Hey guys and gals! A fellow brought me in a mulie cape he had wet tanned about 6+ years ago by a gipo haxidermist and wanted to know if I could do a shoulder mount with it....well, I thawed it and although the cape looks tanned it has a yellowish colour and an odd chemical like odour....I don't do tanning so I am looking for advice on what the yellowish liquid might be and why the odour....the stuff I send out and get back from the tannery does not look or smell like this one...appreciate some thoughts. Later!
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There is no real way for us to say what it was tanned with at all usless it get tested. We could guess but unless he finds out what, it can be hard to tell just by you trying to explain it.
Now can it be mounted? If the hide was in the freezer for those amount of years and was properlly tanned? Yes you can mount it with noo problems.
And what you're seeing is the lanolin in the oil of that paint on. Just a guess however.
saw dust and mineral spirits and see if that doesnt cure both problems
I figured it must be a brush-on type tan...but it is good to hear that others think that too...as for mounting something with it...I am still pondering that one. Thanks.
What is a gipo haxidermist?
This is the guy that starts a shop only to close down 3 years later and skip town with everyone's $ and capes...a guy who does an owl mount in 2 weeks, doesn't wait for it to dry and sets the eyes, calls it good and sends it home witht he customer who learns 4 months later that there is something wrong....a guy who does a deer mount and doesn't use anything in the ears, sends the mount back early and then 4 months later the ears look like ruffles....the reason I started doing taxidermy comercially....that is what a gipo (as in cheap) haxidermist (as in a hack doing taxidermy) is....