Feeling horn y?

Sorry bout the title, couldn't resist.
just got back from Bobcageon and the annual closing of the cottage on a gorgeous summer like day.
I went for a trek in the woods with some time on my hands and loe and behold I stumble across this.
Now, what to do with the material. Never worked with antler before but I'm thinking scale material possibly? Wedges for sure,maybe even parts of or an entire brush handle?
Am going to do an SRP search but thought I'd post and solicit ideas from your experiences with this dear material..
I didn't know they fell off, but could have been a fight as there are some gouges out of the tip on a few points.
I will be going up again and looking around more as these might be useful.
cheers, and thx for any tips..

Damn that's more like it
I got a bag on horn on the weekend but only tips nothing anywhere near as nice as that chunk of multiple scales, brushes or ice picks LOL
There are plenty of stag horn scales & brushes on here
GSSixgun, Pixelfixed & OCD have all made awesome stag items scales & brushes
As well as many others who have used it on SRP
Good luck with it hope to see something soon
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Deer and elk shed their antlers every spring and grow new ones. What you've got is a shed antler. The tips are gouged from being rubbed on trees to skin the "velvet" off of the new horn. The new horn is encased in a skin and it looks like velvet. When the antler reaches maturity, the skin dies and the antler hardens. The velvet hangs in shreds and the critters rake their antlers against the ground, trees, bushes and whatever to clean 'em off.

It is possible to make scales and brush handles from antler.

The inside of the antler is pretty porous and pithy. The outer 1/3 or so is tough.

I made a pipe from an antler many years back. Used the base as the bowl and the eye guard as the mouthpiece. Charred the inside of the bowl with a cutting torch and it was smooth smoking pipe.

A nice brush handle there,,,,,,,,

Glen made this one for me,,,,,,,,,

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Thanks for the insights. That's an amazing assortment of tips you got substance, nice score!
The stump, or root of this piece screams brush to me as well so I will be copying that style with mine Hirlau, I like how deeply the knot is set.
That base area on this one is nice and dark and bumpy all the way up to that first point.
Was reading up on antler straightening with vinegar and water so I will give that a go on one of the points first and see what I can make this material do before I carve up that nice middle area. There could be two sets of scales buried in there waiting to be discovered..
Ya know its funny ya made a pipe out of one wullie. Ive been thinking of finding an old pipe and experimenting a bit. Add another vice to my list,, hehe. I remeber how I loved the smell of my grampa's pipe tobacco and if it tastes half as good, I'm in..
Besides, the wife wants me to cut back on the cigars, so this could be my sidestep,and yet technical capitulation on the matter..
Thanks again gents! Salute.

Mike,

Technically antlers are bone, not horn...

I suppose you could still have made a suggestive title using 'bone r' for example, though! :)

Regards,
Neil

The base your talking a bout is the crown it's real name is coronet not sure I want someone cutting my new ones up though lol

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Thanks Neil. I strive for accuracy on my plays on words I do.. Them and my innuendos,,,
Hehehe.
Cheers..

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The base your talking a bout is the crown it's real name is coronet not sure I want someone cutting my new ones up though , lol

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Holy crap,,! Nice rack..

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Holy crap,,! Nice rack..

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That's what she said

Now we have an Aussie supplier for antler it seems,
all in the 1 set LOL

And already very straight sections, very efficient planning there BH.
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And already very straight sections, very efficient planning there BH.
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Main beams are 32 and 33 inches. So would make a few scales lol

Use the base (crown) to make a brush handle,that would be killer.

I have one I have no idea what to do with. I figured a I would email Bill when I got to that part.
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Here's a nice example of antler scales on a razor. It's one piece. Slot sawed down the middle and then the blade pinned at the hinge.
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Another type of handle treatment more often seen on knives than razors.
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And a shout out to our esteemed BRUCE ( AKA Sharpton ) who so graciously sent these to me.

Thanks Again Tom!
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That's a great set of horns Shawn! Was that a ram? Wonder what the marrow,or whatever it's called, looks like on those. I mean can you use the whole thickness or are the hollow.
Wullie, that first razor looks the bomb, and gives me ideas on how to use some of this rack, thanks man. Sharpton made those for you? Damn fine work Bruce!

pretty sure the rams horns are mosty hollow

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pretty sure the rams horns are mosty hollow

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Yeah they will be hollow for about 2/3rds of there length and quite thin maybe 1/4 to 3/8 thick depending and the ends will be solid

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That's a great set of horns Shawn! Was that a ram? Wonder what the marrow,or whatever it's called, looks like on those. I mean can you use the whole thickness or are the hollow.
Wullie, that first razor looks the bomb, and gives me ideas on how to use some of this rack, thanks man. Sharpton made those for you? Damn fine work Bruce!

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They are rams horns from a big horn sheep. Because they are horn and not antler they are contracted a little different. This is where it get sketchy in my mind. I think the horn grows around a bone base. In theory it should pull off once it has aged enough for the bone to shrink in a bit. I am not sure on that though. They are a pretty good size. It was from a dead animal found in the bush, as opposed to hunted. That is the as found condition. It has been gnawed on by little features so it isn't any good for a full set, but should work for some project for certain.

I tried to talk my cousin out of this set but he balked.

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Taken with bow 100 yards out of my Uncle's front yard. 18 point as I recall and about 1/64 from a B&C record.



You can also use them on a nice set of Wade and Butcher Stainless.
currently in restore.
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Here a couple I got last week with the girlfriend

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Plenty of horn for you boys and a ram I found

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Picked up a bit of antler on the weekend a few razor scales or knife handles

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Very nice score should keep you busy for a bit hey