I am going to skin me a badger tommorrow and i want to make sure i am goin to make the best and easiest incision possible. It is going to be a walking mount. Should i cut it on the belly and slit each let or should i skin from the back side of the mount where it wont show. Under the belly would make alot of sewing and if i cut it on the opposite side i would have to cut from leg to leg on the animals right side. I dont think i want to cut it directly on the back because i dont want my incision to show at all.
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you are using a "storebought" foam form, I suggest a dorsal incision.
I would suggest a dorsal cut. It makes it easy to put the hide on the form and adjust it and the sewing is minimal. Don't worry about your seem showing. Badgers have long hair, and you would have to be a pretty lousy sewer (is that spelled right?)for the seem to show through those thick long hair. You'll be doing just fine with a dorsal cut. Good luck.
People who make dorsal cuts haven't figured out how to cut the mannikins yet. (LMAO Evelyn, I know it's coming. Let me have it.) I case cut or ventral cut all small game animals so I don't have to sew up a "show side" in any way. With a badger, it would be a ventral cut as its squatty legs would hide any sloppy seam work.
But I would not go straight down the back I would make it slightly to one side so the seem hair will not stand out as bad as it would straight down the back.
Todd B.
I can't help it honey that in forty years yer haven't learned how to sew properly and do a decent seam. Sewing up a dorsal cut is a lot less work, with the same great results, then cutting and regluing a form. Why create more work for you then necessarry? Ah I forgot, you don't know how to sew Geo. LMAO
It probably won't help, though. You and he'd be harmonizing and the lesson would fly right over your head. LOL. You must dye your hair. I know you're a blonde. LMAO
BTW, the lesson taught long before you and I were ever born is one where NOTHING holds like the original and if you don't cut the original, you don't have to settle for an inferior sewing job to hold you up. And ALL sewing jobs are inferior.