"THE" 5 hour European mount tutorial.

[Colonel]

Derek you can buy it at Beauty Salons or Beauty supply stores such Sally's.

http://www.sallybeauty.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-SA-Site/default/Search-Show?q=40+volume

http://www.sallybeauty.com/Clairol-Lightener/SBS-320832,default,pd.html

[Diamondhitch]

Thanks

[Rook]

Awesome stuff man..! One Question if I may ask..?

Im about on my way to finishing up my skull this way and I wasnt paying attention and the mix also ran down my skull onto my antlers.. Michael P, can you reference the Paint that was used to color the Antlers

Thanks,

[Rhasputin]

Nice tutorial!

Just a hint:

I don't know how you get the bondo into the skull cavity, but if you use a piping bag, like you use for baking, full of bondo, it's much less messy! (:
You can also put the bondo into a plastic zipper bag, and cut the tip off of one corner to get it down in there!

Amazing tutorial, good thing my mom's a hairdresser! I can get tons of bleach! Hah!

[105 taxidermy]

good stuff ....thanks m.p

[bmdakk (Bryan)]

gonna try this one this week. got two to do.

[dhawk]

This was my second attempt at doing a European Mount and it turned out great.  I am an amateur when it comes to taxidermy,  so thank you!! This is an excellent step by step process on how to do the mount.  (It looks better than the ones I have paid for)

Problem:  I mounted the skull on the wall and my buddy took it down to look at it.  When he put it back on the wall it fell.  Can you now help me out on how to glue the bone back on?  Do you know of a tutorial on how to do so?  I feel like crap, it turned out well now the bottom piece where the nose used to be is gone...

[bulldog4949]

It should slide back into the outside of the nasal cabvity and line back up.

[attilio]

thanks for the post. i'm just doin my first one and this helps a lot.

[Vanessa]

What do you do if you get stain on the skull itself? how would i fix that?

[Alan B.]

What do you do if you get stain on the skull itself? how would i fix that?

Im guessing something like acetone.

[Terry N]

I am a little confused about the air boiling. You show the skull in
a sink filled with soapy water after the simmering process. How are you boiling the skull in the sink? I must have missed something but it looks like you are air blowing the skull in hot soapy water but not boiling water am I correct?

[bmdakk (Bryan)]

I am a little confused about the air boiling. You show the skull in
a sink filled with soapy water after the simmering process. How are you boiling the skull in the sink? I must have missed something but it looks like you are air blowing the skull in hot soapy water but not boiling water am I correct?

you blow the air into the tiny crevaces and holes, all over and inside. the "air boiling" occurs when the air is released under the water creating bubbles, like in boiling.

[Pappacannon]

Anything different with a boar head?  Is there another way if you dont have an air gun?

[tex4k]

A guy I know here took his skulls down to a shop that has a steamer, the ones like a pressure washer with a big heater, and blew his off I looked at them when he go done and they looked really good couldn't find any greasy spots anywhere.