Camel Bone

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Camel Bone

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I assume Camel Bone starts out white. How do you color it? I am not going to do it, but I just bought a Walt's in Camel. Could it be stained?
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Bone can be stained any color.
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I was given some camel bone some time ago,I did get the scales right,however as I was drilling it man did that stuff STINK!
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Good to know
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Just what did it smell like, inquiring minds want to know.
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It's not so much that it stinks as you are terribly aware that the smell is from grinding bone dust. You can't help reflect on your own mortality when you work with bone.
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Jim,Sammy,when I was working on the scales, it was outside,and it smells like burning hair,P FN U!.
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Are you sure it was bone? Horn and stag/antlers are made of keratin which is the same stuff as hair so sanding it smells just like burning hair.
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Jim,yes it was camel bone.
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