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What do YOU do with YOUR deer antlers? I am trying to decide what to do with mine. I had 3 antlers. 2 were mine and another got stuck in the baler from the field somewhere. I like antler buttons,...

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I've made ball starters for muzzle loaders. You could make lamp posts and Chandeliers too.

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Oogabooga, That is a great idea. I'm from Missouri. Do you know of any knap-ins in Springfield-Ozark-Stockton... area that will happen soon? Does it cost any money? What's on the usual agenda of a...

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One of the best right in your back yard will happen around the 25th of Sept. It is called the Bois Darc Primitive Skills Gathering. It is just outside of Greenfield at the Hulston Mill. It is five...

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I think if your going to dye antler ..walnut would work better than coffee or tea....however coffee and tea both will stain bone hair pipe....chicory coffee will do it even faster and better .alnut...

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Oogabooga, I will try to go to that. It sounds like a lot of fun. Qills, thank you. I just wish I didn't have to wait so long for dropping walnuts. I want to dye some buckskins too. Yeah, my husbands...

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This is what I'm going to make with my big deer antler. I've carved it and filled with red pigment from the Plateau. It was originally an ivory/off-white but I've antiqued it with potassium...

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Alz, that is BEAUTIFUL! Please forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure what to call it. A pigment vial? Pigment carrier? Your carving and beading are absolutely beautiful... I hope one day to be as...

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Thanks for your nice words Ma Tanner. It's a quirt, a quirt in the style mostly used in the Northern Plains. The beaded strap is intended to be worn on the wrist. There are several historical examples...

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Oh, thank you alz.

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very nice ..how do you attach the beaded wrist loup to the horn..Holes & thong??? Now I remember the PP to ..read about it before .When I was a kid that was in everyone medicine cabinet the...

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Quillsnkiko: you have to carve a hole in the antler. In it is fixed a small wooden stick. The beaded loup will be fixed to the stick with a brass tack.Here I think you can see the hole. The second...

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wilderbabe- i feel ya!next to our woodstove is a galvy tub for firewood, it's close to our entrance, and in it i find gloves, rags, boot liners...drives me nuts.i have hung baskets, twigs, everything...

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Dropping walnuts ..I think theres a whole pile of them out on the end of my yard ...covered with snow . Nuts inside are probably still good and hulls would yield dye I am sure .If yourd want to pay...

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Thank you Quills, for your offer. We are in a tight place so I cannot take you up on it right now. I'll just wait till we have some walnuts that I can harvest. Thank You. Alz, so this is a quirt? Like...

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I heard you can grind 'em into a powder and make viagra out of 'em.

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Smokey, really? (chuckle) Gigetty gigetty! "Swedish viagra" I was able to find this: "Antlers from Swedish reindeer, elks (moose) and deer are being marketed in Asia as a 'Swedish Viagra'. The horns...

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Antlers viagra! In a weird way this goes to confirm what Native People always thought about the love medicine of Elk.Ma Tanner: it's not a stupid question at all. It's just a quirt for horses but the...

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Oh. Thank you alz, for clearing that up. When you do your seed beading, do you use Czech or Toho? Or Dynamites? Or some other beads? I find that the Czech seed beads are just so irregular that I can't...

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Ma Tanner: I have used seed beads from Salvadori, a French company now closed. I bought some kilos of their beads and they are pretty close to the old originals. Now I was lucky enough to get an old...

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Wow! 35 lbs! That's alot of beads! I will check out Beadmatch. Thanks Alz. Ma

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