I have been looking at a lot of dear mounts since I started taxidermy & I've noticed that when some have been sewed you can see the trail from the head to the end, is this because they traped the hair between the stitches, or didn't they sew it tight enough? thanks in advance----Doug
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Doug, That bunching of the skin and rough hair look comes from not getting the skin to lay down after stitching. Lots of people cut a very shallow trench in the area of the neck where the incision is and fill it with clay. After sewing, the area is pressed into the clay and that usually will hide the stitching. You can also just use a hammer to flatten out the sewing but do this carefully as you can break the thread. When sewing you can use an old toothbrush to backbrush the hair as you sew and avoid some of the "wildhair" look. Enjoy, Aaron H.
Breakthrough White Tail Deer Head Manual and Sally Dahmes' Deer Head manual from WASCO...with her complimenting videos on mounting and finishing deer heads.
Some taxidermists staple a light card over the seam to hoid the hair in place after sewing...remove and brush the hair after mount has dried.
Doug,ETCC is correct,cut a piece of chipboard the length of the incision and just staple it down after you get it sewn up,and remove after drying,its as easy as that.Another tip is to use a finer grade thread,most taxidermist use a thick thread for fear that the stitches will break,but I sew all my deer with SPIDER WIRE fishing line,it works awsome and you can get the stitches very small and the line will never break and is water resistant.And don't worry that the line is green,you will never see it,trust me,good luck
Thanks everyone, makes sence to me now. Oh! & thanks for not picking on me for the deer spelling------Doug
Don't worry about the misspellin...jest go to the ETCC Skool Of Spellin an you'll be alrite.
Here's my Disclaimer...
"Please excuse any typos. Some are accidental and som e are intentinal...Yer job is to figger out witch is which"...ETCC
Dental floss is a good one to use when sewing also doug and very inexpensive to. It lays flat also.
Byron