steve
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european mountshello to you all havent been on the forum for awhile been busy, at the moment im doing loads of deer skulls, for a taxidermy mate of mine, we start with a skull skin it boil it and then degrease and bleach it white its quite easy to do and they sell very well, a lot of people just thow the deer heads a way but to me its a waste even the antlers a sellable to the stick makers and craft boys. 
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Bullrussel
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He'l have a sore head in the morning!!
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fish
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nice work! i have a nie porpoise skull here at the mo!
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hare basher
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vary good
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statikpunk
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thats great I have been doing that with my big game for a couple of years now. it sure saves money over getting a regular mount, and it looks cool too
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fish
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walls covered in jack rabbit skulls then!
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statikpunk
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ha! no those just bleach themselves naturaly!
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steve
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statikpunk do you do your skulls with beetles or boiling or let them rot down.? some people are now airspraying skulls in silver and gold paint might give that a try it looks brilliant on some of the skull ive seen.
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statikpunk
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i boil then bleach it with hydrogen peroxide, mine dont seem to come out quite as white as yours though. I have heard of the beetle thing and it sounds cool I should try it. my father in law has staked his to an anthill before for the same effect but it takes a while.
I will send some pics of ones that Ive done when i get a chance.
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steve
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cheers look forward to the pics, ive allways wanted a colony of dermistid beetles but they are not easy to keep in the uk, heres a few of my skeletons i put together.
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statikpunk
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wow thats cool never done a whole body before just heads
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statikpunk
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here are the pics i promised Me and my old man did his elk too (that was an undertaking!) but I dont have pics of it
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steve
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nice work there mate, i do like to keep the bottom jaws on mine as i do think they look better, id love to be able to do a moose or elk skull, the last set of moose antlers and top half of its skull i see at our local auction made £450 !!!!!!!! when i bleach my skulls i use 35% hydrogen peroxide it soon whitens them.
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Graham The Builder
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| steve wrote: | cheers look forward to the pics, ive allways wanted a colony of dermistid beetles but they are not easy to keep in the uk, heres a few of my skeletons i put together.
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That is fantastic, Steve. 
You can really see that the blacktip rabbit is built for speed.
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kent taxidermist
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best way is maceration
take off most of the meat and leave in a bucket of water out of the way for 6 months and the bacteria in the water will eat away at all the particles of meat on the bone, time it takes depends on the tempreture of the water
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