Cleaning deer teeth

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Tamar

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No - not dentistry:D My daughter (aged 4!) wants a necklace of deer teeth for Christmas - she's seen such a thing on a picture of a pirate. I've got a hind's head and extracted the teeth, but now need to clean them up. I've tried boiling and scrubbing, but this old thing can't have been brushing twice a day, so there is still a fair amount of plaque around. Any suggestions? I do not have access to a dental drill, and am worried that the dremmel will just wreck the tooth. Having spent quite a bit of time looking at them, the teeth are actually quite beautiful. Still not sure what her priumary school teacher will say in January! Maybe it's just her going through an early Goth stage.
 
Ideally you want to make it from the stag tusks you will need a few beasts for enough to make a necklace though, used to be a market for these for making jewelry, with those that were stained making the best price as once they were polished they had the best appearance

Used to be a German who came to Scotland once a year to travel round the estates buying up the tusks , I can remember getting as much as £7 a pair.

There are still a few individuals who make jewelry from them but in general the market has dried up, I believe due to the price of gold for settings
 
Tamar,

The brown stain around the neck of the teeth is calculus or scale, I'm afraid no amount of soaking or scrubbing will remove it. It needs to be scaled off! Have a word with your local vet or your own dentist who may well have an old scaling instrument that he/she doesn't use anymore and let them show you how to clean it off.

If you do have a dremmel....DONT use any tungsten carbide, diamond or even steel bits as these will damage the enamel. Your best bet if you cant get hold of any dental instruments is to use a knife and carefully scrape off the scale build up.......

I would offer to help but by the time you get them here I wont be able to get them back for Xmas!

DT
 
There is a lot of Wapiti teeth jewelry in the US of A on sale all the time,might be easier!



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Thanks all for the info and advice. These are the molars, rather than the tusks, so one deer provides enough for a 4yr olds necklace! The pics that johngryphon linked too are beautiful. It's rather beyond what I was envisaging (stringing a few together on a chain) but they are an inspiration for future projects.

My wife is a vet so I'll brave it and have a chat with her about scaling equipment. I was rather planning on presenting the necklace as a fait acompli, as I suspect she may not share our daughter's enthusiasm for dental based jewelry, although it is at least one step up from pink princesses or Frozen trash.
 
bogtrotter said:
Ideally you want to make it from the stag tusks you will need a few beasts for enough to make a necklace though, used to be a market for these for making jewelry, with those that were stained making the best price as once they were polished they had the best appearance

Used to be a German who came to Scotland once a year to travel round the estates buying up the tusks , I can remember getting as much as £7 a pair.

There are still a few individuals who make jewelry from them but in general the market has dried up, I believe due to the price of gold for settings
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I have a (small) bag full of these, collected over 20 years of stalking in Scotland. I'd love to have something made up using them but it's difficult to find anything that's not too ghoulish!

The photos in johngryphons links are food for thought though.
 
willie_gunn said:
I have a (small) bag full of these, collected over 20 years of stalking in Scotland. I'd love to have something made up using them but it's difficult to find anything that's not too ghoulish!
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I don't keep the ivories from the red deer, but i did when i shot my Elk, i drilled them and use them as zip pulls on my shooting bag, not too ghoulish!
Cheers
Richard
 
Will peroxide not work on them the same as a skull? Worth a bash with some of the strong 30% stuff. If all else fails - Tippex:)
 
I cleaned up some Wild boar tusks earlier in the year. I used hydrogen peroxide from the local chemist. Wrap them on in loo paper, put in a bowl and soak for a few hours - just the same as you do with a skull.
 
I'm finding that a mounted dubbing needle is good, especially for extracting the old dentine. Mrs Tamar is adamant that I am going nowhere near her vet descaling equipment. Looks like some long evenings ahead for me and a sharp knife getting the scale off. The one I have finished has polished up nicely. I wonder if you could scrimshaw them......:cuckoo:
 
I would use peroxide , I get mine from a hairdressers supplier. Get some funny looks when I go in , I don't look like the usual customer. Get the cream type , it's much better to use than the liquid as no cotton wool required particularly when used on skulls.

Funny this should come up , my 9 yr old has just made a great necklace with Muntjac teeth that I drilled for her, it looks great.
 
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