My neighbor makes a ton of bed quilt/comforters. She asked if I had any antlers to cut up and make some two hole buttons for one of her projects. They really look nice when cut and cleaned.

What did you use to cut? Bandsaw? How many TPI? Thanks

Have you ever been around when somebody cuts them boy does it stink
But they sure look nice

I used my wife's scroll saw. It cut them like butter. It's just a cheap saw I think she paid $20 for it new quite a few years ago. And yes, it does have a bad oder when cutting. But, I did this in the fur shed some the smell fit right in!
These were small antless mostly from sheds we found.

I bought several pounds of small antler burrs off of E-bay several years ago when we built our new home.

We used them as cabinet handles on the whole house, seeing as we set the home up as a cabin type atmosphere. I simply pressured washed them off, cut them flat on the under side and drilled a hole in them for a screw to attach the burr to the outside of the cabinet door, the natural coloring of the burrs, blended in prefect with the Knotty Alder cabinets !

They really make the cabinets shine just by being small and questionable as to what they are, we always get lots of compliments about the idea !

If you sand the buttons, with some very fine grit sandpaper and then wax and buff them, they really shine. I made a bunch of antler buttons, back in the late nineties, for friends making period clothing.

Keith