Bone Points?

[Steve Milbocker]

Has anybody used bone points before? I have been wondering how they stack up against stone. They seem like they would be way easier to build consistent especially for someone like me with almost 0 knapping skills. The Tractor Supply store has some very large bones for less than 3 bucks. I recently bought one to fashion some tip overlays for a bow I'm building. It sure is a nice material to work with, the nocks came out great.

[Marc St Louis]

Steve
I've only used them on small game.  If you want to try them then avoid domestic animal bones, they are much softer than Deer.

[johnston]

Steve, I made a few bone points for small game and they are holding up pretty good. Can't say how accurate they can be cause my arrows ain't the best platform to test with. My best luck was to glue shaped pieces together to form the head and then file to final shape. Know it is not primitive but I used Gorilla glue.

Lane

[Pat B]

A couple of years ago a few guys on TradGang harvested deer with bone points they had made. One might have been Doug Campbell.

[JackCrafty]

Bone points ARE much easier to make than stone points.  You can learn to make a bone point in about an hour but it takes at least a year to get really good at flintknapping.

They are lighter than stone and they are not as sharp... but they are a little more durable.  I made a lot of bone points before I started flintknapping but I never got a chance to hunt with bone.

[Steve Milbocker]

Thank you all.

[Bevan R.]

I seem to remember reading in a magazine about a guy that was laminating bone and wood like Osage and making points. 

Bevan R