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GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:54 pm Post subject: Antlers.

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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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:56 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 4:59 pm Post subject:
or walking stick handles...

GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 5:01 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 5:04 pm Post subject:
Drill a narrow pilot hole first and it will be easer to get the screw to bite

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 6:15 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 7:45 pm Post subject:
What kind of deer ?? .

GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 10:03 pm Post subject:
I have no idea...

GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 08 10:03 pm Post subject:
they are fairly big.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 10:56 am Post subject:

GENT wrote:

I have no idea...

Was it blind?

GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 12:31 pm Post subject:
Badum Boom...

gil
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 2:31 pm Post subject:
Are you going to take a photo of them when you've finished and post it here, GENT ?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 4:02 pm Post subject:

GENT wrote:

...! i dont have the hart...

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

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 08 5:13 pm Post subject:
Like these ?? (Roe) Or like these ?? (Fallow) or more pointy than the above ?? (Red) .

GENT

Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Student diggs- coventry.

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 08 11:38 am Post subject:
Yep, like those. (they must be red deer, thanks!)

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