Does anyone have any advice as to the best way of removing ram horns or even goat horns from the core when preparing a european mount?
Thanks in advance-Tom
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...boiling will work,BUT,you risk the chance of discoloring them. May turn them very dark and discolored.
Fill a container of water deep enough so that the Horns can be totally submurged. allow them to soak for at least a week or two,preferably outside. They WILL get stinky, worse than my tennis shoes! After you allow them to soak,take them out and put them into a plastic sack for another week.Mmmmm.....they'll smell worse than Goat or Blue cheese!Pull them out of the sack and drop them firmly on the ground and they'll pop right off.Its the safe bet,but not for the weak stomach! LOL
...boiling will work,BUT,you risk the chance of discoloring them. May turn them very dark and discolored.
Fill a container of water deep enough so that the Horns can be totally submurged. allow them to soak for at least a week or two,preferably outside. They WILL get stinky, worse than my tennis shoes! After you allow them to soak,take them out and put them into a plastic sack for another week.Mmmmm.....they'll smell worse than Goat or Blue cheese!Pull them out of the sack and drop them firmly on the ground and they'll pop right off.Its the safe bet,but not for the weak stomach! LOL
I just took the horns off of a barbarosa ram by putting it in
a microwave several times for a minute or so, and prying and
pulling on it in between times. Be careful, those babies get
hot! It took me about 20 minutes or so to get them off.
Someone mentioned that using the microwave can cause the horns
to blister, but everything worked out fine for me.
There's only 31 other times that question has been asked and answered over there.
I particularly liked the way Dave described it. Very colorful and entertaining. Jeff also reiterates caution. A point that is always welcome in my book. Thanks for giving us YOUR version of how it is done. Well done guys. Keep 'em coming! If Ken starts running out of space he can just go back and start deleting some of George's stuff. LOL
Bill K.
I soak mine in a barrel of water for 3-4 days then take a rubber amllet and "WHOMP'EM" at the bases kncking them from the cores. The soaking in water makes the horn clean easily and really loosens them from the cores..I tried microwaving them but if the hor has any thin spots in them I found it will cause the "pithe' in the ocre to bust thru it.
of any type there is the chance of blistering IF you do not drill releif holes in the horns. I do this on the back side, when bondoing back on the cores, bondo ooozes out of the holes. Wipe bondo off and hole if filled.