My Collection Has Been Attacked By Horn Eating Bugs!!

did you every try to vacuum pack the whole thing for a few days to take away the air from them? (choke, i'm a dead bug.)
vern
 
Bummer - makes you wish you had access to a gamma ray steriliser I'll bet

I'm not too keen on the freezing thing because of condensation - although if the Brit Museum recommends it then I'm sure it would work

I had a brand new wool suit chewed up one year and now sprinkle napthalene crystals in the bottom of my knife cabinet - (and woollens storage bags and.... you get the idea) - some people object to the smell but I don't mind it and haven't had a problem with bugs since. Chinese camphor wood chests also work and don't have as strong a smell.

Mind you - I either give my clothes a quick wash or a good airing before I wear them after storage - "eau de naptha" gets you some real funny looks on the bus
 
BTW: If you buy khuks from that auction site,you should be aware of the possibility of getting your Item delivered to you with previous damage from these dermestids, or possibly fully infected.
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True; over the last year or so I'd noticed a couple listed there which had evidently been attacked by something (wondered what it might be) as per description.

Did buy a horn-handled WW2 carry from the USA, via that site -- but it was ok.
 
cybrok said:
Could you post pics of what an attacked handle looks like? Maybe some other khuks are infected and users didn't even noticed.
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Here's the karda of a Chainpuri I recently sold.

Left side:


Right side:


Bob
 
I wonder if a liberal dose of Ballistol (or mineral oil, or lanolin, neats foot oil, or something) applied via a spray nozzle wouldn't give the little bastards a fatal coat of an oxygen-depriving film? If you combined the Ballistol with the abovementioned plastic bags, I'd think that the alcohol vapors would effectively kill nearly anything alive in there to include microbes.

I wouldn't trust freezing. If the bugs are local to you, it stands to reason that they (or their eggs) can withstand a few days of freezing temperatures...or they wouldn't be local to you. I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to try though.
 
beetles Beatles

think that was the typo that changed the music world. Originally, I think, meant to be like the "Crickets."

(obscure knowledge is a curse.)
 
Big Bob said:
Here's the karda of a Chainpuri I recently sold.

Left side:


Right side:


Bob
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Damn, I've seen this a couple of times, but not recently. I'm going to have to do a check of my horn handled stuff. Could have been just something I was passing through in trade, but from what I've read that could have been enough to get a batch of eggs in the mix.

Norm
 
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