peroxide process on skulls

[Miles]

Ok, on a more serious note... I boil my own skulls.  I watch the boil and make sure it doesn't get too carried away, more of a simmer than a boil.  I have not had any problems with teeth cracking or the long nasal bones falling out.  Here are a couple that I boiled up in an afternoon last year to ship them back east.  In these photos I have not done any whitening, just quickly cleaned them up.  I don't think they turned out too bad for a quick cleaning prior to shipment.   It didn't cost me anything, and whitening them after they are at this stage is not too difficult.

[shedcrazy]

Looks good to me Miles.

[boneaddict]

Looks good Miles

[TikkaT3-270Shortmag]

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[Michelle_Nelson]

Beetles and Maceration will give you the same results.  The only real difference is you don't have to care or feed beetles in the off season.

[bucklucky]

I had beetles , they work great but Im liking the maceration a bit better. But either one of those 2 methods I think are the best. Boiling works and can get a descent skull for the do it yourselfer. I boiled for years with OK resuls, end results were not even close to beetles or maceration though. Even the boiled skulls will still need to be degreased before whitening . When I get my picture back I will show you a few skulls I have that were boiled and at the time were completely whitee till the grease leached through 

[shedcrazy]

What is maceration??

[bucklucky]

Michelle tought me all there is to know about this subject so here is her thread on maceration.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,16008.msg181209.html#msg181209

[DoubleJ]

What about an ant hill?

[bucklucky]

What about an ant hill?

No

[DoubleJ]

A simple no isn't gonna cut it.  Why not?  And I'm assuming here that I can keep the animals off of it.

[turkey slayer]

Maceration is the only way to do skulls. It mite take longer then boiling but the skulls come out 100% better looking. Maceration help the degressing progress and the skulls come out so much cleaner. I use 27 1/2% peroxide on all mt skulls. I let the skulls site in peroxide for 2 day with a LED lite over them.

[Michelle_Nelson]

A simple no isn't gonna cut it.  Why not?  And I'm assuming here that I can keep the animals off of it.

Well you can either macerate one in 7 days?  Than degrease and whiten.
 
or
 
You can wait a month or more for the ants to clean the skull.  Than degrease it (which will probably take longer) and then whiten.  Hopefully you can find a reliable colony of ants to clean your skull before the sun bleaches the antlers or dries it out like beef jerky.  Sitting out in the weather is also hard on a skull
 
Either way your going to need a fish tank heater.
 
 

[bucklucky]

A simple no isn't gonna cut it.  Why not?  And I'm assuming here that I can keep the animals off of it.

No    That answers the question clearly  Ants are slow and wont clean the skull completely , well at least that is what clients of mine have told me 

[NW-GSP]

A simple no isn't gonna cut it.  Why not?  And I'm assuming here that I can keep the animals off of it.

Well you can either macerate one in 7 days?  Than degrease and whiten.
 
or
 
You can wait a month or more for the ants to clean the skull.  Than degrease it (which will probably take longer) and then whiten.  Hopefully you can find a reliable colony of ants to clean your skull before the sun bleaches the antlers or dries it out like beef jerky.  Sitting out in the weather is also hard on a skull
 
Either way your going to need a fish tank heater.

that bobcat skull looks amazing!