How should I preserve my first head, pic below?
a) Stuff it? How much would this cost? Anyone near Cambridge?
b) Get all skin/flesh off and keep the skull?
Any idea how much a) would cost?
Any good links to descriptions how to do b) in a normal home?
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So did you shoot this last night?
If so, nice one.....
Wow! Perfect... head now immersed in water, trip to chemists coming up...
Many thanks,
Peter
Stig,
the chemist might ask what the hydrogen peroxide is for...I once told them the truth and they refused to sell it to me! tell them it's either for cleaning a wound or for gargling, and it was recommended by your physician.
Chemist have been told to be careful selling h2o2 as it can be used as an accelerant in bomb making
£380.00 for a shoulder mount.how should i preserve my first head, pic below?
A) stuff it? How much would this cost? Anyone near cambridge?
B) get all skin/flesh off and keep the skull?
Any idea how much a) would cost?
Any good links to descriptions how to do b) in a normal home?
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b) is easy enough, remove the lower jaw and then skin the head, remove eyes, tongue, ears and all that. Decide how you would like to mount it, I usually come though the back of the skull at an angle and through the bottom of the eye sockets and out through the nose. Some people prefer diff angles and I believe buchwear sell a jig. Scoop out the grey matter then place the skull in a boiling pan, fill with water to just below the pedicles and boil for a good few hours till all the ligaments, meat and sinew easily lift off. I then give it a blast with a steam cleaner and leave it to dry. Once dry I get some peroxide bleach (buy from hairdressers) and soak some cotton wool pads in it, lay on skull and leave to bleach for a few hours. Buy a mounting kit, mount and jobs a gooden.
There are also larder beetles? which you can buy from somewhere which will basically clean the head for you given enough time. I also new another stalker who used to tie em to a high branch in a tree and leave em for a few months as the sun will naturally bleach the bone!!
Chemist have been told to be careful selling h2o2 as it can be used as an accelerant in bomb making
this inspires me to share a chemist joke with you:
whats H20? ans water
whats H2O2? ans hydrogen peroxide
whats H2O4?
wait for it
Ans: drinking