Goat horns scales from animal to my scales - vegetarians look away

[cleanshaved]

I have made a start on making a set or two of Goat Horn scales from animal to scales, so this may be the longest rescale project in B&B history.
Today I grabed a few heads. just the best of what I could see in the short time I had free.
The car smells of stinky goat, guess the dogs won't complain when i take them for a ride but SWMBO well....I might just have to leave her at home....
I cut the horns off at home. Will leave these in the guarage till the weekend when I will boil them to get the core out.
then the waiting starts................ about year later I should be good to go with cutting to size etc.

[Blade Boy]

That's Hardcore!

[Mischka]

Was it really necessary to post photos of decapitated goat heads? The "in-your-face" gore is offensive to me. The horns alone would have sufficed.

[cleanshaved]

Was it really necessary to post photos of decapitated goat heads? The "in-your-face" gore is offensive to me. The horns alone would have sufficed.

sorry you are offended..... but where do you think there horns come from................ fail to see the in your face gore BUT
I will remove the photo

[Mischka]

sorry you are offended..... but where do you think there horns come from................ fail to see the in your face gore BUT
I will remove the photo

I'm 100% certain that every member on this web site knows where goat horns originate

[cleanshaved]

I'm 100% certain that every member on this web site knows where goat horns come from

really a photo of a goat head is not gore..... It was the head alone not the kill process or cutting off of the head.
the photo was added for flow of process and for no other reason. The photo was remove promtly on you complaint.

again sorry that you found the photos offensive

[Legion]

OK. The icky pictures have been removed. All is well now and we can move on.

I wait with interest to see what the next steps in the process will be. Will it really take a year?

[cleanshaved]

OK. The icky pictures have been removed. All is well now and we can move on.

I wait with interest to see what the next steps in the process will be. Will it really take a year?

I have read bone and horn needs to dry for at least a year or warping can happen. will try a find some more data on the subject.
any advice would be much welcome as I have never done this before.

[Legion]

Neither have I. I once found a big rams horn in the bush when I was a kid, and took it home. My mother wasn't too happy with it.

I'm not sure where it went, but I wish I'd kept it now.

[mdunn]

Let's stay on topic please. We're all friends here.

Dont let someone else get your goat. (sorry, sorry, couldn't help it)

[cleanshaved]

Let's stay on topic please. We're all friends here.

Dont let someone else get your goat. (sorry, sorry, couldn't help it)

nah

[Legion]

Let's stay on topic please. We're all friends here.

Dont let someone else get your goat. (sorry, sorry, couldn't help it)

Sigh. There's always one in every crowd.

[life2short1971]

B-a-a-a-a-a-a-d joke!

[Blade Boy]

really a photo of a goat head is not gore..... It was the head alone not the kill process or cutting off of the head.
the photo was added for flow of process and for no other reason. The photo was remove promtly on you complaint.

again sorry that you found the photos offensive

Yeah, couldn't have just carefully clipped the horns off and let goats run free

[plpenn]

If you allow the horns to dry you will be able to remove the horn "husk " without boiling. That was my experience anyway. Good luck with this I have had similar ideas.

[cleanshaved]

Yeah, couldn't have just careful clipped the horns off and let goats run free

do you mean like this?

[mdunn]

Let's stay on topic please.

Good thinking, mdunn. Let's us all stay on topic.

[professorchaos]

And I thought goat horn fell from heaven like manna, sunshine and dwarfs.

[gearchow]

he said dwarfs

I would think that you could accelerate drying out the horns much in the same way lumber is kiln dried - a sustained higher then ambient but not too hot heat?

-jim

[ladykate]

he said dwarfs

I would think that you could accelerate drying out the horns much in the same way lumber is kiln dried - a sustained higher then ambient but not too hot heat?

-jim

I mentioned that in the other thread about goat horn scales and drying. I was thinking something on the left side of 100C (a complete WAG). It would still take a few days so doing it in the kitchen would be a no-no. In my other adventure/hobby (which also has acquisition disorder so... I'm really a sick puppy) I have a drying cabinet but I would hate to dry the horns in there, too. It is made of wood and I bet it would smell like the Veg - forever.

Soooo... even with my cool (but not unique) idea, I would probably still set them up in the attic and let them dry there. Come to think of it... that might be a very good spot since it stays pretty warm and it's ventilated. Just have to take them down in the Winter but by then they could probably go in the drying cabinet.

Sources for this stuff? It is too late to find fallen antlers in our area. They are probably there but you don't want to go there... the woods are lovely, dark and deep - and filled with bugs and stuff that creeps.

I was looking on eBay and there are antlers for sale for such things but most are not suitable (at least I'm not sure they are suitable). They seem to be reasonably priced, though. Our local dog emporium has deer antler chews which are expensive but the large ones should make several scales. So... for $20 you should be able to make two sets of scales if you are pure of heart.

Anyhoo... I look forward to how these turn out.

Oh... and just to contribute off topic... I don't mind blood... the current picture looks like my bathroom sink every morning... ;-}