Bone for Gladius handle

[Crispvs]

The links are certainly good for horn and so forth and I may go shopping with them myself for these items, but I would be a little more careful about the bone. Bone from the butcher will need cleaning up and boiling but it is also almost always free or very cheap, whereas the bone being advertised in the links seems very expensive to me. Also, when they talk about scales for knife handles they will be talking of flat plates for the sides of handles rather than hollow bones and equally, when they talk about hollow sections of bone, giving the length of the piece of bone tells you nothing about how wide the bone is or what its internal shape or measurement is. In my opinion you are far better off learning a bit about bones first and then selecting the bones you need from a butcher or pet shop where you can see them yourself and check them over. The same bones on two different animals may be slightly different to each other and one may be better for working. You could only pick the better of the two if you could see them in person with your own eyes. The websites do save you the trouble of cleaning up the bone, but then again, cleaning and preparing bone is not that difficult really.

Crispvs