Turkey Spur Display

[GSLAM95]

I posted this on another forum and thought I would share it over here as well.  There were a lot of hrs put into both hunting and putting this together. 
After cleaning up my spurs I would always throw them in a drawer until I thought I would come up with some way of displaying them.*
Well last week has been that time to get something done with them.  I cut 6' lengths of Suede lace, threaded some wooden beads on in-between each spur and I am using them for window trim.
I had some with the skin & scales still on so I stripped that after letting them soak in hot water with Dawn soap for a couple of days, I wire wheeled the bone with my die grinder and painted them with a hammer tone copper paint, buffed the spur and added boiled linseed oil to the spur itself like I do all of them after normal cleaning.  I only did one strand of 50 like that and left the other strands natural.

The lighting in the man cave is bad but here is the general idea..

[archery1]

wow
what a collection!!!!!!!!

[vaturkey]

Impressive !   

[pshelnutt]

That's Awesome!!

[shuey270]

Thats alot of turkey sandwiches!

[Basser69]

D@MN!

[Crappiepro]

Nice collection of spurs! I like what you ya did with them too!

[remmy1187]

That is alot of dead birds there, awesome!!!

[K9Doc]

What's the boiled linseed oil used for?  Mine all look almost exactyly like your, but I dont use any linseed oil.  Gimme some tips!

[schuylkillspur]

Thats a lot of spurs. I had a similar idea,  But I like the way you put the beads between the spurs. Nice

[Gobble!]

holy crap thats a pile of dead birds 

[mikejd]

Wow, I dont think frank perdue killed that many turkeys. lol. nice work and nice collection.

[GSLAM95]

What's the boiled linseed oil used for?  Mine all look almost exactyly like your, but I dont use any linseed oil.  Gimme some tips!

If you have ever had the spur itself dry out and get a chalked look to it applying a coat or two of boiled linseed oil will usually bring it back to life and darken it back up.
I now strip my spurs to the bone, boil them until the cap will easily pop off, mix high strength peroxide pool shock and borax into a paste and coat the spur, let it set a week or two, rinse and scrape mixture off, let dry over night, glue spur cap back on and put 1 coat of boiled linseed oil on spur cap only and let dry.  I then take a hand towel usually to simply buff to a nice finish.
Once the above is done they will look the same for years to come as the boiled linseed oil protects them from what I call chalking/peeling.  Hope this helps....Good luck chasing those long beards this year..

[cannonball]

Nice collection!

[Timber Chicken]

I like it alot.