Darkening Antlers

[bigsky2]

Looks awesome

 

[wytx]

View attachment 52110View attachment 52111

Liquid pine tar followed by dirt and bark then rubbed with a spruce stick to seal down the color.

 

[realunlucky]

View attachment 52110View attachment 52111

Liquid pine tar followed by dirt and bark then rubbed with a spruce stick to seal down the color.

Your pictures didn't work for me but I'd love to see them

Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

 

[Daniel_M]

Big thing with the potassium is if the bone is hard horned or not. Nice thing is you can apply it thinned out and shade the results a bit with a steel wool pad to lighten them from the bases up. Tough to beat the color for sure in comparison to any oil based stain.

 

[wytx]

darkening antlers

View attachment 52130



Sorry they came up on preview.

 

[wytx]

darkening antlers

The color was not set by rubbing on the above pic, here's one after it was "done"

View attachment 52132

 

[Z Barebow]

I used stain thinned out. To get the ivory tips lightened, I used steel wool to lighten up.

In my research, don't start too dark. You can always add color if it is too light for your taste.

 

[geriggs]

burnt umber oil. taxidermist uses it. worked great for me