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1st antler repair please critique

Discussion in 'Beginners' started by charleyd, Nov 26, 2010.

  1. Nov 26, 2010 #1
    charleyd

    charleyd New Member

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    The guy said he shot the brow off last gun seasson and then when he took it out of the freezer after a year, he hit it on the side of the freezer and broke it off. I used threaded rod for the main beam and wire for the brow tine. I used devcon 2 ton epoxy with fiberglass for to set the rod and wire. I used apoxie sculpt to rebuild the antler. In hind sight I wish I would have started with a material closer to the natural antler color for an epoxy. Please critique and any suggestions would be appreciated.
     

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  3. Nov 26, 2010 #2
    charleyd

    charleyd New Member

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    more pics
     

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  5. Nov 26, 2010 #3
    charleyd

    charleyd New Member

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    and more
     

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  6. Nov 26, 2010 #4
    uzabow

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    Looks very good....I always use bondo and Magic Sculpt. Never even thought about that epoxy.
     
  7. Nov 26, 2010 #5
    Curt

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    Looks Great. Nice job.
     
  8. Nov 26, 2010 #6
    kav

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    that looks really good you can't even tell it was broke good stuff
     
  9. Nov 28, 2010 #7
    bpbigperm

    bpbigperm New Member

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    looks great, nice job. How much time did that take?
     
  10. Nov 28, 2010 #8
    Matt

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    I think you did a great job! Nice job in re-creating the detail as well.
     
  11. Nov 28, 2010 #9
    coonhollow

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    very nice!
     
  12. Nov 28, 2010 #10
    Mr.T

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    Looks good enough.
     
  13. Nov 28, 2010 #11
    backcountrychad

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    Awesome work!!
     
  14. Nov 29, 2010 #12
    Frank from PAA

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    Clint is this your first? You did one heck of a job. The customer should be pleased. Frank.
     
  15. Nov 29, 2010 #13
    stargazer644

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    Hi Clint D, Thanks for posting, that was a great repair job. Some good and easily followed pics. Wishing you well, stargazer.
     
  16. Dec 1, 2010 #14
    charleyd

    charleyd New Member

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    Thank you all for the compliments. It took me about 5 hrs to do the whole job. I restarted the paint job more times then I could count. I kept going over the paint with a very watered down black umber polytranspar to try and tone down the brightness of the Folk Art (walmart) paints that I was using to try and get the bone color. Finally I started spraying a coat of clear every few layers to protect my progress. I hope the next one is much faster now that I have a little better idea of how to do the paint.