Some survive and some don’t. None of my filled sets have split, but about half of my unfilled ones have over time
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What does everyone do with boar or warthog tusks to prevent splitting?
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Just ask in Mycenae how they did it. After all, fairly well-preserved over 3000 years old boar tusk helmets were found in the graves.
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Just ask in Mycenae how they did it. After all, fairly well-preserved over 3000 years old boar tusk helmets were found in the graves.
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Quite a few of those are split and cracked. Someone should have been hitting them with a little wax or oil every few hundred years.
It really is interesting that some people have 40 year old tusks that have never split and some people's have split after a year.
I would guess something about their environment, like low humidity. Or maybe it is about the individual animal. I will say that it's not "What other people are doing" like implying that other people are doing something wrong. They really are prone to cracking and splitting.
Teeth in general are. A lot of predator skulls, the canine teeth split over time.
It is really interesting how some can have nothing done and not split within the same house/environment as well. Has to be individual variation in the animal to some degree. Or maybe how the skull was cleaned.
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I use bondo mixed with fiberglass resin. It will make a runny slurry then pour it into the inside of the tusk. Once it hardens you are good to go.
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Humidity is the factor.
I have had both skulls, teeth and wood gunstocks crack in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts of New Mexico and California.
I have had both skulls, teeth and wood gunstocks crack in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts of New Mexico and California.
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