my kick at the cat euro mount

[munch]

thought i would give it a try .still have a little to do but its coming. its a lot of work to clean. i had an idea for a mount too hang it on the wall made from steel what do you guys think.

[taz3]

I like it, it might be cool to paint the steel to look like rusty iron too.

[newbie]

Looks great I like it

[Carnivorous]

Good job!

[Woodspike]

Lookin good!
Which method did you use for cleaning the skull?

[papa bear1]

Great job !!!!! Love the mount. I got mine all done!!!! {need to take pics and post} Thanks for the pics.

[vixenmaster]

Lookin good fer sure

[sportsman70003]

Looks good, I would like that in my House..

[munch]

i skinned and removed as much meat as i could then boiled it .i scraped it then
put it in my sandblast cabinet for getting in cracks .now painting coats of 20%peroxide on it. the arrow head looks much better in person its hard to get a good pic .the paint is the same as i use on my mounts (flat black texture) wish there was a way to make it look a little rusty. i will keep peroxide on it till its really white then clear coat it. this is a first attempt so hope to improve on another. he was just a little 8 but real symmetrical

[j.krug]

Nice job on that deer melon Terry. I like the arrowhead mount bracket too. Great job.

[tman74]

Nothing wrong with that! Nice job Terry!

[VixChix]

Pretty cool Terry!

[Big58cal]

Not bad Terry. I've got mine "working" right now. I prefer the passive method though. Got the skull soaking in water out in the barn. Got it suspended so that the antlers are up out of the water and check the water about once a week for any evaporation and add more when necessary. Yeah, it stinks when you get close to it, but luckily the wind blows away from the house.

Mix up a paste of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda and paint it on the skull and let it sit for about an hour. Take a water hose and wash it off and see how white it is. If you didn't get what you wanted, apply more of the paste and let it sit for another hour or so.

Whatever you do, don't use straight bleach! The bleach will eat the bone away!

Boiling the skull will also harm the bone to some extent, so that's why I prefer to soak mine and let the flesh come off that way. Yeah, it takes longer, but what the heck. I'm pretty patient. I don't have access to any of the beetles, so it's either soak it or boil it. If you live down south somewhere, you can actually find a fire ant mound and put the skull on top of it and the buggers will clean it up pretty quick also. Gotta make sure though that no other critters make off with it.

This one that I'm doing now, I'm going to try to keep the bottom jaw with it. I've got one one that I did a few years ago by soaking it that turned out pretty well. Figured I'd try to be a little different on this one.

I posted this last year, but here's a site for some custom made euro display stands.

http://www.racplaques.com/

This is not a big company, just a regular guy in North Carolina that is trying to make a little cash. He makes a good product and doesn't try to rape anyone with the price either. I've gotten some of his stuff and will be getting another one for the one I've got in the barn.

[Raymond]

Looks pretty good to me. Congrats Terry. Thanks for sharing it.
Raymond

[Sliver]

Looks good to me

Nice job Terry!