PUTRIFIED KNIFE HANDLE

[CARBABY]

I had a old 6 inch piece of Mule Deer antler that had been laying around for 3 years with the intent to use it as a stag horn hand on a knife. After reading the forum on subject moved out on The project. Soaked antler 5 days in water. Changed water every 24 hours on the soak. Pulled out the antler and drove the knife blade shaft into it. Happy to that point! HOWEVER ~ The Handle Resonated a repugnate odor and for the next week I placed it outside in the BBQ (the kind with a cover) to dry and de-stink. At ten days after mounting I applied hydrogen perioxide to exposed cut ends of the antler in hopes of curbing oder. Have also sprayed it with Fabriz. Anybody know what the magic solution is to remove the odor from this knife so I can bring it in the house. Winter is coming on and sometime I would like to use my barbeaque (BBQ) again.

 

[bwhoffman]

...seal it with clear lacquer or poly coat???
will seal it, but I dont know if that is the best way, suggestive only!

Brett

 

[bnail]

Hey DW, I don't know if this is "apples and oranges" but I had a deer hide I soaked a bit too long before I scraped it for rawhide. it stunk to high heaven while I was doing it amd retainded it's oder close to six months. The oder did however go away. perhaps all you need is time?

 

[Tinker2]

Bury it in the back yard.
It takes the smell out of skunks.
It deodorizes them.



Tinker2

 

[CARBABY]

You dig up buried dead skunks to check if they smell??? .... WE GOTTA GET YOU HELP !!!!

 

[Claude Mathis]

Bury it in the back yard.
It takes the smell out of skunks.
It deodorizes them.

Forget the tomato juice! The next time my dog gets sprayed by a skunk, I'll try burying him for a while. What do you think, a couple weeks? :haha: :winking:

 

[paulvallandigham]

May I suggest you try soaking the antler handle in quart jar, with 3% Hydrogen Peroxide, a quarter cup of baking soda, and a teaspoon of liquid soap.( your choice) Fill the jar the rest of the way with water. This is a chemical formula stumbled on by some research scientists in 1993 at the Molex Corp. in Lisle, Illinois, which they use to "de-skunk "clothes, dogs, and people. They dunked a road kill skunk in the mixture, and the strong odor immediately went away.

After soaking it for an hour, or so, I would rinse the knife off, and consider dipping it into boiled water to get all the compound and soap out of the pores. Swirl the handle around int he hot water. Then cool it down quickly in a jar of cold water. Then dry and place in the sun to dry.

The baking soda should neutralize whatever is stinking, the peroxide should kill any bacteria, and soap makes it easier to wash the first two off!

 

[skunkskinner]

1 quart 3%hydrogen peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 teaspoon liquid soap
Mix ingredients and soak skunkskin "knife" for ten minutes.It has never failed me

 

[skunkskinner]

Sorry,pauls wasent there when I looked at the thread.

 

[paulvallandigham]

Don't Apologize. Great minds think alike. I just had to find a copy of an article I keep in my materials for my hunter safety class, as this question comes up often. Perhaps with the same formula coming from two difference sources, people will actually try it. Forget tomato juice. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Coot]

Don't underestimate tomato juice. My cousin had a dog get skunked. She put him into her bathtub & gave him a good scrub with tomato juice. He then got loose before she could rinse him and ran into the living room. Where he shook. :haha: At that point, she didn't notice the smell anymore. :rotf:

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Bury it in the back yard.
It takes the smell out of skunks.
It deodorizes them.

Forget the tomato juice! The next time my dog gets sprayed by a skunk, I'll try burying him for a while. What do you think, a couple weeks? :haha: :winking:

LOL, our daughter up in Cody Wyoming just went through such, they have a blind Wire haired fox terrier. Blind or not, dog caught and killed a skunk in the back yard, the daughter and family have since been giving serious consideration to kill the pooch, after trying every concoction they could find on the Web. :rotf:

 

[rebel727]

Had a girlfriend got skunked once. She filled a bathtub with tomato juice and it didn't help her a bit. Couldn't get close to her for almost two weeks.

 

[davy]

Had a girlfriend got skunked once. She filled a bathtub with tomato juice and it didn't help her a bit. Couldn't get close to her for almost two weeks.

Dont EVEN go there gurlfriend ... uhh uhh! :shocked2: :hmm:

Davy

 

[CARBABY]

CCaul...ham and Skunkskinner ~ Thanks for the magic potion recipe. I will give it a try. As long as I don’t have to drink the potion after on Friday the 13th in the light of a full moon while rubbing a toad. ”“ I’m game.

 

[dlemaster]

Paul
That reminded me that at one time I owned a couple of Chow dogs one black and the other almost white. They managed to get sprayed by a skunk one night just after midnight. I made a trip into town and bought several cans of tomato juice and gave them a bath in it. It did lessen the smell slightly, but not much, but for the next month or so we had the prettiest pink Chow you ever saw. LOL We got several comments from neighbors and friends about the weird looking dog.

Regards, Dave

 

[bwhoffman]

Deathwind...
I remember an old trucker telling about hauling fresh fish and the related odor after off loading...
He would buy cheap coffee and sprinkle it in the trailer and sweep it around, worked for him.

You could put the knife and handle in a big ziplock or something and waste a 3# can of coffee and see what happens.

thought I'd pass this on...

Brett

 

[Bountyhunter]

The chemistry behind the soda/peroxide solution is that when mixed, they form a different compound. That compound chemically reacts to the sulfur compounds in the skunk musk. It will not do anything about the skunk odor in the air, but it will chemically neutralize the thiosulfates and thioacetates in the skunk musk, and convert them to odorless compounds. I dont know exactly how that would work with the proteins that are rotting in the antler. Best bet would be to dry it out as soon as possible, I dont think that microwaving it or putting it in an oven would be good on the antler, but air and sunshine wont hurt it. Talk to a taxidermist in your area and see what he uses on velvet antlers to "cure" them and keep them from rotting.

 

[steveh]

Don't underestimate tomato juice. My cousin had a dog get skunked. She put him into her bathtub & gave him a good scrub with tomato juice. He then got loose before she could rinse him and ran into the living room. Where he shook. :haha: At that point, she didn't notice the smell anymore. :rotf:

Actually!...If you add Vodka to the tomato juice, It's quite effective.
Errr..oh yeah...we're talkin' bout knife handles, aren't we!...Nevermind... :winking: