WHEN I TOLD YOU I USED BUFFALO BONE. Buffalo bone is harder than cow bone and so it transmits vibration from the strings better. I use it on all of my ukuleles. And here is the proof. I was running out of bone. Our local Bison rancher John Muggy did his fall butchering last Sunday. He gave me the lower legs of eight Bison, (way more than I could use, or wanted), Hoofs, fur and all. What a job to skin, cut off the sinew and saw off what I needed.
But here it is, hanging outside the workshop, skinned and ready to saw off. After doing a dozen of these brutes I decided I had all that I wanted. Now how to get them cleaned up?
I take them to the outdoor barbeque where they are simmered in a pot of water with a little laundry soap. For some reason my wife insists that I not do this part of the job on the kitchen stove, but outside on the barbeque. Actually the result looked like pretty nice soup, and the bones came out nice and clean.
I take them to the outdoor barbeque where they are simmered in a pot of water with a little laundry soap. For some reason my wife insists that I not do this part of the job on the kitchen stove, but outside on the barbeque. Actually the result looked like pretty nice soup, and the bones came out nice and clean.
What price perfection" If you want to build the best you got to suffer a little! I am hoping that I now have enough buffalo bone to last me for the rest of my luthier life. I hated to waste those lovely huge hoofs but I could not think of a use for them. Any ideas, I can get you some next year when he butchers again.