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How do I best maintain a butt plate made of horn? Can I put stock oil on it? The gun is almost 100 years old and haven't been used (or maintained)for more than 25 years.
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Remove the butt plate and allow to soak in a coat of neatsfoot oil for a day or so before replacing. Mink oil might also might help. Ken
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Always store the gun muzzle down, to keep the insects from chewing it...
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Both oils may benefit the horn. Just do not over do the treatment. You don't want it to soften very much.
This is the very first that I have heard that one may wish to "treat" horn. I have only kept it clean.
Remember that this is, even organic, a dead material. Feeding the fibres is BS.
Best,
John
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All good suggestions. These folks deal in ivory and horns. This is their recommendation for restoring the oils to a piece. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page: http://www.boonetrading.com/WorkingInstructions.htmlPete
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Another question related to this topic: I have a horn buttplate with a few worm holes, approx. 1/8" wide and about the same deep. Is there a good way to fill them?
thanks
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I have used Acraglass with floc and black pigment powder to fill beetle holes. I fill the holes with the epoxy on a teethpick, cover with tape and let it cure with the butt down. After hardening remove the tape, file, sand with a hard flat block, burnish with steel wool. Ihen apply Truoil, let it dry for a day and burbish/polish with 0000steel wool, this may take more than one coat. I have used this technique on many, many pieces of horn buttpalates and grip caps, carefully dune the repair is hard to see. Jerry
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I recall reading in the Medieval Meathead Times, shortly after the latest discussion of stock finishing with cottonseed oil, that an overnite soaking in sheep urine would restore and/or preserve horn grip caps and butt plates like no other method.
HTH
WtS
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As a FYI, horn is a protein, commonly known as keratin, a lot like your fingernails.
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Dang it, Wonko, I never shoulda got rid of that last sheep. Now what, pee in a cup and soak it in that?
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