Ivory on euro mount advice

[Mikido]

So I’m doing a bull elk euro mount myself. I plan on bleach/peroxide the skull white, but I’d like to keep the ivories in the skull and maintain their stained yellow color.

Any tips?

 

[Geewhiz]

Pull them out and then glue them back in after whitening.

 

[butcherboy]

Yep, pull them out and clean the tissue off. Glue them back in with white Elmer’s glue when the skull is done. Don’t use superglue because it will turn yellow.

 

[Eagle]

So I’m doing a bull elk euro mount myself. I plan on bleach/peroxide the skull white, but I’d like to keep the ivories in the skull and maintain their stained yellow color.

Any tips?

Resurrecting this. Any pics of how it turned out?

I was planning to do the same, but after doing a test fit once my skull was clean, it looks very goofy as the ivories stick out from the skull more than anticipated. I guess I could cut them down, but seems like a waste of ivory.

 

[highcountrymuley]

I don't understand the love for elk ivories. They are almost as gross/dumb as the big ol turkey beards I have boxes of!

 

[Mikido]

 

[Mikido]

It’s not that they stick out more, the tissue around them get boiled off, so more of the ivory shows. Meh either way

 

[Eagle]

It’s not that they stick out more, the tissue around them get boiled off, so more of the ivory shows. Meh either way

Right, I get that, just wasn't what I was anticipating when I did a test fit, haha. I think I'll save mine for a custom knife project down the line.