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You tube it, super easy. Do your own in about an hour, looks as good or better. White bone creations has good videos.
Anyone ever pressure wash one to get the outside hunk off?
Quote from: BeerBugler on October 11, 2017, 12:16:42 PMYou tube it, super easy. Do your own in about an hour, looks as good or better. White bone creations has good videos.I don't want to be "that guy" but if you don't degrease and then peroxide or bleach or whatever, it won't look "as good or better" than a pro job. At least not for long. All that stuff takes a lot longer than an hour to do.
What I do is wrap tightly in a plastic bag and let sit somewere safe, for me it's in the wood shed rafters, out of the direct sunlight so the antlers don't bleach. It will start to decay. Pull it out of the plastic and simmer for a few minutes and it's clean and not harmed from boiling. Then go threw a one month degreasing process, then peroxide with the 37% stuff. One warning is that the initial smell and sight is unpleasant but is short lived. This cost very little and turns out very nice with all nasal bones perfect.
Quote from: lewy on October 12, 2017, 12:10:22 PMWhat I do is wrap tightly in a plastic bag and let sit somewere safe, for me it's in the wood shed rafters, out of the direct sunlight so the antlers don't bleach. It will start to decay. Pull it out of the plastic and simmer for a few minutes and it's clean and not harmed from boiling. Then go threw a one month degreasing process, then peroxide with the 37% stuff. One warning is that the initial smell and sight is unpleasant but is short lived. This cost very little and turns out very nice with all nasal bones perfect.If you cut off as much as you can, it'll help the process go faster....the smell will be the same though
If you want it dull and as if you found it in the woods, boil/simmer and bleach with household peroxide. If you want it bright and mighty white macerate, completely degrease and use this stuff or 50 volume if you can get it. I've done well over 100 skulls (probably closer to 200) from raccoons on up to bison and Texas longhorns. This stuff is da bomb. You have to get it at a beauty or taxidermy supply. Luckily my wife owns a salon and gets it for me on the cheap.