Epoxy Resin Horn

[Wooden Spring]

I pose this question 'cause I know I'm not the only one out there doing this...   

OK, so last night I made a 2-part Resin pour, using some crushed up charcoal as coloring to imitate black horn for my tip overlays (works GREAT!). Let's say I want to imitate antler, with its various hues of brown, bone, pearl, etc...  How do you do that? What colors do you use? Any pictures?

[Aaron H]

Crushed up chalk maybe?

[DC]

You can use this stuff if you have color mixing talents
http://www.systemthree.com/store/pc/Epoxy-Paste-Pigments-c46.htm?gclid=CLmjt5OLn8gCFQmRfgodsg8P3Q

[PatM]

Watercolor dry powder works great as well as powdered pigment for making wood dye. You can quite easily mimic cow horn with blends of black, white and tan colors.

[simson]

Hm, isn't it a lot easier to use horn or antler. Both is really easy available ...

[Wooden Spring]

Hm, isn't it a lot easier to use horn or antler. Both is really easy available ...

It is? If so, I haven't found it, not for a good price anyway. The stores around here (North Georgia) think that antler is made of gold. Besides, I can mimic horn pretty easy, and with the resin, it is really cheap.

[DC]

Hm, isn't it a lot easier to use horn or antler. Both is really easy available ...

I would think so but epoxy doesn't smell as bad as grinding horn.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Hm, isn't it a lot easier to use horn or antler. Both is really easy available ...

It is? If so, I haven't found it, not for a good price anyway. The stores around here (North Georgia) think that antler is made of gold. Besides, I can mimic horn pretty easy, and with the resin, it is really cheap.

Have you tried PetSmart or PetSupermarket?

[JoJoDapyro]

Antler at the Petsmart in Utah is probably $30 a pound.

[Badger]

  I have been using the 2 part epoxy putty to form horn nocks on elbs. Side by side with real horn it is very hard to tell the difference. I have only been using black.

[dolgima]

nice idea.  can you upload pictures how to make epoxy resin horn?

[dolgima]

  I have been using the 2 part epoxy putty to form horn nocks on elbs. Side by side with real horn it is very hard to tell the difference. I have only been using black.

resin and putty is different?  Do I need pigments to coloring putty?  is normal putty  strong enough to make elb horn nock or tip overlays?

can I find any pictures how to make epoxy horn?

[DC]

  I have been using the 2 part epoxy putty to form horn nocks on elbs. Side by side with real horn it is very hard to tell the difference. I have only been using black.

When using putty do you form the tips right on the bow or do you make them separately and glue them on after?

[PatM]

Way easier to form them right on the bow. You get a perfect fit every time. You can buy mold material for casting epoxy so you can get the finished shape right from the beginning.

[Tree_Ninja]

I've only experimented thus far, but I found some really nice epoxy in squeeze tubes ,white stuff that looks like pearl when finished. It sticks to horn too, so I made a bi-color horn tip. (Pics tonite). I think it would do well if you can color match it to a horn, and you're worried that the glue lines aren't perfect. Also you don't have to cut into the back of the bow. Just sand it with 120 grit and put it on.

I mix it up (touch more hardener), slap it on with a stick, wait about 5-10 min( a little more sometimes) until it gets a bit hard, and won't stick to fingers. I then mold it into general shape by hand. 

Belt sander to shape it down (after 48 hrs).Then it sands by hand nicely.