What Makes Our Bone Blanks Of The Highest Quality?

Simply experience - having worked exclusively with bone for the past 30 years, cut over 50,000 blanks and turned and engraved bone nearly every day of those 30 years I have an intimate knowledge of the material. Just like wood, to get the best from it you need to understand its subtle qualities - it has varying grain, it has different densities, it has areas of huge strength and others of real weakness. For it to perform at its best it needs to be sourced properly, prepared properly and cut properly, and only then can it be machined into a quality finished piece.

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Why Buy Hand Made English Bone Blanks?

More than ever these days luthiers are reporting that the origin of the materials that go into making an instrument are increasingly important to buyers. With customers looking for sustainable and locally-sourced materials English bone can be a really positive addition to the narrative of an instrument.    

 

Why Bone?

Bone has always been recognised as one of the very best materials to achieve optimum tone, attack and sustain, but if you want to get the very best results, quality is everything. All luthiers want to give their instruments the greatest chance to be the best they can be so when sourcing tone-critical components such as nuts and saddles, quality matters.

 

Why do I care so much about the quality?

From my first violin at the age of four I developed a life-long love of all musical instruments, not only are they beautiful things in their own right but they are also the conduit through which we make the magic of music. I’ve been a classical guitarist for 40 years, I love guitars and I have great respect for the fellow craftsmen and women who make them.

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Where does our bone come from?

Each and every blank comes from UK cattle bone. UK cattle bone is from animals that have been raised by farmers meeting all UK animal welfare standards. UK bone also means we can maintain a consistently high quality and reliable product.

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How to Buy

Just give us a call. We won’t give you the hard sell and we’ll try and answer any questions you might have. If you would like to buy we can take all major credit and debit cards.
In the rare event you might have a problem with a product we would of course give a full refund or exchange — whichever you prefer. The quality of our service is as important to us as the quality of our product.