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how to make bone ash?

updated wed 14 aug 02

 

Catherine White on sun 11 aug 02


From the Pet Crematorium? From the place where we owners of deceased pets
pay mucho dollars to have our pets cremated and their ashes returned to us?
Ouch! Oh, well........ such is the way of our mercenary world.
Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. P. Skeen"
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: how to make bone ash?


> Paul,
>
> You've about got it; bisque 'em and then grind 'em. I got a big bag o'
> crushed bones from the pet crematorium several years ago. Din't have to
> crush 'em; there was enough dust in the bag w/ the bones when sifted thru
> sieve 80m to fill a gatorade carton. :)
>
> L
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:09 PM
> Subject: how to make bone ash?
>
>
> > I found some bones in the woods from a dead animal, kind of sad i know,
> but
> > i was thinking maybe i could at least use the bones for a glaze. Does
> anyone
> > know the process of making bone ash, and can it be done from any kind of
> > animal bones?
> > My thought was to bisque them in a clay pot. Please let me know if
anyone
> > has done this before. Thanks.
> > Paul Borian
> >
> >
>
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Paul on sun 11 aug 02


I found some bones in the woods from a dead animal, kind of sad i know, but
i was thinking maybe i could at least use the bones for a glaze. Does anyone
know the process of making bone ash, and can it be done from any kind of
animal bones?
My thought was to bisque them in a clay pot. Please let me know if anyone
has done this before. Thanks.
Paul Borian

L. P. Skeen on sun 11 aug 02


Paul,

You've about got it; bisque 'em and then grind 'em. I got a big bag o'
crushed bones from the pet crematorium several years ago. Din't have to
crush 'em; there was enough dust in the bag w/ the bones when sifted thru
sieve 80m to fill a gatorade carton. :)

L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul"
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: how to make bone ash?


> I found some bones in the woods from a dead animal, kind of sad i know,
but
> i was thinking maybe i could at least use the bones for a glaze. Does
anyone
> know the process of making bone ash, and can it be done from any kind of
> animal bones?
> My thought was to bisque them in a clay pot. Please let me know if anyone
> has done this before. Thanks.
> Paul Borian
>
>
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Martin Howard on mon 12 aug 02


Bone ash can be made from any bones.
Just put them in a saggar or similar and kiln to 1100 degrees C.
That is what a pet crematorium near me does and I then use the ash in glazes
to give strength.

A few old pots with lids, seconds, are very useful to have near the kiln for
just this kind of purpose.
Some are used for "silver" paper (tinfoil) to give alumina for use in making
a bat wash and for adding to clay for making balls to keep bottoms off the
kiln shelf. Sometimes these second casserole dishes contain quantities of a
herb or other plant, to see what they will do as an addition to raw clay
tile samples.

Martin Howard
Webbs Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
01371 850 423
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
http://www.webbscottage.co.uk
Updated 6th July 2002

Snail Scott on mon 12 aug 02


At 07:23 PM 8/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
>From the Pet Crematorium? From the place where we owners of deceased pets
>pay mucho dollars to have our pets cremated and their ashes returned to us?
>Ouch! Oh, well........ such is the way of our mercenary world.


More likely from one used by your local Animal
Control Authority (dog pound) to dispose of
roadkill and euthanasia cases. (Might even be
the same one.) Give the poor critters a chance
at immortality, as art!

-Snail

L. P. Skeen on tue 13 aug 02


----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine White"
Subject: Re: how to make bone ash?


> >From the Pet Crematorium? From the place where we owners of deceased
pets
> pay mucho dollars to have our pets cremated and their ashes returned to
us?
> Ouch! Oh, well........ such is the way of our mercenary world.


This guy is the only crematorium in the area; he does all the cremation for
the dog pound, so I got some of their bones.

L

Catherine White on tue 13 aug 02


My comment was part serious but part joking- most of us owners of
deceased/cremated pets wonder if we're really getting their remains or
???????
N
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. P. Skeen"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: how to make bone ash?


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine White"
> Subject: Re: how to make bone ash?
From the Pet Crematorium? From the place where we owners of deceased
pets pay mucho dollars to have our pets cremated and their ashes returned
to
us? Ouch! Oh, well........ such is the way of our mercenary world.

>
> This guy is the only crematorium in the area; he does all the cremation
for
> the dog pound, so I got some of their bones.
>
> L
>
>
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