Bear Skull....need help

[Michelle_Nelson]

Ya know what 92xj I would loose the attitude.   

You've got 3 people on this thread who do this kinda work for a living.  Call them profesionals or experts if you'd like, offering free advice and there knowledge.  Giving people techniques and tricks that they have spent years and years tweeking, making changes to, and refining to get the results they are getting today.   

If you want to get all butt hurt because we have pointed out a few things that you could improve on than so be it.  If your happy with the work your doing that is fine.  If you feel you have no room for improvement than thats fine too.  As far as I am concerned I've put a lot of time and effort into my methods and and so have the others.  I DO NOT owe it to anyone to share my methods and neither do they, but I do willingly because I know there are people that can't afford to have a profesional do it for them.  If you don't want to take advantage of the free advice that will save you time and improve the quality of your work, that is your choice. 

When people come on here with that attitude it make me want to just shut up and not offer advice to anyone.  Why should any of us if all we are going to get for it is an attitude. 

[92xj]

No attitude.  Erased my post, since it came across as that.
All I did was offer my opinion as well.
Never said you or your methods were incorrect. 
I still didnt see any methods posted besides a crock pot with soap for a few months. 
Im sorry I posted and responded to comments.

This thread isn't about my skull.  I simply answered a question the OP asked and showed a picture of how my skull turned out.

[bucklucky]

Hey Shane , here is a good post to look through. Stuff about skulls has been beaten to death on here already so I really don't want to type 10 pages trying to explain something so simple. Best word of advice I can give while degreasing is BE PATIENT, Bear skulls more than likely will need more than a few months to degrease. I just check a few of mine that sit in 125 degree water for 3 months straight with dawn dishwashing soap and there is still plenty of grease pressent. These are 2 young bears also which are usually easier than older critters.

Here is the link to that thread Michelle put up and added to a while ago.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=16008.msg181209#msg181209

If you want more info than you can handle go to www.taxidermy.net and check out the skull section or just type in degreasing methods in the search bar. The more reading you do in there the better idea you will have on what really works and how long it takes with the right equipment. I use a Horse trough and 2500 watt heating element with a thermostat to keep my water at 125 consistently. 125 degrees is kind of a magic number when degreasing skulls. You get too hot and they chalk , too cool and the grease wont come out as easy. 125 is a good safe number. Good luck.

[ShaneTyTrey]

Thanks all for your help, greatly appreciated