Finished Whitetail Wall pedestal (Charlies Taxidermy)

[cberg]

Advantage Taxidermy.

Been in business since 2004. Love the challenge of learning so it keeps me coming back. We don't advertise because we are almost to busy now. Love the word of mouth thing. Were just small time but its almost decision time. Hope you didn't think I was criticizing your work. Just curious mostly. I liked your one statement "I'm not where I want to be" referring to your level of expertise. This was on one of your other posts, I think it was the elk one.  It shows you don't have an ego that gets in the way of your work.

How long have you been in business?

[bucklucky]

I was just going to post some pics for you  I have been doing Taxidermy for about 10 years, and been full time for 2 years.
  Ego's are what kill the industry as far as I'm conserned. I was curiouse if I knew you or of you. I think criticism is the most useful info you can get on mounts. I for one always criticise my mount, maybee over criticise   . I have actually stated before that if there is something wrong with a mount I have done, chances are I already know about it  I will tear apart my mount everytime if someone wants me to tell them what I think is wrong with it. There is always something wrong with all my mounts, I wont be satisfied untill you cant tell the differance between a real live deer and my mount  . I will always be learning and trying different things . I have changed how I do my noses since last year too. Here are some pics  for ya.

[bucklucky]

Cameras show a crapy paint job on the nose also  The nose looks alot better in person  Looks like I will have to go back and repaint the nose so it doesnt look like the flesh was aprayed on, that looks bad.

[cberg]

The nose detail looks awesome. Very nice. And the edges of the ears are right on the mark. I dont have the guts yet to try just bonded ear method. Still using liners. They are a little thick but over all it seems to save time and still look good. Great airbrush work on the ears. Seems like our customers dont like so much of the fleshy look so we dirty ours up a little with off white base then flesh/buckskin/and then dark brown. I wish I had some pics but I dont yet. There dosent seem like a right or wrong way ( to some extent ) to paint an ear. When I first started doing mule deer I asked some long time taxidermists for a color scheme for the ears and a lot of them said, "just paint them white". Good thing most of this advice is free :~)

[bucklucky]

Those Bonded ears I do are just barely thicker than my earliners ears just so you know. The Judge at the Idaho competition had to ask me if those were really bondo 

 As for ear colors, theres is so many variables on colors . If its hot out they seem to be more flesh or pink colored, thats what I was going for on that buck since it is a short hair cape. Most of my mounts I will flesh them out , then hayze a little brown around the edge and then freckle them like most ears look.