Bone Clones

So my first experience with Bone Clones was ordering from them online. When I saw they were in Canoga Park I thought about using local pick up instead of shipping. I asked if they had a storefront I could browse. They said pick-​ups are by appointment and I could see their showroom but that they don’t keep all products in stock — many of them are made to order. In the end, in the interest of time, I had them ship my order to me. It was amazing. I love it. It’s a replica fossil elephant bird egg.
So then they sent me an email saying they were having an on-​site sale, one day only. I drove down there on a Saturday and arrived early, when the sale began at 10am. There were already several people there and pretty soon the place was swarming! Since their products are kind of pricey, I had thought that their sale would probably have a lot of stuff i couldn’t afford and maybe I’d end up buying one thing for $ 60 – 100 but then I saw the prices ran the full gamut from $ 1 to over $ 100. Many of the items would be fair to be called «seconds» where the casting process hadn’t gone great, or where it looked fine, but still had plastic tabs and tags and wasn’t all cleaned up. Many things weren’t stained/​painted the way they would be at full retail price. I scored a very beautiful replica human skull for $ 28, 2 tiny bird skulls for $ 2 each, a California Condor skull for $ 3 (!!) and some human rib bones for $ 1 each. Lower jaw bone for $ 6? Yes please!
They also had nicer things, stained skulls that didn’t look like seconds for about $ 100 and my girlfriend was thrilled to go home with a panda skull for about $ 30 and a narwhal horn (tooth) for $ 30. They had even taller ones there for $ 50 but the one she got was already taller than her and we weren’t sure the bigger ones would have fit in the car so well!
When I talked to the employees and brought up that I was surprised they had all these raptor talons and had an osprey skull but had no osprey talon, they took my comments to heart and said they wanted this kind of feedback. The osprey talon is unique among raptor talons for its shape so it should definitely be something they consider making.
All of their products are replicas. They sell NO real bone or real animal or human parts. They boast better than museum quality although I take issue with that on some of their bird eggs which appear amaturely painted and their raptor talons which I believe are not as sharp as in nature (and I know as I’ve been poked by many of these species!!)
Overall I’m VERY happy to have found this company. I love their work (with few exceptions) and hope they have another sale in the future that I can go to. Just amazing work!