[Histonet] A wonderful article on bone samples and a SAFE bone saw!

[Steven E. Slap]

Dear Gayle & HistoNetters

I have worked extensively with the Mar-Med bone saw and it is every 
bit as good as the article claims.  The website is 
http://www.mar-med.com.

best regards,
Steven Slap


At 12:15 PM -0700 3/26/04, Gayle Callis wrote:
>CAP Today, March 2004 had a delightful, informative article on handling
>bone samples/calcified tissues.  The key info was a bone band saw,
>relatively inexpensive at approx $810, Mar-Med Bone Band Saw, with diamond
>blade, water cooled to eliminate bone dust (no aerosol!) and blade will not
>amputate users fingers. Author pressed his gloved finger against the saw
>blade without breaking skin!
>
>It is the size of a microscope, quiet, cuts very thin slices, easy to
>clean, change blade, and a selection of saw blades (probably fine to
>coarse) - a dream saw for clinical/veterinary labs in need of a useful,
>safe instrument to obtain a sample suitable for fixation,
>decalcification,etc.
>
>Mar-Med Inc, PO Box 361201, Cleveland OH 44136, 440-572-5175.  Sorry, no
>website listed.
>
>The article was filled with clever inexpensive ways/tools to hold bone
>samples during slicing plus other hints on handling difficult bone samples.
>   Dr. Haber, author, can be reached at slhaber <@t> stanford.edu - he might
>forward a copy of this publication IF you do not get CAP Today.