Crystalizing Antlers

[piedlover79]

Crystallizing cicadas? I will have to look that up! Sounds very cool!

Edit: I looked him up! Looks very much like what I'm doing! I love his blue alligator skull!

[Futile]

Crystallizing cicadas? I will have to look that up! Sounds very cool!

Edit: I looked him up! Looks very much like what I'm doing! I love his blue alligator skull!

Yeah, I'm very partial to all of his skulls, since I'm not particularly fond of bugs myself. His moths are pretty killer though, and it looks like he just did a crystallized snake skeleton which is to die for.

Another thing that I'd love to get my hands on are one of his crystallized bat skeletons. I've got a friend of mine with a love of both bats and crystals. He's already got two skeletons of his own, but I can't imagine that he has a crystal encrusted skeleton yet.

So, what made you decide to get into crystallized art form? It's such a cool and interesting thing, I'd love to know what made you start.

[piedlover79]

It's very cool!

I got the idea to get into crystallizing antlers because I made friends with an artist who draws animals with crystals (she did my tattoo a Silver Fox with crystals). So I looked into if I could put crystals in taxidermy...the rest is history.

[Futile]

Oh, that's really cool! I'd love to get into it myself, I love crystals and already have a small collection of different stones and crystals.

[piedlover79]

Thanks! Crystals are awesome!

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Crystal Encrusted ram horns with larger quatrz details. These are not as stable as my deer antlers the crystals are larger but also less well adhered to the surface so I am going to have to add a coat of resin to keep it from falling apart.

[piedlover79]

[dr del]

Would roughening the area you want them to stick to before growing them help?

[piedlover79]

The surface of the ram horns was naturally so much rougher than the deer antler that I was surprised that the crystals were less attached, although I did let them grow larger.

I have now added a thick seal coat to the horns that has not only really attached the crystals but has had the added bonus of making them more clear and less white. Now it's also waterproof!

[Fraido]

So freaking awesome.

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[piedlover79]

Thank you!! I'm having so much fun!