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Canada Goose, No Wing Bone

Discussion in 'Bird Taxidermy' started by allison1952, Aug 4, 2020.

  1. allison1952

    allison1952 Member

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    can anyone give me some insight on mounting a flying canada goose with no wing bone, best procedure.. appreciate any and all help
     
  2. Wildthings

    Wildthings Well-Known Member

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    None at all? Humerus? Ulna? Radius? Both sides?
     
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  3. allison1952

    allison1952 Member

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    No, its completely shattered, on one side,any advice that will work or best to go with a standing mount??appreciate all..
     
  4. crablover

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    Select the right size oak dowel and drill the ends to except the right size wire and epoxie in place. You can then wrap as normal. The whole wing can be rebuilt this way, by dowel size choice, articulating in wire and wrapping. I use jeweler's tow for rebuilding legs, necks and legs. Good luck
     
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  5. Wildthings

    Wildthings Well-Known Member

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    Run a wire into the wrist joint like normal, measure the length of the radius of the other wing and make your bend there on the base wire. Measure the humerus length and mark it on the base wire. As crablover mentions above take some type of medium, wooden dowels, pieces of fiberglass/carbon arrows (thanks Brooke), tubing etc and wrap, tape or whatever them to the main base wire. Effectively rebuilding the bones. If you have pieces of the shattered bones I have used them and superglue/boraxed them back into place also. Just McGyver it
     
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  6. allison1952

    allison1952 Member

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    thanks for the advice everyone, we'll give it a try, thanks again
     
  7. byrdman

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    go buy a whole turkey