Christmas Mounts

I've got about 30 deer done so far that should be picked up this week, I usually try to get any "kids first mounts" done by Christmas and then crank out as many as I can so I'm done by march 1st

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Get ready for M.T. to chime in on this. ;D

 

I have a couple. I always seem to get these requests. At least half the time they don't pick it up until after Christmas. I really think it would be wise to charge a premium if past a date that you determine.

 

M.T. ......

M.T. is the only person I know that can take in a fish on Christmas morning and have it finished in the customer's hands on Christmas Eve!



Kerby...

 

As for me I get that asked so much,so I say the price is double cause. I just have to explain to my other clients why your piece got done before theirs. After that they say I can wait. lol

 

I almost always try to get the mounts done for Christmas if it's for a kid's present. If it's for a normal customer, it gets done in the order in which it came in unless it's a quickie like a Euro, or they pay more.

 

I tell them it'll be done by Christmas next year.
This year? antlers on a plaque or something like that is do-able, but, otherwise, they can wait for a quality mount instead of a rush job I'm not satisfied with.

 

I try to do as many as possible the tips are great.

 

Got a request to do those Two that I wanted that tutorial on from Cecil and got stiffed for the first time. Both phone numbers were supposedly wrong numbers. Yet I called the one last week and told the lady the mounts would be done and she was happy and said she would pass the word on to her husband. This week, when I called and said they were done,she said, I had the wrong number and, she was not the one I talked to and she had this phone number for 2 months.Hope for the Grandsons sake he does not remember grand-pop saying he was going to get them for a Christmas present

 

I look at it this way. I got good experience on the half cast method. Thank you again for that great tutorial Cecil and a Very Merry Christmas to all you fish heads

 

Wrote and article about this subject once Cecil great Poll!!!! Check is coming out to you and Have a great holiday Cecil!

Merry Christmas

Rick krane

 

Update on those two fish with good news. The lady just called today and said she was very sorry that they done me the way they did, and they were going to come over and pick up the fish tomorrow,and pay the bill in full. Guess everything has a way of working out if you just leave it rest.

 

Don't do many fish anymore . Got a real job! Anyways. I have been known to hold a blow dryer before.

 

I say if I'm ahead of schedule I'll try to get it done for xmas. No guarantee tho. (only if it's a kids)

I've rushed mounts for a few in the past...
once for a deer that was entered in the classics.. I bumped it ahead to meet the deadline for the entry.
once a deer head for a girls bday (I knew the father so I had to)
Once a deer head for a guy who was moving out of state
once for a duck that was for military on leave during certain days to pick it up
and yearly for a few guys from purto-rico who come for every opening week deer season... I guarantee their deer will be done when they are back in the country next year (which usually works for me cause I get to put them on hold for a few months lol)