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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #45 on: December 28, 2010, 10:56:51 pm »
I've washed with Dawn detergent with some luck, but the soak in white gas works best.  I tried the technique of soaking in water with lye dissolved, but ended up eating too much of the cartilage matrix that the calcium bonds onto. 
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #46 on: December 29, 2010, 02:24:13 pm »
So far, I have had good luck soaking and scrubbing with really hot water and dawn soap.
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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #47 on: January 01, 2011, 04:58:35 pm »
Did I miss it or what did you do with the lower jaw bones???
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #48 on: January 01, 2011, 06:48:46 pm »
I didn't like the way they looked on the skull once it was done.  I have been keeping the jawbones from different aged deer to use as a field aging tool.  I am working on a cow elk skull and I am going to put the lower jaw back on it when I am done. 

Another thing I have learned this year is that the warmer the peroxide, the better it works.  When it got really cold, it didn't whiten the skulls as white as they should have been.  I had to paint them with the cream and then wrap them in plastic cling wrap and sit them in front of a heater.  That did the trick.
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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2011, 01:01:58 am »
Here is how the cow elk turned out.  I used the bottom jaw on this one.



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Offline oneeye

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #50 on: January 13, 2011, 03:35:23 pm »
Do you ever paint/decorate your skulls up?
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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #51 on: January 13, 2011, 06:26:58 pm »
Not yet.  I thought it would look cool if I could draw and shade a knapped arrow head on the forehead of one.  The metalized ones are interesting too.
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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2011, 02:27:19 am »
A friend of mine painted this one for me. 

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2011, 06:55:25 am »
Nice!
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Offline Kent D.

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #54 on: January 18, 2011, 01:55:10 pm »
Looks good.  Somethings I do, if you dont mind me mentioning, is to use 3% peroxide and simmer it.  I wrape the antlers, real tight with innertubes to protect them from the peroxide.  That way you do not have to touch up the antlers when you are finished.  I have also burshed on 30% peroxide to better controle it so it does not disolve the bones too much.  When Im finished, I like to seal it with kilz oil primer.
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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #55 on: January 22, 2011, 09:44:56 pm »
I bought a Buck Boiler and it worked GREAT.........twice.....no worky no more.  goin back to the hot plate.
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Offline andy thomas

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #56 on: July 10, 2011, 02:23:11 am »
another way of attaching the skulls to the plaques is get your self a three inch bolt and nut . mix up some bono and place it in the brain cavity then stick the head of your bolt into the cavity, you need to hold it for awhile while it sets up. then run the threaded part through plaque and add nut.
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Offline Gus

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #57 on: July 19, 2011, 11:21:15 pm »
Thank You outlaw,

For this thread and the information in it.
I've got some bones soakin' in Hot water and dish soap even as you read this.  ;D

As far as mounting skull to plaque, I've had decent luck using a piece of Oak dowel, one end epoxied into the hole in the back of the skull and the other
epoxied into a hole drilled in the plaque.

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Offline AkDan

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #58 on: October 17, 2011, 09:40:54 am »
My taxidermist mentioned for his sealer..using regular white elmers glue mixed 50-50 with water.   It looks natural on my brownie skull.   

I have a black bear and a grizzly skull to do, thanks for the how to! 
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Offline BowEd

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Re: How to make a European skull mount
« Reply #59 on: November 23, 2011, 01:29:01 pm »
Super how to segment.Done some myself years ago.Kind of makes you maybe want to be a taxidermist ehhhhh.
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