How to REPAIR ANTLERS using Apoxie sculpt! ***SUPER EASY*** WHITETAIL TAXIDERMY!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Showing my process repairing broken deer antlers. Includes texturing and painting! No intimidation necessary!
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Do you have a list of the paints you used?
@@steveneastman-t8u in the description of the video, there is a link to my Amazon store. It will have every paint that I use with the links that will send you straight to them 👍
Great job@@steveneastman-t8u
Excellent job,looks authentic.👍
Just wanted to share a tip. There is a min wax stain pen at lowes that is a perfect match for staining antlers,antler repairs with epoxy sculpt. I cant remember the exact xolor but when it come@ to me ill holler back.I love your videos and everything about your deal. You do great work
You do exceptional work i've been doing taxidermy twenty four years, you do not charge enough
Thank you! I will definitely be increasing prices now that I feel my quality is worth the extra. If it wasn't for this channel and my affiliate sales, I would have gone up already.
Ok, I watched a few of these now, my eyes need a break..
I just hope that I love doing these when I do finally get started.. Been my dream since I was in my twenties and I’m now 52, so I need to get it started
You put a lot of love in your work. And it shows!
I am glad I found this channel. As an wildlife painter I am finding these anatomical videos really interesting. Another art form for sure. Great work!
Thank you!
Man these videos are awesome. Always been interested in Taxidermy. Thanks for explaining in such detail.
My favorite channel. Once again Great Work! I tell people all the time that these mounts are going to be up on the wall. They are not meant to be stared at a foot away. This deer repair will look completely natural & unnoticable 5-15 feet away
If you would add a little dawn to your water it will help the epoxy not to stick to your hands and help you to smooth out your apoxy. I mount fish and this tip was passed on to me. Really helpful.
Enjoyed your video and thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with your subscribers.
Awesome info! Thanks!
That is unreal, I can’t believe how good that looks
I have a 10 point dead head I found that I want to restore and mount upside down as a hunting gear rack that this will be a good reference for, thanks a million for the detailed video
Very nice work, and I admire your patience
You sir are an artist if I hadn't seen the whole repair with my own eyes compliments of your video I would never have known that was broken absolutely amazing eye for color this is the 3rd or 4th video I've watched and I'm hooked your are one of the best taxidermist I've watched work that's beautiful art
Thank you!
Great work brother
Excellent! Thanks for taking your time to do these videos.
Just saw this video, all i can say is WOW!
Thank you
Love your videos I'm just getting started into taxidermy and your videos are extremely helpful I recently had to repair a set of antlers and had the same issue of the wire twisting and I walked away for a while and come back with a different plan I used Q-Bond it's a a powder base with a glue that u put overt the powder that sets up immediately I used that to set my wire so it didn't move while I was using the apoxy sculpt.
Great idea!
Beautiful work sir!
I’ve done many antler rebuilds and this looks fantastic. Great technique.
Thank you!
You did very good job.
Fantastic work…..and great presentation…thoroughly enjoyed it 😎
Thank you!
Great job on the antler repair!!!!
I just tuned into an episode of bob ross…. Joking but I love the content and you do amazing work!
Hahaha! Thank you. I've been told that and I'm glad I can make people feel like they can accomplish a mount without the intimidation you get from some how to instructionals.
I've used white apoxie sculpt & colored it with blood. Keep some in the freezer when you gut a deer. Walnut hulls work ok but blood is the best match I've found. Probably because the velvet is bloody. Rub on a little dirt to blend it in & it's all natural & really fast.
Thank you for this video. Trying to fix my first buck antler myself for a antler mount
I love your videos!
I am an artist and sculptor of mainly wildlife, and I have been interested in taxidermy since I was a little kid.
After watching your awesomely informative videos, I am going to mount my first deer very soon.
As a sculptor, I would like to offer a couple of tips for rebuilding the broken antlers.
I would use some 5 minute epoxy to "glue in" the wire armature into the base antler so it stays put for you. Then, after that is set and cured, wrap a small Guage wire around the thick armature wire...around and around, do it messily but tightly all the way to the tip and then back down to the base, criss crossing up and back and cut the thin wire off at the base and tuck the end in. This will give the apoxie sculpt something to adhere to and stop twisting around on the main wire. It will also keep the apoxie sculpt from sagging down while it is curing.
I do this on the entire armature when creating a sculpture. It really helps, and I believe it will help you out a lot.
Thank you for all of your hard work and sharing it all with us!
Awesome tip! Thank you!
That’s good work, I’m getting into this slowly, thanks for the info.
Thanks for the video.That is a helluva nice job you did there 👍
Thank you
That came out great! Another productive technique learned! These videos are very helpful to me sir. Thank you again.
Yessir! Thanks for watching!
Much respect.... pretty dang awesome
Very cool and knowledgeable
Keep on the good work.
best regards from Portugal.
This man is the Bob Ross of Taxidermy
Happy little deer
This is a great video! Thank you so much!
No problem! Thank you
That was awesome! Very cool video thank you
Excellent video! I love the finger painting. Never thought of that. Thank you so much for this class!!
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful job!!!
Really good antler repair! ..would be good to see a video on the details of finishing the back of a pedestal mount if you could sometime. Thanks.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Man that's awesome good work brother..
Thank you!
Man U are good I never thought it would turn out right if you didn’t know it was ever missing you wouldn’t know
Thank you
Casting tines for repair works great for me
Awesome man
This video may be long but it has the best advice in it.
Yeah I could have edited it way better and still gotten the point across. It was back before I knew what I was doing trying to make a video (still learning) 😂
I guess the antlers were broken before this Buck was shot weren’t they? Awesome job! Thanks for taking the time posting these. Have you ever had a matched set of shed antlers mounted on another head. Could you make a video of how you would do that? Thanks again!!
Yes they were. I've never done sheds, but I can do a vid of how to mount them. I'll write that one down for a future vid!
Looks damn good amigo
Thank you!
Enjoy your video 👍
how about the brow tine repair cause they have groves and bumps thats what i would like to see done but i do like how you did the main beamand th claw very helpful.
I'm actually working on a vid showing that now. Probably be several weeks before I can get it done, but it will show everything
What color apoxie sculpt is best for deer antlers?Do you mix any colors with it before mixing?How do you get the repaired antler to look good(not repaired)??
I paint the entire repair. I have used natural and brown apoxie sculpt, and prefer the brown. When I am modeling the antler, I work all the texture in with a modeling tool, and the brown creates more of a shadowed look than the natural did when I paint the highlights
Do you put a base coat and then stain it or how do you do it?
@@stevechance4422 I use a light base coat to try and match the rack, then paint the low spots darker shades and the high spots light
Thanks so much for your replies . I've got 9 deadheads and two that are stuck together from fighting that I'm trying to restore.
Hey man. Love the content. Wow that looks great. Where are you from? I’m guessing Mississippi, Louisiana area? Possibly Alabama.
Cullman Alabama
I’d like to shoulder mount sheds. You know of a good way to mount sheds to the head? Was thinking of using Clay and apoxie sculpt…would that last you think since nothing would be screwed to the form?
You can buy a fake skull plate from most taxidermy suppliers that has 2 posts that can be epoxied into drilled bases of sheds and then the cap can be used like the original 🤙
I use fix it sculpt and it drys a bone white then I use minwax wood stain and just play with it till I get it matching good
Nice! I'll have to try that
@@thecedarridgechronicles yeah I really like the way it blends in and looks natural
Awesome job like aways
Thank you!
How well does the epoxy bond the antler bone? Is it ever possible for it to break free and separate?
Very well. With the wire inside the beam and the epoxy spread just over each side it is a very strong attachment
Start to finish this took 90 mins. And you’ve done it several times, so have probably picked up Speed through trial/error and experience. You have your base price mount- about what extra do you charge for a repair such as this ?
I actually do it for free because I get paid for the videos
I got this same epoxy but I didn’t see that brown colored one. Do you have have a link? Thanks for your videos man! Awesome work!
Absolutely! It is in the description of this video
I am a Portrait artist and have been wanting to try and do a mount for a long time. Do you ever have any cape and antlers you would sell me or don't need?
I don’t, but you can sometimes find antlers at flea markets and thrift stores and can get a cape from a local deer processor
Never understood why people like the antlers rebuild if they break off tines . I just like it to look like it when I shot it but that’s just me. Great job on doing it though
well done sir :)
@text77 is this legit?
There is no repairing, what it has it has when you shoot, it’s what it is!!!! lol
Looks amazing tho!!!
Can you put parts of another rack on one that was broke
Yes you can. Works even better if you have one that matches well 👍
Why would you do it that way? I take a point from another antler and attach with wire (like you do). Then you only have to patch at the joint. I use Sculpall 2 part epoxy. It is off white. Easier to make it darker than to make it lighter in color.
That works great if you have extra antler laying around. Also, starting with a dark color leaves a darker look in the low spots of the rebuild and the high spots are easier to highlight
Matte or satin, I’m attempting this myself. Thx
I use matte and then buff the paint lightly once it is fully cured. Satin would probably do well too though. Antler does have a little shine to it.
I have a set I shot this year needs repair. Would you contact me to see about shipping them to you? I like the video and like the work you did. I plan on European mounting it as well. Maybe have you do it all?
I’m sorry I only do local pickup. Thanks though!
Where are you finding the dark Apoxie sculpt putty? thanks
There is a link in the video description that will take you straight to it 👍
It would be nice if we could see what your doing all we can see is the mixing tray.
Yeah for about 8 minutes of a 1 hour 28 minute video. Besides it's a nice mixing tray.
Next time superglue your wire into the antler first so it won't move around on you
I’m think about having a taxidermy do that to my biggest buck should I
Yeah especially if you had a pic of him before he broke off
That does look really good what kind of paint you using
I use a combination of airbrush paint and acrylic
We’re are you located ? How much will it cost
I'm in Cullman Alabama. I usually charge 20 per tine and main beam prices vary
He was a 10 but he broke a tine and some of his beam
No shit
You couldn't use an antler stain for that
Possibly. I've never tried it with apoxie sculpt. I don't know that it is porous like bone.