Bone Cleaning and Collecting Class. Multiple dates to choose from.

Name: Bone Cleaning and Collecting Class. Multiple dates to choose from.
Start: 2024-08-03T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-03T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Twisted Things

Schedule

Sat Aug 03 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Twisted Things | Ypsilanti, MI

Are you interested in making your own creations from bones?
Learn where to find bones locally, how to safely collect and clean them, and what animals are legal to work with. Bring a notebook and a beverage if you like! We're going to be learning a lot of step by step information for a few varieties of how to process bones. Even if you live in an apartment, you can process bones to collect or craft with. One participant will win a bag of bones to go home with!
Topics we will be discussing:
Where to find bones
How to clean and preserve bones
The legal side of Vulture Culture
Chemicals, safety and disposal
Water maceration
Roadkill
Open Pit
Burial
Heating
Beetle cleaning
Articulation/rearticulation
Oxidation articulation and cleaning
We will touch on Diaphonization and wet mounts
Troubleshooting greasy/stained bones
How to process and create with different types of bones
Identifying the age and quality of bones
And other tangents we get derailed by…
Class size limited to 10.
Tickets are $40 per person and available in store or online at www.twistedthingsypsi.com/classes