Author Topic: My 1st DIY Euro mount --- PIC Heavy!!! (Read 5368 times)

Huntbear · « **on:** May 29, 2009, 07:46:04 PM »

I finally finished my first DIY Euro mount. It is a whitetail skull and rack that my nieces husband found while falling timber in Idaho. He usually finds 5-10 matched sheds every year, and sells them to make money for his hunting items.

I have a slab of 5/4 Black Walnut that is 24 in. wide, and now 6 ft. long that I used part of for the plaques, a lot of sanding, and some good dark walnut stain did the trick. I took the skull, and scrubbed it in hot water and Dawn, let it dry, put the whitening stuff on it, and it came out whiter than I thought it would. I also darkened the bleached part of the horns up a bit with some stain. I still need to finish buffing out where I touched the skull to the wood, but it is basically done.
Here is the photos I took along the process.

The rough sawn black walnut I used.

After sanding it down with a belt sander, and 180 grit on a vibrating sander

Pre fitting pieces

What the skull originally looked like.

After scrubbing.

With the whitening/peroxide compound on the skull

Skull after bleaching

After 1 coat of stain.

Antlers after darkening them a bit.

The finished product.

I would like to say thanks to Michelle, and Bucklucky for the good advice, it helped a lot!!!

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2009, 08:07:59 PM »

Wow, really nice work. I can see you really took the time to do it right.

Huntbear · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2009, 09:31:37 PM »

Thanks, I have about 18 hours in the project. A lot of them spent sanding, lol.

huntnphool · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:43:04 AM »

looks good

wastickslinger · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:28:41 AM »

Turned out great!!! I like euros's.

He is an idea for your next one. Dad has played around with a few ideas. This one is my favorite. I wanted one that was a pedistle rather than hang on the wall. I think he did a pretty good job. Anyway its an idea for your next one if you want to keep messing with em.

Huntbear · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2009, 04:14:33 PM »

I like that pedestal type mount, I may have to do my next one that way.

I did the wall mount for the first since wall space was available for it.

bow4elk · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2009, 04:42:51 PM »

what whitening paste did you use? Looks great - nice work man!

Huntbear · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2009, 04:44:57 PM »

The whitening paste was left over from my brother's Cabelas euro kit... whatever that stuff is, but it worked really well imho.

EastWaViking · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2009, 07:28:32 AM »

nice job!

MADMAX · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2009, 07:39:29 AM »

The pedestal is a great idea and looks really good, I also really like europeans

wastickslinger · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2009, 12:03:57 PM »

Dad made a few. I ended up using this one. I like the darker finish.

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2009, 01:56:42 PM »

Nice work Hunt Bear!

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2009, 02:03:02 PM »

Nice Job pretty soon there will be no need for taxidermists!!!

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2009, 02:04:46 PM »

LOL, their will always be a need for taxidermists. Most people don't have the patience to do their own taxidermy.

testar77 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 11, 2009, 03:23:36 PM »

Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on June 08, 2009, 02:04:46 PM

LOL, their will always be a need for taxidermists. Most people don't have the patience to do their own taxidermy.

Beautiful job btw Huntbear!!!!!!!!

strutnrut1984 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 12, 2009, 09:24:11 AM »

look nice , i have a nice whitetail skull and antlers i would like to euro mount as well. what did you use for bleaching the skull ?

Huntbear · « **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2009, 02:20:35 PM »

Quote from: Huntbear on June 03, 2009, 04:44:57 PM

The whitening paste was left over from my brother's Cabelas euro kit... whatever that stuff is, but it worked really well imho.

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