Elephant Bone Carving

[Huntforever]

I was wondering want bones they generally use for elephant bone carvings?

 

[mark-hunter]

What I have seen, was tusks.

The tusk does not need to be full in length to be carved, sometimes it is a piece of tusks, carved to some shape, woman's head or similar

Photo from internet.

 

[Huntforever]

Wow that’s very cull

 

[Huntforever]

 

[kdenn]

Had giraffe shinbone carving made in Namibia.

 

[RLD]

All I have ever seen used are tusks. I have some around here somewhere if I could figure out how to post pictures!

 

[Rare Breed]

I was wondering want bones they generally use for elephant bone carvings?

Thigh bones

 

[Huntforever]

Had giraffe shinbone carving made in Namibia.

Very Nice Craving!!

 

[Huntforever]

Thigh bones

 

[Sabre]

Femur, the longer, solid, single bone in the back leg on each leg.

Second photo is a mammoth, but highlights the bone.


I would also add that they will likely carve many of the bones if you requested it.

 

[Huntforever]

That’s a good picture?

 

[Sabre]

That’s a good picture?

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[Cannonball]

A buddy of mine has two carved elephant tusk that his dad bought back in the late 70’s or early 80’s when traveling through Africa.

 

[Wooster]

For whimsical carvings I would use the humerus.