?can any things or items at wal-mart help with fleshing my hides or capes,
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First of all...BORAX...less than $4.00 for a 5-pound box. "20-Mule Team BVorax" (green box) in the laundry soap department...NOT "Boraxo"...which is a laundry soap.
"DAWN" Detergent for washing and Degreasing skins and hides...birds and animals. Dawn has been used for over 20-years to degrease and save wildlife from oil spills...and to wash the oil off rocks on beaches.
A 20-Quart flat-end...with hanfles plastic tub for washing your skins. $1.99...fits flat against the wall...heavy duty.
Glycerine...Hydrogen Peroxide...Wire in different gauges in coils...string...thread...Wood for base making and panels...saws...pliers...hypodermic needles and syringes at pharmacy department..files...pliers...wire cutters and snippers...knives...dowels for fleshing too and modeling tools...round fence post for fleshing beam...you name it.
That should start you off okay.
You need plenty of salt too.
You can use a barrel sander on it to do finish fleshing, it thins and smooths nostril skin, nosepad, eyelids, tearducts, anywhere you want delicate skin thinned. And you will use it for adding detials to your manikin, like the nostrils. You will find many uses for it.
Chocolate has helped to keep me from turning my tools on myself after MANY a scew up.
Wire cutters,scisors, needles, nylon invisible thread,sandpaper,denature alcohol ,lacquer thinner,paint thinner,Cotton,wrapping thread,and many other stuff, and if you do exelcior bird bodies talk to the glass dept,they throw out excelsior where glass and dishes are packed.
Tootsie Pops does it for me.
Bondo, 3" screws for setting antlers, habitat materials, incense to make the shop smell pretty, wood slab panels, plastic mesh for carding, plaster, office supplies, tpaper, paper towels, cleaning products. Don't forget the ever-important phone and music systems...gotta have those tunes!
Plus a 55-inch flat screen TV set auspended from the ceiling with 150-amp speakers...to drown out your cussing so the neighbors don't hear you at work.
Heck ,are we getting pay for this commercial for Wal-Mart? somebody should cut and paste and send it to them, maybe they'll make a donation to a taxidermy school for the young beginners.
dont for get the gloves & repriator and safety glass's
Why, I can remember when we used that to cover the smell of... oh, never mind.
I use to use the ole bottle of Airwick. Remove the cap from the bottle of green stuff...pull up on the wire handle to elevate the thick wick (hey!...I'm a poet...an didden evin no-et)...and the scent permeated the air and killed the ugly stuff attacking your nostrils.