I made a kegerator handle

 

Don't have pictures, but I've made:

• a harry potter wand for my son using antler as the handle, drilled a hole in the end of antler for the wood part of wand and glued wood in.
• made a spindle holder for firestarting bow/drill using a flat/cupped part of antler.
• cut disks for necklace or earings and wood burned designs, also dremeled designs. Both stink so use face mask.
• cut disks for set of elder runes and wood burned runes in each
• used curved part for door handle on outhouse
• can use for hooks for hanging coats or hats or even bow.

I'm sure there are more, but can't think of them at the moment.

 

I would go find drift wood and then take deer antlers if they were a match or close to it, instead of having right side on the right and vice versa I would put right side antler on the left side and left on the right to have the tines in a row and drill the antler and then screw it to the drift wood and it makes a good coat rack or hang my bow from or pack and accessories... sorry don't have a picture as I would make them and give em away...

 

I sold most of my smaller ones, 10-12 bucks a pound for the brown ones. Made enough money to pay for a hunt or buy some hunting gear, I once would have never thought of selling but I had moved a couple times and was just done shuffling them around!

That tapper handle is sweet though.

 

The top shed is one that my father found and just cut slots into to display some knives.

The others are all sheds are ones that he found, and had a Native American friend carve for him.

 

I have quite a collection of deer shed antlers and I am looking for ideas on what to do with them. Please share photos with what you have done or have seen yourself


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I am into traditional black powder shooting so I often make them into powder measures or handles for a short starter or similar. A couple years ago I made a field flask, a powder flask that holds about 5 reloads of loose black powder, out of the base portion of an elk shed.
I also like to do crude engraving on them. Deer tracks, grizzly track, wolf tracks, elk antler outline, stuff similar to that.

 

Genuine arrowheads that I found while looking for shed antlers with my father, sitting on an antler that he found and carved a couple of feathers and slots into for the arrowheads to sit in.

 

Knife handles made from an elk shed that I found while mule deer hunting with my father.

He later made the knives (from blanks that I bought for him; he did the final shaping, polishing, etc), cut the antlers into scales, fit them up, put everything together, did the final shaping to fit his hands, and finished them off.

 

Knife handles made from an elk shed that I found while mule deer hunting with my father.

He later made the knives (from blanks that I bought for him; he did the final shaping, polishing, etc), cut the antlers into scales, fit them up, put everything together, did the final shaping to fit his hands, and finished them off.

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Now that is some beautiful Damascus

 

People pay crazy money for antler lighting fixtures.

 

 

Youre looking for things to make with them or ways to display them???

I have I few thousand that I dont like to cut or drill into. I can show you a few ways I display them if thats what youre looking for.

Swiffy

 

Yes, that would be great! I thought about a paracord type deal that i would like to hang from cieling to floor in 2 corners of man cave but cant find one that is long enough or has enough hangers.

 

Coat hangers, glove rack to dry gloves, hat rack, cabinet handles

 

We put them in our Christmas tree just like tinsel and lights. Spread them throughout the limbs.

 

We have a ledge around the living room at camp that we hang them from by the brows. Basically a short shelf with a piece of trim to keep them from falling off.

 

Some really neat stuff in this thread. I’m going to stop giving away my sheds.

 

 

A fellow fly tyer. I like that a lot. 👍

 

Here’s a pool table light I made, no drilling. All bigger singles hung by brows.

 

Some bigger Muley sets on barn board sconce…

 

Bigger WT sets in a recycled cabinet from a dental office with adjustable shelving… and a couple better elk sets hanging from an old pulley. Lots of baskets…

 

Holy Antlers Batman!

 

The antler tree. I like this. I have it full of medium WT set that can be pulled off and held. A closer pic of the elk pulley. And close up of WT shelf’s.

 

Keychains from elk sheds (it took me a while to find these pictures).

If you look closely, you can actually match up a few ends on the intact antlers with the finished keychains. Look for the chewed and grooved ends, they are the easiest to match up.

 

Some of my ashes are going into a set of muledeer sheds.
I am drilling them out and having them put my ashes inside, add some non leaking, threaded closures.
That will be my urn.