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Old 04-07-2008, 12:28 PM
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I was told that dust from antler or bone can have the calcium leach out in the moist lungs and reprecipitate in sharp spicules damaging the lungs as the move. *any* dust is bad for the lungs though.

Miles: mineral oil will help with the drying and will not hurt the metal---can you immerse it or is there other materials that should not be oiled in it?
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