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Use the skull the bird come with, correct size all the time, its just that easy!
I make all my own bird bodies, they are the best!
I suggest degreasing it properly , solvent degreaser, put it back through the process.
Assuming the capes were handled correctly at the tannery, and you processed the capes when received in a timely manner, I would think the problem...
I use the same method for fur dressing, fur pieces, garment, wall hangers, and mounting whole mammals, the only thing different finishing.
They do not look fully hydrated, how long did you soak them in plain cold water? Also I looked on a bottle of dawn dish soap, I can not see any...
Hydrate flint dried skins fully as if you just removed them from the animal, then pickle fully takes a few days, remove the membrane, then...
Also agitate often speeds up hydration.
Hydrate 3 to 5 hours in cold water, no need to add salt, its just that easy!
Depends on how skilled or how much experience you have in dressing furs, if you do not send the skin out its just that easy.
If you do not have access to a drum or hardwood saw dust, you can achieve the desired finish by using cornmeal rubbing it deep into the fur, then...
Pickling of the skin does a couple things, changes the electric charge of the atoms there by setting them up to contract a bond with tanning...
Yes heat would speed up the fatty acids working on the skin, and no after this reaction it will not be reversible.
Yes they do , I hunt sharptails every year, I shoot them sitting in brush, sitting on bails, fence posts, rocks, sitting in trees, on the ground,...
For one thing 16- 20 hours is way too long to re- hydrate a thin skinned flint dried fox, I would say agitate in re-hydration bath of cold water...
Yes you can relax the hide and apply proper amount of lube, and as it starts to dry start breaking it and continue till dry. Deer skins are one of...
I might as well be the one to bust your bubble of fun, but it is unlawful to sell migratory birds in North America, and Canada is included!
When I was a child growing up and practicing taxidermy back in the 60s i mounted almost every breed of pigeon there is, Jackobins, English trumps...
Degreasing beavers with dawn dish soap Good luck! use a acid pickle other than aluminium sulphate, you will be subjecting the skins to H2 so4...
I do not use a fleshing knife on fox, fox have very thin skin, all you have to do is scrape the bigger chunks of fat off the fresh skin then place...
