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Offline Michelle_Nelson

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Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« on: June 17, 2009, 09:44:13 PM »
Before I get to carried away this bear was a wholesale job I did for another Taxi that was behind and trying to get caught up.  This was one of the Bears he sent me.  It was already tanned and the Rug shell already in.  Needless to say about pissed my pants when I pulled this one out to work on.  :yike:


Here is a Photo of the entire Bear hide right after I rehydrated it.



Front right leg and the only one that was cut correctly



This is the Front Left Leg.  The arm was skinned to high across the chest so the top of the arm is actually in the arm pit.  That is why it lays the way it does.



This is the Left Rear Leg.  I have no idea what was going through their minds when they skinned it out because the foot was being held to the hide with a 2" wide piece of hide.



This is the Right rear leg.  Who ever skinned out the leg started their incision on the top of the foot and skinned around to the butt hole.  So the flank is actually on the bottom part of the leg.

« Last Edit: June 17, 2009, 09:57:37 PM by Michelle_Nelson »

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 09:53:36 PM »
Here is a picture of the Bear after all the repairs have been made and it is stretched out on the stretching table.  I got a rough measurement of 137 inches of sewing to piece this Bear back together.


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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 09:55:36 PM »
Here is the finnished product after rugging.




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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 10:03:38 PM »
Wow that turned out awesome compared to when you got it.  Good work.

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 10:07:49 PM »
WOW, what did you use, Rogaine?
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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 10:09:10 PM »
Turned out nice Mich, now get your butt back to work  :chuckle:

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 10:41:52 PM »
Michelle,  outstanding job!  Nice save on it. The end result looks fantastic.  John

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 10:44:38 PM »
Michelle that came out awesome, nice to see you took good care of patches.... I like the green on there really hi-lites the bear.


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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2009, 11:02:20 PM »
I'd call that a big save. That's why I got you working on my rug. So I can expect miracles  :chuckle: Stretch it out to 7 foot.

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2009, 12:59:37 AM »
WOW looks great, hope you got paid by the inch!!

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2009, 05:31:08 AM »
guess thats why you get paid the big bucks!!
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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2009, 05:44:05 AM »
Nice Job, Good save  ;)

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2009, 06:01:57 AM »
Looks great.




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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2009, 06:29:01 AM »
Now that was a project.  GOOD JOB!

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RE: Before & After Bear Rug ( Michelle Nelson's Taxidermy )
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2009, 06:36:30 AM »
Who skinned that thing in the first place :tdown:

nice save.
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