Bow Head Whale bits from Rick P

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Rick P sent me some stuff, and the first thing I spotted was some pre-drilled pre-tubed stuff with Bow Head Whale marked on it. I think it might be tooth material, but I'm not sure. It was an interesting turn, and a challenge to say the least. I did the best I could, but it was very brittle and killed the edge on the tools I brought out of the "I won't need this any time soon" box because I expected it to be worse. I was going for a different shape, but as hard and brittle as it was, I didn't wanna push my luck. I did do a bunch of CA work, but I felt it would be better to leave a more natural-esque finish on it.
 
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LOL The pen looks great! The material came from the vertebrae of a bow head whale. Bow heads are the main source of food for the Eskimos that live along the coast of the arctic ocean. Most of the whale bone I use is vertebrae from bow heads.........I'll have to see if I can find some pics....
 

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Here is an illistration that shows the scale of these critters. The harvested whale from this season was only 30 feet long, very mild tasting for whale.
 

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Most of the pics I have aren't exactly "suited for mixed public", they are butchering pics and those are rather bloody! Found this really cool shot of a bow head skull with whale camp in the background when I did a google search.
 

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This one is probably OK It's just Elaine and I cutting bow head for lunch. The traditional knife is called an Ulu, they take a bit of getting used to but once you have the technique down they are the best general butchering knife I have ever used! Takes Elaine's mother about 5 secound to fillet a fish with one!!!!
 

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