Bling Inlays....Elk teeth??

[DaveT]

A very good friend of mine gave me a set of elk teeth. (Bugler's) Not really knowing what to do with them I was thinking what would they look like inlayed in the stock of a flinter?

Too much bling?
Not PC....but that's not a big deal to me.
Will it look like an elk bit the flintlock?

And if I do this, what would be the preferred method of keeping them in the stock? Bedding compound? Superglue? Just have a live elk keep biting the stock?

Thanks for your input.

 

[Col. Batguano]

What style of a flinter? It's really more of a Rocky Mountain animal or circa 1830-1850 sort of thing. If you put them in the wrong place, that decision can really come back and bite you in the butt.

 

[Pete G]

Teeth make a better necklace.

 

[user 48679]

Or buttons for shirts and possibles bag flap closures...….

 

[DaveT]

Welp, I only have 3 flinters. A pistol, a T\C Hawken, and a Leman.

 

[Ames]

Grind them flat for plains rifle key escutcheons.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Find a jeweler and mount them in a ring, they look very nice that way. It is your call but I would not inlay them in a gun stock.

 

[DaveT]

Jewelry is always a possibility...for most. I cannot wear rings or wrist watches because of my medical condition. (Yeah...sounds silly, but it's true) Rings and wrist watches put pressure on my wrist\finger and after an hour or so, my wrist or finger will feel like one big toothache.

I had to quite wearing rings\watches when I was 47.

 

[user 48679]

I (like others here, I'm sure) find it difficult to remember when I was 47...……

 

[Phil Coffins]

This is what I’ve done with elk ivory, I agree that mounting them in a stock wouldn’t suit my taste.
47? If I remember correctly I was still in high school.
IMG_0702 by Oliver Sudden, on Flickr

 

[deermanok]

One of my rifles has a star inlay, (not done by me). I think it's cool looking. Not sure if I'm feeling it for elk teeth as a inlay but to each their own.​

 

[DaveT]

Thanks Gent's. I know knife makers inlet 'em in the handles.....I just didn't know if anyone had done it in a rifle stock.

I think the teeth are safe from ending up in a rifle stock.