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Offline Redhand

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Re: elk horn bow
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2015, 09:11:05 am »
Thanks chuck. Let me know what kind of antler your looking for I might be able to help you out with that. There's a lot of people out here where I live always out looking for sheds.
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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2015, 03:00:30 am »
Wow, that's interesting. Thanks for posting this.
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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2015, 11:46:12 am »
Thats awesome experience!  :)
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2015, 09:57:44 pm »
Well Marlen, if you come across a large elk horn with a near strait section over 32", thats what I'm looking for. Looking for something I don't have to boil to straiten much. As antler breaks down when boiled and gets weak.
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« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2015, 11:29:28 am »
Sounds good Chuck. I'll keep a look out for one.
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« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2015, 05:44:23 pm »
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« Reply #21 on: May 31, 2015, 07:37:07 pm »
Let me try to up load these pics again.
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« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2015, 03:52:02 am »
 8)
So cool! I would love to try one of these but there aren't too many elk in England!
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« Reply #23 on: June 02, 2015, 10:37:26 am »
Red stags are first cousins of elk. I'm sure the Queen could spare an antler or two.  ;)
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Re: elk horn bow
« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2015, 05:25:55 pm »
I look at this bow and cant help but wonder, would siyahs be a good fit here? Especially without a wooden core?
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« Reply #25 on: June 03, 2015, 12:10:50 pm »
Really cool! I like that a lot.
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« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2015, 12:16:51 am »
finished painting and wrapping the handle with smoked buckskin.
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« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2015, 12:19:13 am »
more pics
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Offline stickbender

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« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2015, 01:41:26 pm »

     Beautiful.  Is it, the whole antler, or is it just the hard outer part?  Also how do you tiller an antler?

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Re: elk horn bow
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2015, 06:10:08 pm »
Quote from: mikekeswick on June 01, 2015, 03:52:02 am
8)
So cool! I would love to try one of these but there aren't too many elk in England!

Actually, Elk was long thought to be the same species as red deer. They share a common recent ancestor (but more with eastern asian red deer), just like grizzly and brown bear, and a bunch of other species that are shared among the two continents such as reindeer.
So you could get yourself some stag antlers. If you go to northern lapland, you can tons of shed reindeer antlers in early spring. Should make an antler bow as well.

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