Pen Made From Human Bone

[Vendome]

 

Have some respect Jeffrey...............that should read "precious resin skeletons."

 

EDIT - I just remembered going to some store in the French Quarter around 2000 and getting a real creepy feeling, leaving, and a few days later found out the owner was involved in some grave robbing operation and was selling the bones in his shop.

 

I've been past that shop. The sign in the window said 'Burke & Hare - Resurrection Men'.

 

When I shuffle off this mortal coil, I'm stipulating in my Will that I wish to be cremated. No one's making a pen set out of me.

[WirlWind]

 

I've been past that shop. The sign in the window said 'Burke & Hare - Resurrection Men'.

 

When I shuffle off this mortal coil, I'm stipulating in my Will that I wish to be cremated. No one's making a pen set out of me.

 

What if they make an pen-top urn and keep your ashes in it?

 

Or what about mixing the ashes with a binder and then compacting the ashes tightly so the ash hardens and you use that as the body for said pen?

[CS388]

There are so many other things to make pens out of.

Look around you, right now. I'll bet you can see at least 10 more suitable things to make a pen from.

 

But I'm not against it on principle. I'm a total atheist and don't care what happens to any leftovers, once I'm dead.

 

On a more pragmatic note, is there a bone in the human body suitable for this purpose? Aren't they all hollow? Off the top of my head (?) I can't think of one which would have suitable mass to be turned/ground/cut into a decent sized pen?

[Vendome]

 

What if they make an pen-top urn and keep your ashes in it?

 

Or what about mixing the ashes with a binder and then compacting the ashes tightly so the ash hardens and you use that as the body for said pen?

 

ooh no. I'll be happy with being cremated and I can leave my pens in my Will, along with the rest of my estate.

[TSherbs]

Lol, William Faulkner said he would like to be a vulture, they fly high, find food everywhere, and nobady meses with them

Take a look at his face!

[Inkling13]

 

What if they make an pen-top urn and keep your ashes in it?

 

Or what about mixing the ashes with a binder and then compacting the ashes tightly so the ash hardens and you use that as the body for said pen?

hahahah even if you were created, it would just make things easier. Have you heard of M3 pen blanks? They have created blanks out of volcanic ash, as well as Visconti... so good luck with that after you pass... If I were made into a pen, least I'd be around for a bit longer....

[Anitropius]

I'd only be okay with writing with a human bone pen if I had a human skin clad leather journal to match it. The paper would, of course, be made of a mixture of grinded bone meal and dried brain matter. Also I would have a dismembered human hand to act as my cigarette holder. With a cranium ashtray, of course. But then I would feel the need to get myself a decent rug to put my boney writing desk on... anybody willing to become part of my decor?

Edited January 7, 2014 by Anitropius

[jonathantravelstead]

Here are a few of my pens made from human bones, ulna & radii. These are my early ones, but I'm waiting to post my collection to my Etsy page at the end of the month.

 

https://goo.gl/photos/ZFALdWE7x15ruWav8

https://goo.gl/photos/H7BxH5AQ4FRNwfwu5

 

I know a guy that would give his right arm to have these back!

 

Jonathan

[fly_us]

That's would be cool.

 

Oh, nope, it isn't.

[InkedUp]

Here are a few of my pens made from human bones, ulna & radii. These are my early ones, but I'm waiting to post my collection to my Etsy page at the end of the month.

 

https://goo.gl/photos/ZFALdWE7x15ruWav8

https://goo.gl/photos/H7BxH5AQ4FRNwfwu5

 

I know a guy that would give his right arm to have these back!

 

Jonathan

 

Don't know if you're serious or not but take a read through their prohibited items list...

[Cryptos]

Interesting. All of the taboos about using human bones for other purposes are just made-up things. And we use animal bones for all sorts of things, which kind of compounds the hypocrisy I think.

 

Whether it's suitable to use is a question for the material science guys.

 

I'm also one of those people who doesn't find the smell of sawn human bone to be particularly disagreeable.

 

tl;dr, it's just bones. There's no magic attached.

[DrowsyEmperor]

Objects have been made from bone, human or otherwise, for as long as mankind has been around.

 

That said, bone is a poor material for the kind of precision work pens require as it degrades over the years and changes shape. Totally unsuited for precision industrial mass production, no?

 

A bit of a strange obsession to have it made from human bone, considering that it would be impossible to tell where the bone came from anyway.

 

I'd only be okay with writing with a human bone pen if I had a human skin clad leather journal to match it. The paper would, of course, be made of a mixture of grinded bone meal and dried brain matter. Also I would have a dismembered human hand to act as my cigarette holder. With a cranium ashtray, of course. But then I would feel the need to get myself a decent rug to put my boney writing desk on... anybody willing to become part of my decor?

 

You forgot the blood donor for the ink.

Edited December 17, 2016 by DrowsyEmperor

[katanankes]

Here are a few of my pens made from human bones, ulna & radii. These are my early ones, but I'm waiting to post my collection to my Etsy page at the end of the month.

 

https://goo.gl/photos/ZFALdWE7x15ruWav8

https://goo.gl/photos/H7BxH5AQ4FRNwfwu5

 

I know a guy that would give his right arm to have these back!

 

Jonathan

 

Did you get your inspiration from this old thread or did you find it only after your work began?

[Orpilorp]

This all seems morbid to me. I have no problem with pens made from antlers which fall off buck deer every season, but bones? And aledged human bones at that?!

 

This smacks of something that famous German doctor in the late 1930s and early 1940s might do to his "patients".

[Manalto]

This all seems morbid to me.

 

Ya think?

I'm all for recycling but, because bones are so brittle, I don't think there's anything in the human body suitable for pen construction. Lest we stray from ghoulish thinking, perhaps we should consider the option of infant bones.

[Pickwick]

Here are a few of my pens made from human bones, ulna & radii. These are my early ones, but I'm waiting to post my collection to my Etsy page at the end of the month.

 

https://goo.gl/photos/ZFALdWE7x15ruWav8

 

Here are a few of my pens made from human bones, ulna & radii. These are my early ones, but I'm waiting to post my collection to my Etsy page at the end of the month.

 

https://goo.gl/photos/ZFALdWE7x15ruWav8

https://goo.gl/photos/H7BxH5AQ4FRNwfwu5

 

I know a guy that would give his right arm to have these back!

 

Jonathan

 

https://goo.gl/photos/H7BxH5AQ4FRNwfwu5

 

I know a guy that would give his right arm to have these back!

 

Jonathan

 

That sounds a good deal. You can make more pens from the bones of his arm and kindly send him one as a gift, and keep the rest for yourself.

[Arkanabar]

Thread necromancy!!!

Using human bone to make tools is a form of objectification of people, rather like those plasticised, dissected/skinned human corpses occasionally put on display. Treating people like things, particularly as obects for one's own use, is at the heart of every sin.

Perhaps if the material were taken from bone removed during surgery and obtained with consent, I wouldn't object so much. But harvesting from the dead would strike me as immoral. Burying the dead is one of the corporal works of mercy. Preventing their burial, or digging them up, strikes me as the opposite of caritas.

I suppose it would serve best as a non-structural material, used for accent, inlay, or the like.

Edited December 18, 2016 by Arkanabar

[Cryptos]

The inlay idea would work. There are many mala (meditation beads) that were made from rings cut out of the skull bones of dead monks. The skull is quite dense and the sections that were used have survived decades or more of constant, daily handling.

[mmg122]

Perhaps this is going to come across as extremely creepy (understandably so) but are there any pen manufacturers that make, or have made, a fountain pen from human bone? I'm in medical school and thought it would be cool to have a pen like this. I'm sure the brittleness and internal structure of bone doesn't make it an ideal medium for working with but maybe even as accents on a pen....? I'm not suggesting a harvest of living humans but I would certainly be happy if my bones were made into conversation-inducing pens after I'm gone.

 

 

You're right...extremely creepy!