hello,can anyone tell me how to regain the color back into a set of sun bleach antlers,and filling all the small cracks in them
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If you go to search and type bleached antlers your answer(s) are there. But in brief here goes. Paint beached antlers with white or light beige paint, let dry a week, then stain with antler stain. I am presently tying Krylon's "Make It Swade" Berber, a tip from Larry Reese on his Taxidermy Web site. Have not applied stain yet so can't say more. Good luck.
Mike, I use sal soda to boil off and moth proof my skull caps, and while doing one a few weeks ago I left the shop for a few minutes and the cap slid down into the solution and it bleached out the whole base of the antler burrs up to the G1's. So after mounting the head I wire brushed the antler down lightly and painted the whole antler with the stain (heavy) and allowed it to dry. Then go back over the antlers with a fine wire brush till you get the natural look back. Then hit the antler lightly with a little wetlook gloss and it done. This really worked well for me and my customer was very happy.$$$$