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I have recently started cleaning various skulls for myself and have decided to offer this service to others also.
I am brutally honest. I want you to know there are many ways out there to clean a skull. Skulls can be boiled until the meat falls off, or soaked for weeks in a water solution letting bacteria destroy the meat (known as maceration). Both of these allow the fat to soak into the bone, causing yellowing in the skull mount.
I use Dermestid beetles to prepare my mounts. When these little soldiers are thru cleaning a skull they leave nothing behind. They clean the smallest of holes that hold flesh that can?t be cleaned by almost any other methods.
I then ?bleach? the skulls. Not actual bleach. A medical grade peroxide. 35%, not to be confused with 40% BY VOLUME that some people get from beauty supply houses that is actually only 15% peroxide. I usually leave the skulls in the solution for 10-14 days to achieve a bleach white skull.
The whole process takes about 3-4 weeks depending on how many skulls may be before yours.
Now for the thing everyone really cares about. PRICE
All prices below are as if I do all the work:
1. Skinning, eye removal, brain removal, all excess flesh removed
2. Cleaning by BUGS
3. Bleaching
4. Plaque (if skull requires it, MOSTLY only Deer Skulls)
You can reduce your cost by doing #1, and #4 by yourself. That reduction in cost will depend upon each type of skull. To be discussed over the phone.
Deer????????????........... 90.00
Hog??????????. small 45.00
Med 65.00
Large 90.00
Beaver, Fox, Bobcat, Coyote ??? 40.00
Alligator????????????..... 10.00 / inch
Small birds, Squirrel, rodents???? 25.00
Other pricing for miscellaneous animals to be discussed.
I am always trying to enlarge my collection of Skulls, if you can offer a skull to me that I don?t already have, I will do you a skull for at least 50% off.
All skulls need to be legal to take and ready to sign documents or produce documents that show it was a legal animal.
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I am brutally honest. I want you to know there are many ways out there to clean a skull. Skulls can be boiled until the meat falls off, or soaked for weeks in a water solution letting bacteria destroy the meat (known as maceration). Both of these allow the fat to soak into the bone, causing yellowing in the skull mount.
I use Dermestid beetles to prepare my mounts. When these little soldiers are thru cleaning a skull they leave nothing behind. They clean the smallest of holes that hold flesh that can?t be cleaned by almost any other methods.
I then ?bleach? the skulls. Not actual bleach. A medical grade peroxide. 35%, not to be confused with 40% BY VOLUME that some people get from beauty supply houses that is actually only 15% peroxide. I usually leave the skulls in the solution for 10-14 days to achieve a bleach white skull.
The whole process takes about 3-4 weeks depending on how many skulls may be before yours.
Now for the thing everyone really cares about. PRICE
All prices below are as if I do all the work:
1. Skinning, eye removal, brain removal, all excess flesh removed
2. Cleaning by BUGS
3. Bleaching
4. Plaque (if skull requires it, MOSTLY only Deer Skulls)
You can reduce your cost by doing #1, and #4 by yourself. That reduction in cost will depend upon each type of skull. To be discussed over the phone.
Deer????????????........... 90.00
Hog??????????. small 45.00
Med 65.00
Large 90.00
Beaver, Fox, Bobcat, Coyote ??? 40.00
Alligator????????????..... 10.00 / inch
Small birds, Squirrel, rodents???? 25.00
Other pricing for miscellaneous animals to be discussed.
I am always trying to enlarge my collection of Skulls, if you can offer a skull to me that I don?t already have, I will do you a skull for at least 50% off.
All skulls need to be legal to take and ready to sign documents or produce documents that show it was a legal animal.
[email protected]
