I know if I searched the archives a little more I'd find an answer but I just don't have the time to sit at a computer all day. By leaving my raw skulls in water in a plastic container with a lid and removing loose flesh every week is going to be my plan on cleaning all my skulls. Does this method leave any odd color or dark coloring on the bone. If so will bleaching take it out. Anyone tried this method?
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If you dont have time for the project by spending a few hours reading what myself and a few others have spent DAYS typing out... then maybe this isnt the gig for you. Take the time to read it - its surely a lot less time than what it took us who shared that information to learn it. If you cant take a morning to learn HOW to do it, where are you going to find the time to ACTUALLY do anything?!?!
Earn your stripes...
Normally I would just post the links to the articles that have all the info you need... but COME ON! When you blatantly say you dont have the time to sit at the computer reading for a couple hours on a Saturday morning? MAKE TIME! WE all did when we wrote the stuff out when we could have been doing any number of other (more profitable) things! This is why George calls you all gasoline asses. Quick - someone get me a match...
Before someone else can come on here and slam me again I'd just like to say that I did find my answer in the archives. Thanks.
There are literally a few hundred hours worth of typed information on cleaning skeletons and skulls in the archives. Unless the information is not there (Which there IS some info we haven't covered over and over) many of us don't have the time to re-type it. I agree with Raven on this post.
PA you must have some time because you sure made time to post a smarta$$ remark didn't you.
I have tried and masceration works great if you can keep the water warm. I use this method when I get skulls in bad shape and on the smelly side. Good Luck!
Not the half hour to retype the exact stuff already placed there in the archives. I have 424 very serious contributions to this site - many taking over 1/2 hour or more of my time typing them - I usually don't bother retyping them. I figured to get the heat off Raven who used to field many of the maceration style questions, but got turned off to this site by people wanting to be spoon-fed. I'm sorry I have an attitude at times but Easton is not a newcomer here, and obviously is too damned lazy to do any homework. Just my opinion.
Yup thats pretty much it... between over inflated egos of a couple individuals here (not PA for the record) and the multitude of people who dont want to do ANY work of their own... helping here was about as much fun as banging my head off the wall. My areas of interest here have always been molding/casting and osteological preperations, and like PA I have hundreds of serious posts (and an equal number of not so serious posts Im sure). Id like to think that the time I (and others) took to type out those hundreds of posts will be put to good use in the archives and that my years here have not been a total waste, but they wont if people dont utilize the orange button.