Ivories

Jake_Sorensen · Dec 15, 2003

just curious do you or did any of you guys pull the Ivories out or your elk?

Jake

Negissimo · Dec 15, 2003

Oh yeah! That's part of the trophy of getting an elk! Gotta get the ivories!

Jake_Sorensen · Dec 15, 2003

okay whats the best way to that yall have found to get them all cleaned up ie. get peices of the gums of and all that other stuff I was thinking of trying to boil them and get off but I don't know. any help would be appreciated thanks!

Jake

4_Plesur · Dec 15, 2003

On all the elk I've killed (2) I've scrapped as much gum and crap as I could and then I put the teeth in chewing tobacco and let it sit for about a year. Try it! It really brings out the color and then take them and have a ring made.

nmelk13 · Dec 15, 2003

Easiest way I have found is to take a knife and jam it into the gum right next to the Ivory and pull back and pop it out...

dakotakid · Dec 15, 2003

The ivories are the first things that come out. Boiling works fine for cleaning them up, have also heard the tobacco trick before but have never tried it yet.

Mike

Jake_Sorensen · Dec 15, 2003

LAST EDITED ON Dec-15-03 AT 05:13PM (MST)[p]how much would it cost to have a ring made with one of them? and does anyone know anyone in Salt Lake that Makes them? How exactly does the tobacco thing work and is there a certain brand or type that works best?

Jake

dakotakid · Dec 15, 2003

Ive heard that a can of Cope works fine. Heres a link to a place in Park City. Prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!

http://www.parkcityjewelers.com/elk_ivory_jewelry.asp

Mike

supersider34 · Dec 15, 2003

I have found the best way to clean them up is as soon as I kill it I take them out first then cut as much of the gums off then they go staight into my pocket. When I get back to camp I carry them around with some change in my pocket and this cleans them up to a shine. This does not take the blood and stuff off but it makes them shine.
Here is also a website for a awesome ring maker for elk ivories
http://www.jensen-jewelers.com/fall2001/elk/
Here are my ivories off this bull.

IDkTm · Dec 15, 2003

Not only does my family pull ivories out of the elk we get, but we also make it a habitat to get them out of any winter kills we find as well.

Chesterwyo · Dec 15, 2003

I've found the best way to get ivories out without getting gum material all over them is to carry a piece of 3 inch PVC pipe in your backpack. The piece only needs to be long enough to fit in an elk's mouth, right after the kill before the animal gets stiff. Put the piece of pipe in the mouth of the elk so that the teeth are straddleing the pipe, then take a good solid stick and whack the elk on the nose, the teeth pop right out and there is no gums stuck to them. Give it a try it really does work!!

CHESTER

Jake_Sorensen · Dec 16, 2003

I figured most people did take the Ivories, I know my dad did I all his elk that he has gotten, so I took them outta my bull and I must say it was a pain in butt, I wish I would heard of these ways before but I haden't and all my dad said was if you want the teeth you better get them out your self. But some guy that's not totally anti hunting told me I should have at least had enough respect for the animal and not pulled his teeth out and that just didn't make any sense and so I wondered how many people did this, cause I don't think its disrespectful.

Jake.

marlinmark · Dec 16, 2003

I removed the "whistlers/ivories" from my elk this year. It was easy. After I goofed around with my lockblade for a minute I grabbed a meat cleaver and set it next to the tooth pointing down into the jaw and hammered the cleaver down a bit. Same thing on the other side of the tooth. Grab the tooth and pry it out. Repeat on the other side. 2 minutes and there out. A big bowie or camp knife would work too.

Hadn't heard of the cope/snuff trick though. I brought the teeth to a simmer for about 3 minutes and pulled them out. It was very easy to get all of the meat off with my thumbnail then.

Mark

"When there's lead in the air, there's hope."

hedges · Dec 16, 2003

I've always know elk had ivory teeth but which ones are they?

Pappabull · Dec 17, 2003

There are two or them and they are on the top of the mouth about a third of the way back. One on each side.

I get them out with my hunting knife, clean them off good and then carry them in my pocket with change and everything else and that tends to clean them up.

Pappabull

ELKMASTER101 · Dec 17, 2003

KNIFE ALONG SIDE CUT UP THRU GUMS,
wiggle it back and forth and out they com.
my daughter is a licenesed gemoligest,
and a practicing silver smithy.
she designs,and makes jewelry.
one of a kind items,
and thats where my ivories go.

shashzhiin · Dec 17, 2003

Could you please elaborate a touch on what the piece of PVC should be, and on the procedure for this... Sounds like this could be a neat trick.

hedges · Dec 17, 2003

Okay but how do I tell which ones they are the ivory teeth. Elk have 6 molers on the top and no front top teeth.

oldoregon · Dec 17, 2003

Its easy, they are big and pretty, they are like tusk. the fartest teth forward on the jawline.

Later Yall!!!!

UGAhunter · Dec 17, 2003

I always cut the ivorys from my elk. A jeweler told me to never boil the ivory's, it can ruin them! I have had a couple of rings and earings made by Steve who runs Blue Sky Jewelry in Idaho. You can mail him the Ivory (strait from the mouth, don't bother cleaning them up), and he will make the jewelry and mail it back. Very reasonable prices last time I had him do it. The website is http://www.blueskyjewelry.com/

NUNYA · Dec 17, 2003

O-O, LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slu · Dec 17, 2003

" the fartest teth", kid you crack me up!

supersider34 · Dec 17, 2003

Hedges they are on the top where the fangs normally would be. Right up front. You will see them when you look. Look at the pics I posted and if you take a mature bull or cows this is what they would look like.

ELKMASTER101 · Dec 18, 2003

A GOOD BULL, SAY A (6) POINTER,
will have 12 ivories one on the tip of each tine.
you start on the bottom brow tines. carfully using a small huscarvara, of steel chain saw, and make a sergical cut about 9/16 from the tip.
have your hunting partner place his triger finger there as a guide for the blade to follow.
its inportant to get a 78 degree slope on the cut.
this will ensure you of the best vallue.
after cutting all 12 tips, use septic, allum to stop the bleading from your partners finger, or fingers.
alow blood to penitrate tips to give tru conture.

ELKMASTER101 · Dec 31, 2003

now you have to admit that was funny
but true.
just ask lefty.

AZMULEYHUNTR · Jan 4, 2004

The best way I found to get the Ivories clean is to first pick off any loose gum material. Then get a small sandwitch bag fill it with sand place the Ivories in the sand and put the whole thing in the glove box of your truck. The vibration will polish the ivories real nice.

Jason

Growler · May 18, 2004

I made a sweet necklace, I wear it everyday and it gives me a mental break everytime I need one.

How do I post pictures, because I just scanned it in???

Troy

Flick 'em & Stick 'em

mtmuley · May 18, 2004

LAST EDITED ON May-18-04 AT 06:44PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON May-18-04 AT 06:40?PM (MST)

All you need to do is remove them from the elks mouth, and then scrape off any remaining tissue with a knife. Done it to every ivory tooth since I was 13 years old. If you are having jewelry made, the jeweler probably knows what to do. mtmuley

RELH · May 18, 2004

It's mounted in 14K gold and on the key chain to my 68 Mustang.

RELH

Growler · May 19, 2004

I just figured out how to post pictures, after I read the "How to post pictures" link that was staring me in the face with big bold red print.

Here's the neck lace that I made.

Flick 'em & Stick 'em

Co_Elk_Hunter · May 19, 2004

I've heard of boiling them but never of the chew can trick. You said put them in for a year. Does it make a difference if the snuff is dried up? I know I lost a can in my car once and it was all dry by the time I found it like a week later.