Wife didn't appreciate the antlers

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Bobalu

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I picked up a box of antler pieces last weekend on eBay. I've been turning a lot of 30-06 cartridge pens lately, and the bulk box of pieces looked like a pretty good buy. Only one problem. I didn't tell the wife about it.

I left out on Monday morning for Athens. TN to make my first service call of the week. My plan was to return Tuesday night and work around Atlanta the remainder of the week. I figured I would be home before my wife those days I worked around Atlanta, so I still saw no reason to inform her about the box. Besides, she seldom opened boxes addressed to me. She usually just stacks them on my workbench in the garage.

Well, things didn't work out as planned. I got a call late Monday from a customer in FL, and I headed there next. In my hast to get there, I completely forgot about the arrival of the box of antler pieces. It wasn't until Wednesday night, when I called home to check in with the wife, that I gave it any thought.

I still don't know why she decided to open the box, but she did. And when she did, the first thing that she saw was deer fur and skull bones. Most of the pieces were still fresh and there was some odor. Needles to say, the sight freaked her out. I really got a tongue lashing that night.

When I got home Friday I sorted out the box and cut off all the objectionable stuff, but I'll be sure to inform her next time I bid on any such material.
 
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My wife picks up all of my mail because I am always out of town every week. She gave up a long time ago opening parcels. If I do ask her to open it, it's merely to check for damage.
 
Hard to imagine that the skull would still be that 'nasty' from last hunting season....unless someone just shot 'em(out of season)?


Wife knows better....she doesn't want to know what it was before it's covered with a few coats of CA!!!




Scott (illegal deer parts...not me) B
 
SDB777 said:
Hard to imagine that the skull would still be that 'nasty' from last hunting season....unless someone just shot 'em(out of season)?
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I think the smell was just marrow odor, as the guy cut up a lot of this stuff to get it all in a medium Priority Mail box. Seven pounds of it. The skull pieces were well dried, just the sight of a couple of inches of skull attached to an antler wasn't what the wife cares to see. I'm very pleased with the lot. I have already gotten my monies worth when compared to store bought stuff, and I've barely made a dent in the pile. I don't think the guy was a pen turner, maybe an antler light builder, as a couple of the pieces had brass inserts already installed. Probably to connect them to a base or each other.
 
I turned a bunch of antler a couple of weeks ago and shop vaced it up but did not empty it, a few days later the shop started stinking badly like something had died our there so at the time I cleaned and looked but to no avail then I thought about the antler and emptied the vac and cleaned the filter and the smell went away just my 2 cents worth.
Jerry
 
Seer said:
I turned a bunch of antler a couple of weeks ago and shop vaced it up but did not empty it, a few days later the shop started stinking badly like something had died our there so at the time I cleaned and looked but to no avail then I thought about the antler and emptied the vac and cleaned the filter and the smell went away just my 2 cents worth.
Jerry
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Good tip. Tomorrow is my "clean the shop vac" day. Another good reason not to overlook that chore. Thanks.
 
hey, just a FYI, but don't necessarily cut the skull pieces away from the antler automatically. Try just trimming the edges away from the antler till you can turn the whole thing. If you can manage it, that transition area from the skull bone through the cuticle of the antler and the crown, then into the actual beam of the antler yields some interesting looking materials.
 
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