Coloring bleached antlers

[blindluck]

I have a few deer sheds and a 7 pt elk shed I want to take on and color. I have a couple different colors of minwax stain I will be using. I would appreciate any tips on techniques how the process should go. Not knowing anything else I would just simply rub on with a rag and wipe off. Thanks for any advise.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Yep wipe it on. You can also use brown shoe polish.

[CamoDup]

I have always wanted to try the Wild Antler Magic but have yet to buy it.  Looks like it would work well.

https://tinesupstore.com/shop/wild-antler-magic/

[boneaddict]

There are a couple threads on here about it, but I think its the minwax gel, mix it with mud(put it on, and pack it with mud before drying), let dry then steel wool off.  Its about as natural as you will get.  If done right, you cant tell they were stained.

[lewy]

Order some deer antler magic off eBay, best stuff I've found

[blindluck]

Here we go, just painted my first antlers, the ones on the left areall natural and the ones on the right are painted.

[huntandjeep]

Looks good what did you wind up using? I've always had good results with W.A.M ( wild antler magic).

[scout/sniper]

This mount was starting to fade. I used Old English on it.
Just rub it on and wipe it off.

[blindluck]

in the end I used acrylic paint, I am excited about the results I have let people hold them and not be able to guess which ones are real vs painted.

[boneaddict]

They turned out nice.

[FSTaxidermy]

acrylic look good 

[Bean Counter]

I am going to try some oil based paints diluted by a thinner real soon and will let you al know how it goes.

[blindluck]

Problem I had with the oil based and lacquer thinner is when I restore the antler then paint the white base coat with spray paint, then start the color process with the thinned oil paints the thinner would eat away the base paint. Now I'm using acrylic. I guess I could have tried the oil based white base coat.

[blindluck]

Here is another shed I just re colored.

[Bean Counter]

Nice work, man.