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Thread: Help? Next steps for mounting Antlers...

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    Help? Next steps for mounting Antlers...

    Hi all,
    Hoping you can help me out for my next steps here... have a small set of red deer antlers I'd like to clean up for the wall...
    They've been in the garden for over a year (I'll be honest, I forgot about them)... just a small piece of skull still attached.

    Do I need to scrub the antlers themselves, or seal them with anything? How about the small but of the skull?
    If I scrub them, do I need to be careful of not stripping them?

    Do I beeswax when done, haha?

    Or do I just rip into making a base and screw it on - bobs your uncle?

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    I made up a paste of baking soda and peroxide, scrub with a toothbrush and leave it for a while, careful not to get it on antlers if they have nice staining on them (mine didn't so covered the whole lot as had green mould on then) wash it off and then figure out where to put them.

    @HoppyV8 is selling nice native timber base to mount them on
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    Quote Originally Posted by 223nut View Post
    I made up a paste of baking soda and peroxide, scrub with a toothbrush and leave it for a while, careful not to get it on antlers if they have nice staining on them (mine didn't so covered the whole lot as had green mould on then) wash it off and then figure out where to put them.

    @HoppyV8 is selling nice native timber base to mount them on
    So the baking soda/peroxide is just for the little bit of remaining skull, rather than the antlers themselves?
    (I quite like the colour of the antlers at the mo )

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    so you whiten the bone of skull...or not,paint works ok too,my old chammy heads have scratchfill primer in brown.... screw skullcap to bit of wood and hang it on wall... if you have a look at the thread hoppyV8s son has some nice bits of wood and there is pictures of mounting a skull on there.
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    75/15/10 black powder matters

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    This channel has the best tutorials that I've seen

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknMPC0FQ04&t=231s

 

 

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