cattle skulls and horns

[Flacer22]

Posted few weeks ago about doing alot of steer skulls. I picked up first load yesterday and am getting started. Many of the ones I picked up horns are pretty flacky. Wondering once sweated off skulls what should be done with horns?? Going to use a large chest freezer with heat to sweat horns off. I've got few that are mine so im working with them first.

[Sea Wolf]

Light sandpaper and then a polish grade sandpaper would work.

[Flacer22]

Should the flacky stuff be taken off first??

[Sea Wolf]

I wouldn't spend the time doing it now. Wait till the skulls are finished. You will have to clean out the horns too. Though, if the horns are clean and off to the side waiting for the skulls to reattach to you could work on them if you had the time. Make sure you don't mix them up. They have to go back on the skull they came off of.

[Flacer22]

That's what I was hopping to do work on horns as skulls were being done my client did not want horns messed with but was going to play with some of ones I got to keep. I did tag each horn to there skulls so they match.