Since there is no Deer Antler working category I had to put this pen under woodworking -
A few weeks ago I made a few lever action pens using deer antler in the fore stock of the of the pen. At the time I wanted to make the butt stock out of antler as well but I couldn't find an antler big enough. I mentioned this to a friend that has more than several Amish families nearby that are hunters. Last week I was presented with a pair of antlers with enough stock in them to make many many pens ( front and rear stocks). So my first chore was to pay for the antlers and the asking price was a lever action pen made with deer antler. As can be seen in 5th picture, it is slightly bigger than the other pens and the extra is all in the butt stock. I think it has a more proportionate appearance. Henceforth, I'll probably make any more lever action pens with the larger style butt stock. As you can see, I barely got into using up the antlers. The hardest part was using a piece straight enough to drill for the fore stock. A little bit of engineering, tape and super glue and I was in business. I did have to fill a couple voids and I did that with chips made from turning the fore stock and super glue. One feature of this pen is that there is no finish on it at all. The fore stock was sanded to 10,000 with micro mesh (dry) and the butt stuck was sanded to 4000 and buffed on the cotton wheel. All in all it came out pretty good - I think he'll like it, I do
Very nice, the deer antler has a great looking appearance to it, somewhat like wood. I guess that qualifies this project for the woodworking category. I'm also assuming that the material probably works similar to wood, maybe hardwood?
Very nice, the deer antler has a great looking appearance to it, somewhat like wood. I guess that qualifies this project for the woodworking category. I'm also assuming that the material probably works similar to wood, maybe hardwood?
yeah, it works similar to cherry or walnut except it's really porous and I've never tried to just buff cherry or walnut.
Cool... that antler is/are the, have some spare antler,
Recycle 1943 Alex - carving the stock isn’t really carving. I’ve got half a dozen more to make so tomorrow I’ll do a ducky thing and show with pics how I do it. It’s not necessarily how it should be done, just how I do it.
however, missing the "how I do it" pics.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
