Euro mount issue, anything like this happen to anyone else???

[Fitzwho]

I do 30-40 euros a year. All boiler and pressure washer. I have never seen one do that. A lot of my customers are return clients that wouldn't hesitate to give me hell over something like that.

The very first heads I did for myself back in high school that I still have, were way over-boiled (no pressure washer at the time. Literally hours in a boil and coming up on 20 years since they were done and do not have cracks like that.

I admittedly got a hog head a little to hot last weekend. No grease left in it, but definitely is a bit more chalky than my standard work.

 

[brad407210]

Can you tell how deep the crack is? it almost looks like a knife cut from when they cut off the wrap that was on the base of the antlers. If you use glues and sealers it will be harder to get a good look because they won't take whatever you use to darken it. As the bone dries out over the next year you can watch the crack but I doubt it will spread if you keep it at room temp and don't drop it. If you rub some coffee ground in the crack it won't be visible, I've had good luck with that when I got peroxide on the bases, the wood stains were too hard to control on porous antler unless you want a real dark look.

 

[wytx]

That crack doesn't look like a boiling issue to me. It got dropped or torqued and cracked somehow.
What color is the antler, overheated will be a different color or real chalky.

Maybe it was cracked from fighting before the boil and just showed up after the heat caused it separate a bit.