this for a small bird, it would work for a pigs leg as an example

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 9:16 pm Post subject:
I seem to remember reading that quicklime disolves flesh but not bone.

Stacey

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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 9:54 pm Post subject:
I want bones - samll bones. I may move onto larger bones a my skills increase.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:06 pm Post subject:
I think you can bury them. Doesn't Sally do this? I seem to remember something about sheep bones in her shed.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:07 pm Post subject:
You could boil it? (Assuming not ex-husband sized)

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:07 pm Post subject:
Do you just want some bones or do you want a skeleton that you can articulate?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:09 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Do you just want some bones or do you want a skeleton that you can articulate?

As in 'make it speak intelligently'?

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:11 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

sean wrote:

Do you just want some bones or do you want a skeleton that you can articulate?

As in 'make it speak intelligently'?

No. As in 'connect it all back together anatomically correctly.'

As you very well knew. Baggage.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:12 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

I think you can bury them.

Doesn't Sally do this? I seem to remember something about sheep bones in her shed.

I knew I hadn't lived that one down yet...
Dermestid beetles are the best way, but we do ok just burying odd items in the garden for a while, its faster if you cut the most obvious meat off first. You can clean them up and whiten them after using baking powder and if you can then leave them ina sunny greenhouse for a few days the bones bleach beautifully, its got just enough oomph to degrease and clean them up without dissolving them.

I did try caustic soda once, thinking it might sort the flesh out fast so I could move on to cleaning up the bones, and ended up with whole-head-cheese, complete with bones magically turned to revolting slime. I don't recommend that method at all

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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:14 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

we do ok just burying odd items in the garden for a while,

The flaming badgers would just dig them up and nick them here.

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:16 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

we do ok just burying odd items in the garden for a while,

The flaming badgers would just dig them up and nick them here.

Would they articulate them?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 10:17 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

I did try caustic soda once, thinking it might sort the flesh out fast so I could move on to cleaning up the bones, and ended up with whole-head-cheese, complete with bones magically turned to revolting slime.

Thank you for that image.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 11 11:14 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

sally_in_wales wrote:

we do ok just burying odd items in the garden for a while,

The flaming badgers would just dig them up and nick them here.

I feel I should point out that Badgers are protected, and you are not supposed to set fire to them

Henry

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