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Horn and
Antler
It must be
appreciated that horns and antlers are naturally
grown items and as such there may be considerable
variation between individual pieces.
True horn is a
thermoplastic and can be heated, bent and shaped to
create wonderful horn handles, but you may need
specialist equipment to use it to its full
potential. Antler is bone and cannot normally be
bent.
If you require specific
sizes or shapes then please make sure you advise us
of these at the time of ordering - we do our best
to provide what our customers want but reading
minds is not our speciality!
As soon as you order anything your order form has a
box for "Additional order information" - please use
it to tell us what you want.
NOTE: Measurements
of horns are made along the outside
curve.
All countries have import
restrictions on "Animal Products" (which includes
'raw horns') to prevent the spread of infectious
diseases. All our horns are acquired legally and
have been disinfected where appropriate. However,
it has been our experience that horns and
unfinished horn products are very likely to be
stopped by Customs outside the EU.
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How to bend Buffalo
Horn into crooks
Small home-made booklet by
The Stick Man. A detailed step-by-step guide
showing you the 'easy' way to make Buffalo Horn
handles. It includes colour photo's of a
horn-bending jig in use with tips on how best to
make use of it. Only £2.50 for a digital
version or £2.95 printed. The printed version
will be posted to you, the digital one will be
emailed so make sure your email address is correct
when you go to payments!
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Pre-shaped
handles for walking sticks (still
require filing, sanding and
polishing).
Please note that
although these are made to "standard" patterns
there will inevitably be variations in exact
dimensions and coloration of horns. "Perfect"
pieces are rare - so don't expect them to be so.
Many horns will show some fine cracks or streaks of
grey, white, blue or brown and should not be
considered "faults". Personally I think the
perfectly black pieces look a bit too much like
plastic when polished.
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Buffalo
Horn Round Handle (long)
Long nose so you can turn
it outwards to make a full-turn nosed crook.
Roughly shaped for you to finish.
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Buffalo Horn
Round Handle (short)
As above but with the nose
shorter and turned inwards. Roughly shaped for you
to finish.
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Buffalo Horn
Wide Fork Handle
Roughly shaped for you to
finish.
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Buffalo Horn
Standard Fork Handle
Roughly shaped for you to
finish.
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Rams
horn CRAFT GRADE
Damaged, thin or hollow horns, with cracks and
holes or other damage, making them less suitable
for stickmaking. Still useful for practising with
or for cutting up for other projects. £4.00
each.
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Rams Horn "Backs" -
hollow sections from the open ends of the horns
(may still have the bone core inside.) approx 3-6"
long. Useful for making horn spacers or capping
material. Can be cut, heated and shaped to form
ears, horns, beaks etc. on carvings. Also useful
for making spoons, napkin rings, shoe horns or
other craft projects.
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For abrasives
and tools for stickmaking
look
HERE
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Polishing
Kit for
horn, antler, plastic and embedding resin.
Note: The polishing kit is best used after all
scratches have been removed with abrasive tape/mesh
and steel wool (see
Tools).
Set of two polishing
wheels, coarse and fine polishing compounds (one
for each wheel) and a threaded cone mandrel. The
mandrel fits almost any electric drill (including a
bench drill) converting it into a polisher! Use one
wheel with coarse compound to take out fine
scratches left after abrasives - then use the other
wheel with fine compound to polish to a bright
mirror-like shine!
Gently touch rotating wheel
with compound block to apply a fine
coating.
NB use eye
protection with rotating wheels and use on
fairly slow speed for best results. The wheels are
small enough to fit inside most crooks and
market sticks to get to those hard-to-reach
internal curves!
For replacement
compounds and additional polishing options see the
TOOLS
page.
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Stag
Antler
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can not ship outside the UK.
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British Stag Antler.
UNFORTUNATELY THE SUPPLY HAS VERY MUCH REDUCED DUE
TO THE BUYING-POWER OF THE PET INDUSTRY. ANTLERS
ARE BEING CUT UP AND SOLD AS DOG
CHEWS!
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Exact
shapes vary
but will resemble pictures. Colour may vary from
near white to dark brown. Green staining may show
if naturally shed antlers have been left on grass
for some time. Thickness can vary a lot - from
under 20 mm to over 30 mm.
If you require specific
sizes/shapes/colours we will try to accommodate you
but stock is very low.
Most antler is oval in
cross section to some extent, making it awkward to
fit to sticks unless a spacer or collar is used -
or you use oval-topped sticks.
Some antler is quite smooth
to the touch, some is very rough. Most will have
some brown coloration which is usually
peat-staining from the hills where the stags live.
Antler is bone - not horn - so cannot be heated and
bent like true horn can be.
Old, naturally shed antlers (those that fall off in
the spring) can lose a lot of colour by becoming
bleached by sunlight. Often you will find one pale
side that's been exposed to sunlight and the other
side is darker where it's been shaded. Antlers from
culled stags are often very dark brown because
they've had no chance to bleach out the
colour.
It's quite feasible to
darken otherwise pale antler by staining or
painting
(Van Dyke Crystals on the SHANKS
page work well ). Whether pale or dark, I find it
best to sand down the surface to reveal some of the
paler bone underneath, giving a mottled or striped
effect. The paler areas polish extremely well,
particularly when buffing wheels are
used.
Antler has gone up in price
over the last few years because a lot of it is now
being sold for dog-chews in pet stores. Personally,
I won't give it to my own dogs because it can be
very hard and brittle and can break into very sharp
spiky pieces!
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EXTRA SMALL
Antler Coronet (Crown) Handle
Length of tine
(point) 2 to 4" and to fit small sticks like riding
crops.
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SMALL Antler
Coronet (Crown) Handle
Length of tine
(point) 4 to 6"
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LARGE Antler
Coronet (Crown) Handle
You can often cut
the tine shorter and use the cut tip to make a
whistle! Cap the cut end of the handle piece with
horn or bone to make a neat finish.
Length of tine
(point) 6" to 8"
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Extra LARGE
Antler Coronet (Crown) Handle
You can often cut
the tine shorter and use the cut tip to make a
whistle or knife handle! Cap the cut end of the
handle piece with horn or bone to make a neat
finish.
Length of tine
(point) over 8"
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Horn
and bone spacers
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can not ship any items outside the
UK.
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Buffalo horn (black or dark
brown with pale streaks). White/cream bone slices.
Cow horn (pale honey coloured, sometimes with
darker mottling) for capping stag horn or as
spacers between joints. These can be sawn, filed
and sanded to shape and polished or varnished.
Normal thickness is around 5 to 7 mm.
Sorry, but we don't drill
the spacers for you.
Note:
When drilling spacers make sure you support them on
scrap wood in the vice otherwise you may crack some
of them! I find it best to drill half way through
from each side - especially with the bone
ones.
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Horn/antler/bone off
cuts
For cutting into caps for
antler handles and various craft purposes.
Assortment of horn, bone & antler slices and
off cuts depending on what we have in stock,
approximately 150 gms in each pack.
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Antler points - Pack
of ten small points (1" to 3" long) for
making key rings, light pulls, zip pulls or small
whistles. £ 6.00
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Pack of two large antler
points (3" to 6" long) for larger whistles,
knife handles etc.
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Extra Large Antler point
(approx. 6" to 10" long and usually curved) for
knife handles etc. LAST FEW
REMAINING
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Roe
Buck antlers
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LAST
FEW
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NEW STOCK
EXPECTED SOON
Antler Fork
Budget grade.
Irregular in
shape or thinner/smaller so less easy to fit shanks
to them.
Can be used for cheap working sticks where
functionality is more important than classy looks.
Often used as dog chews too - but it's up to you.
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Antler Fork
Standard grade
for Thumbsticks.
Less regular in
shape than the grade A. Base of the "neck" often
more oval or narrow, requiring the use of a spacer
or collar to get a good joint with the shank - or
use up those oval-topped or thinner shanks you have
left after you've used all your best ones! These
are more variable in thickness and can go from 20
mm up to 35mm or (rarely) more. Please specify
if you have particular needs.
These are the
most popular antler pieces we sell and will make
very usable (and saleable) handles for working and
hiking sticks.
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Antler Fork
grade "A"
for Thumbsticks.
Fairly regular in
shape and comfortable in the hand. Less "turn" in
the neck of the antler (so the fork is more
upright). More circular in cross section at the
base than the Standard grade antlers, making them
slightly easier to fit shanks to them.
Only a very small proportion of forks are grade "A"
so we can't always keep them in stock. These are
usually from the "top" ends of the antlers so are
mostly narrow at the bases - around 23 to 26mm.
Please specify if you have particular needs.
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