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How to make a European skull mount
JW_Halverson:
I've washed with Dawn detergent with some luck, but the soak in white gas works best. I tried the technique of soaking in water with lye dissolved, but ended up eating too much of the cartilage matrix that the calcium bonds onto.
osage outlaw:
So far, I have had good luck soaking and scrubbing with really hot water and dawn soap.
oldgun:
Did I miss it or what did you do with the lower jaw bones???
osage outlaw:
I didn't like the way they looked on the skull once it was done. I have been keeping the jawbones from different aged deer to use as a field aging tool. I am working on a cow elk skull and I am going to put the lower jaw back on it when I am done.
Another thing I have learned this year is that the warmer the peroxide, the better it works. When it got really cold, it didn't whiten the skulls as white as they should have been. I had to paint them with the cream and then wrap them in plastic cling wrap and sit them in front of a heater. That did the trick.
osage outlaw:
Here is how the cow elk turned out. I used the bottom jaw on this one.
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