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| Author: | James W B [ Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Bleaching nuts and saddles |
I am doing a repair job and I need to match a bleached bone saddle with a bleached bone nut.All I have in the shop is un-bleached.So what is the proper procedure for bleaching,and is it worth the effort,or should I just order some bleached saddles. James |
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| Author: | R W Goodman [ Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleaching nuts and saddles |
http://www.bearmeadow.com/build/materia ... clean.html This is some pretty detailed info on working with bone. Cant remember where I got the link, may have been here. Hope it helps. Warren. |
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| Author: | Steve Brown [ Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleaching nuts and saddles |
I wish I had asked that question before I ruined a dozen bone nuts by soaking them in bleach! |
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| Author: | Bruce Dickey [ Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleaching nuts and saddles |
I did this with some cowbone and giraffe bone, that article calls for white gas or coleman fuel. Basically all you are doing is leaching the oils out of the bone. I want to say I used lacquer thinner on mine. It's amazing how much you forget as years pass. Maybe my brain leaks. 
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