Scraps of long bone—ox shank, elk femur, or boar tusk—scraped clean and roughly worked into staves. Bone-carvers, chess makers, comb makers, and flute makers buy these fragments by the pound to trim and finish into their wares. The hardness resists chisels but takes fine detail once seasoned.
Bone (for carving)
Scraped bone scraps; used by carvers and flute-makers for chess, combs, ornaments.