Thread: 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

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,,,,,,,,,

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

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

Originally Posted by bowhunter

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

Holy crap,,! Nice rack..

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Holy crap,,! Nice rack..

That's what she said