Munty velvet

[76thirty]

As per my other thread, shot this last night and it’s my best munty so far so would like to keep it, is there a method to “faking” the velvet or am I better off stripping everything and staining the tines afterwards for a clean look?
Thanks

 

[gaza916]

Strip it, clean the antlers then you can add some potassium permanganate but you can’t replicate the rubbed off ‘shiny’ look you’d get from clean antlers. I had to do that with the top one in the photo.

 

[76thirty]

Strip it, clean the antlers then you can add some potassium permanganate but you can’t replicate the rubbed off ‘shiny’ look you’d get from clean antlers. I had to do that with the top one in the photo. View attachment 264474

I’ve seen people do similar and then rub sticks against them if a scotchpad to make then wear down a bit

 

[steve109]

As per my other thread, shot this last night and it’s my best munty so far so would like to keep it, is there a method to “faking” the velvet or am I better off stripping everything and staining the tines afterwards for a clean look?

 

[steve109]

Keep the original velvet on

 

[76thirty]

Keep the original velvet on

Considered that but wasn’t sure how it would hold up etc