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Snyd
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Post by Snyd on Oct 8, 2015 21:02:52 GMT -5
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Post by Snyd on Oct 8, 2015 21:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by dougader on Oct 8, 2015 21:29:34 GMT -5
Your hard work pays off. That looks really good!
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Post by zeus on Oct 8, 2015 21:30:43 GMT -5
That looks great man!!
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Post by arokcrwlr on Oct 8, 2015 21:35:14 GMT -5
That's awesome Perry. I really like the way that turned out.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Oct 9, 2015 6:16:11 GMT -5
Very nicely done.
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Post by upthewall on Oct 9, 2015 7:13:08 GMT -5
I agree with more of the natural color white. Looks great, good work.
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Post by princeout on Oct 9, 2015 9:29:38 GMT -5
Very nice! Sounds like lots of work. When I was a kid, I had a goat horn I wanted to turn into a powder horn. I left it out in a big red ant pile for a while. No effort and worked pretty good.
Sure would be great to figure out how to make grip panels out of some of that horn though! Some of my favorites are sheep horn. Tim
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Post by bushog on Oct 9, 2015 9:44:05 GMT -5
Nice Job!
Sure beats what I pay the taxidermist!
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Post by Otony on Oct 9, 2015 10:16:07 GMT -5
Well done. Amazing what a little elbow grease and ingenuity will accomplish.
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 9, 2015 10:58:48 GMT -5
Snyd.... a fine presentation of process. The "European Mount," a.k.a. Skull & Horns, preserves the skull of the late departed animal. I learned the process decades ago from Ben "Bear Man" Kilham, at which time he introduced me to a detergent booster----Axion----a phosphate pretty much banned as a pollutant, I believe. My luck with detergents has been much more labor & time intensive than indicated in your report. I too prefer the visual depth of the off-white bone to a full bleach treatment. European mounts adorn the walls of wooly, old money estates.
Draped a tarp over a moose head, pinning the military waxed canvas to the ground with hay and firewood. Come spring I half expected the horns to be rodent gnawed. Fortunately, not a tooth. On the other hand, the little black ants of the North Country, which black bear love to eat, had performed brilliantly, cleaning every vestige of tissue from the Byzantine nasal passages. Just a wig patch of hair remained on his head. Color of the antlers and luminous depth of bone perfectly intact.
Years ago, art gallery in New Orleans, the director keeps an elephant skull. Each summer heat & humidity turn loose the stink of death. Strangely, it doesn't stink across the room, only from a few feet. Close inspection waters your eyes. Keep silent suggestion to myself that the owner give the huge skull a bath.
Also years ago, paid an occasional visit to the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to sketch specimens of stuffed wildlife. Hundreds of birds and small animals in glass cases. Larger stuff on the floor, full body mount bull moose, 7 feet at the shoulder, full body griz, brown, and polar bears. Dead bugs carpet the glass cabinets. Dust blankets the feathered and furry display, yet the ancient taxidermy holds. Rumpled, openly eccentric museum director fetches with bare hands an American Bittern, a Hooded Merganser, or Bald Eagle from glass case to table for me to draw.
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Post by bradshaw on Oct 9, 2015 11:10:12 GMT -5
"Don't touch the taxidermy," growls the museum director. "They're full of arsenic. If you want to shift it around, come get me." He rubs his arsenic hands.
Pretty well explains the veritable rug of dead bugs in the displays, and why the ancient beasts still wear hair and feathers. Bug bites taxidermy bug drops dead.
My respect, Snyd, for dealing yourself with game you slay. David Bradshaw
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Post by caryc on Oct 9, 2015 11:28:45 GMT -5
Very nice! Sounds like lots of work. When I was a kid, I had a goat horn I wanted to turn into a powder horn. I left it out in a big red ant pile for a while. No effort and worked pretty good. Sure would be great to figure out how to make grip panels out of some of that horn though! Some of my favorites are sheep horn. Tim First, my compliments to Snyd on a great job on that mount. But, being a grip maker the first thing I saw in that first picture is a beautiful set of grips. But either way it is still something great to look at. Here is a pictorial on how I make a set of ram's horn grips. www.clccustomgrips.com/RamBuild.html
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Post by caryc on Oct 9, 2015 12:53:39 GMT -5
Snyd,
I must say, I'm jealous of you, first for being able to go out and bring back a trophy like that and second on your skills at preparing it.
But, I have a question for you. Why did you cut off the bony horn bases so short. I have a Moreno Rams skull with horns that I purchased and the guy that prepared it left the horn bases at the full length. In other words he didn't have to glue the horns onto the skull, the horns can be slipped on and off for examination or for some sneaky guy to rip them off and make a pair of grips.
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