North American Bull Moose

The Moose Crew
Thanks guys for helping me get The Moose onto the trailer. Couldn't have done it without each of you

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Myself and Dwayne Fosseen, holding antlers, CEO of http://www.mirenco.com/ ,
thanks Dwayne for letting me borrow your real moose antlers for this project

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Day 3.
Very windy and dry day. It's difficult to spray with bleach today, without getting it all over myself.

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Day 2.
A lot of rain today, I added salt whenever it momentarily quit raining. I'm fixing the deer in the background for someone. I think I'll make one in the same style, only I'll make it Iowa size - corn fed.

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1 day of rusting. At this point, I've gone thru 2.5 gallons of bleach and 1 salt container. The quantities of each will get smaller and smaller as the rusting progresses. The eyes are covered with black tape, they will be painted gloss black later.
You can see where the pieces are welded together, because the weld material rusts a little faster than the base metal

Now to start rusting, using bleach and table salt. I'll post a picture each day until it's completely rusted.

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Sitting on a 4' x 4' table, this antler looks very big and it is.

Using the wire welder, I ran quick beads on the antler for texture.

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Boris The Buffalo, watching the progress. I've never used an armature for any of my work but it's necessary for the antlers to be even close to the same size. The top picture shows the eventual finish for the antlers.