Ed said:

Joe

 

Can’t wait - sounds like a great experiment.  I will get the blank close to the
right size then weigh it, and get some professional opinions if it varies much
from the 50 grams or so of an ebony blank.

 

 

Ed Minch

 

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Yes, this will be fun.  I’m pretty charged up too.  Love this kind of thing.  I
wish I played steel string…

 

Meanwhile, Scotty the Happy camper or somebody – I also have the rough roots of
the same antlers which would make superb knife scales or full handles for
carving knives.  What advice can you offer about:

 

a.	Best way to cut and mount either as scales or as handle ins the round;
b.	How to stain the antlers?

 

Cheers!

 

Joe