My first skeleton mount

OK. I've mustered the courage to post....my first skeleton mount. It's a raccoon.

I haven't finished. I still need to do the ankles and feet.

I have 2 ribs left over, too.... LOL : One side of the ribcage looks good, the other....well.....let's just say, I learned on that side!

feedback? (gulp)

Eliz

 

Well, God's little helpers cleaned the bones for me bigtime.... literally. ha ha

I found it nice and clean in my front yard one spring.... tucked away by the stone wall.

It's a bit amazing that no animal walked away with the bones...that has always shocked me.

Anyway, I picked it up and brought it inside. Simmered it in borax. Rinsed. voila.

Never used hydrogen peroxide (I didn't know about it....)

I used hydrogen peroxide on everything now. -Eliz

 

Here's something funny....

The poles holding the raccoon up are actually copper pipes that were running through my basement ceiling as of a few weeks ago. I needed some pipe and my husband said, "here use this....RIP...I don't think it was doing anything..."

;D

 

Thanks for the nice words...

It does take time.....(mine took about 3 years....!!! But that's because I'm a moron...)

I found a glue gun sped things up a thousand percent.

I'm told glue guns don't hold up over time, but I figure when it does start falling apart, I'll know what I'm doing (hopefully by then!) and be able to redo it all, correctly. ha ha