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GENT



Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:54 pm    Post subject: Antlers. Reply with quote
    

I have been in posesion of a pair of antlers that a friend from Wisconsin couldnt take back with him for the past fiew months.
I thought it was a shame for them to just sit on a shelf so i got it in my head to mount them so that they can go on the wall.

They are seperate, no skull attatched, sawn off very neatly from a rotting carcass he found while he was working in scotland.

To get to the point; how would I go about mountig them? would a bit of glue do to fix them to a plack?

J

(ps, MODS, feel free to move this to the apropreate section, i just thought as it had to do more with hunting than darning socks...lol)

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You might find glue won't hold it, often they are screwed to the wooden plate from the back of the wood into the antler.

You could always make tool handles or knife handles with them as an alternative.

Lorrainelovesplants



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

or walking stick handles...

GENT



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

i promised to keep them for use by him for such things, he insisted that i use them, but he braved the rotting corpse! i dont have the hart...

screwing them onto the bord, sounds like a plan, thanks sally.

JJ

sally_in_wales
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Drill a narrow pilot hole first and it will be easer to get the screw to bite

Bodger



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Keep them as they are. We screwed our to a wooden plaque, fixed it to the wall and use it to hang keys, gloves, scarves and orrible kids on.

KILLITnGRILLIT



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What kind of deer ??





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GENT



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have no idea...

GENT



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 05, 08 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

they are fairly big.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 08 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

GENT wrote:
I have no idea...


Was it blind?

GENT



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 08 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Badum Boom...

gil
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 08 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Are you going to take a photo of them when you've finished and post it here, GENT ?

mochyn



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 08 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

GENT wrote:
...! i dont have the hart...


Oh dear. Jack, was that intentional? You're fitting in well.

KILLITnGRILLIT



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 08 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Like these ?? (Roe)



Or like these ?? (Fallow)



or more pointy than the above ?? (Red)





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GENT



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 08 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yep, like those.





(they must be red deer, thanks!)

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