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bleaching a skull
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bleaching a skull
ok, some of you remember my post about the 10 pointer i got ( well it was a 10, but one tine was knocked off making him a 9 pointer ) anyways...
i skinned the skull, boiled EVERYTHING off of it, now i need to make a wood ( oak ) plaque behind it and bleach the skull. do i *soak* it in bleach, or do i just put bleach on it ? my friend says his dad puts bleach on it with a brush and leave sit out int he sun but im afraid to leave it outdoors. BTW its pretty nasty and a long process ( 7 hours ) but it comes out pretty cool.
any advice???
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i skinned the skull, boiled EVERYTHING off of it, now i need to make a wood ( oak ) plaque behind it and bleach the skull. do i *soak* it in bleach, or do i just put bleach on it ? my friend says his dad puts bleach on it with a brush and leave sit out int he sun but im afraid to leave it outdoors. BTW its pretty nasty and a long process ( 7 hours ) but it comes out pretty cool.
any advice???
thanks
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Well not to rain on your parade, but I told you how to do it the right way; the same way the smithsonean does it...its a shame to ruin it; boiling is a last resort causeing the bone to soften and expand; thus reducing the life of the bone once exposed...cant hurry quality work...now how to proceed from here?...well as I said before don't bleach it...thats a backwoods okie way of doing it; use peroxide from the HAIRDRESSER, not the store...then depending on the ambient temp. let it set for 3hrs to ?....do this after you've glued all the teeth back in, assuming you boiled them till they fell out (the only way to make sure you've removed all the tissue)...it'll work but in the long term it won't last as long as one soaked...also after the peroxide let it dry thouroughly and the spray it with a sealer (I use spar varnish).
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bczolone-
i know.... you put a really good reply to my previous thread- since i couldnt afford to do it any other way, and wanted it done NOW ( yeah im impatient ) and wanted to do it myself.... i just decided to go ahead and boil it. ill talk to my friend ( works at a hair salon ) and see if she can get me the GOOD hydrogen peroxide
i know.... you put a really good reply to my previous thread- since i couldnt afford to do it any other way, and wanted it done NOW ( yeah im impatient ) and wanted to do it myself.... i just decided to go ahead and boil it. ill talk to my friend ( works at a hair salon ) and see if she can get me the GOOD hydrogen peroxide
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sorry i was harsh...i've just done it both ways and I know the difference...make sure that you wrap the antlers ( I use aluminum foil) really tight at the base, the peroxide will bleach them out if they get in it (you can always touch it up with paint if your artistic) and have enough peroxide to just cover the top of the skull and you may have to keep brushing it on the top if it looks like the antlers might be slightly submersed. I have a bowl that will handle my deer skulls and takes about 1 gal of peroxide. If the bowl is too big and 1 gal isn't enough you can add CLEAN rocks to raise the level of the peroxide...I use river rock...don't know if it would react with other types of rock though.
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Next time, see if you can find some carrion beetles from a taxidermy supplier. Don't know if they still do it, but museums used to use those beetles to clean carcasses and skeletons.
They pick the bones so clean you'd swear they were polished.
They pick the bones so clean you'd swear they were polished.
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thanks bczolone-
and seventyseven... we are refferring to DEER skulls by the way lol... making "European Mounts" for the dear heads.
76supercab- ill let you be the first to drink out of it!
and seventyseven... we are refferring to DEER skulls by the way lol... making "European Mounts" for the dear heads.
76supercab- ill let you be the first to drink out of it!
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Well My uncle bleached A LOT! of buffalo skulls and this should be about the same what He had was A Big tub like thing that was made out of stainless steel and had A lid he then filled it up most of the way and with water and the skulls in it and then topped it off with Bleach I cant remember how big the vat was or how much Liquid it held but I think he put like 10 gallons of bleach in it and let it sit for like A week or longer when they came out they where really really white he does this as A business and it works good.
Hope it helps you he also did it with his deer skull from this year.
Hope it helps you he also did it with his deer skull from this year.
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