Another Stage to the Velvet Antler Project

Before I need to take the velvet antler out of the deep freeze I need a plaque to mount them on. I looked and looked for diagrams to make one but could not find what I was looking for so I started to do the next best thing which is what I think I am good at. I started to make out by looking at a picture and coming up with my own dimensions. Everything again was made out of scrap I had in the work shop.

First step was to draw out the main piece and try to get both side to look symetrical.

Once I had one side it was easy to match the other.

Flip the cut out over and trace that to cutout.

 

Mounting to the cross piece

Working on the wall piece, which was my design

Back piece mounted and the skull temporarilly mounted to see how it looked.

straight on look

 Then what I did was sand it all down which brought out some of the nice pine grain so I decided to polyeurthane it cleat gloss. It has one coat and this morning I will be putting the second coat. I'm not sure yet just how many coats yet.

This was the picture I used as a model for mine.