Best way to bleach fallow buck

[scarter]

Hi there
I am new to doing this. I have the skull clean and ready. What’s the best way to bleach please? I have a bottle of 12% peroxide and this powder from bushwear. Do I use the peroxide in with the powder or is there just a much easier way with the peroxide?
Many thanks

 

[T.eddie]

I just use peroxide personally, it pour it in and on and leave it, checking regularly

 

[trucraft]

If you’ve got the straight peroxide, it’s the cheapest option usually. Just put the skull in a plastic tray stuff all the cavities with loads of cotton wool and wrap the exterior of the skull with cotton wool and then wet it all with the peroxide and leave.
helps to do it straight after, boiling I find.

 

[scarter]

So do you need to submerge the whole skull in peroxide or just pour it over then re apply more after a few hours or so?

 

[T.eddie]

I sit it in a deep pot and pour it over, then every few hours or so I put on some gloves and use my hand to scoop the peroxide on top again, though I think this could be avoided if you put tissue or cotton wool on the skull before the peroxide

 

[scarter]

Ok so the peroxide holds in the wool basically keeping it coated ?

 

[T.eddie]

Yeah that's my understanding, I've just never had any to hand when I've been doing it

 

[ofbiro]

I agree with using cotton wool soaked with peroxide, but then I put the skull inside a plastic box covered with a lid, to prevent light (ultraviolet rays, probably) to decompose the peroxyde.

 

[ChrisWill184]

All I have ever done is taken the 12% peroxide and ‘painted’ it on. Leave it to stand for a day on some old paper or card and then washed it off the next day. That is it. It is thick enough that it stays on. Don’t have to keep it submerged and doesn’t need to be bathed in the stuff.

I have done what must be over 100 roe like that and a few reds so it definitely works. If you are just doing one then fair enough and use as much as you like but I am a tight git and using that much peroxide would become expensive!

 

[cjm1066]

I use kitchen roll instead of wool and place the skull in a plastic bag which I squeeze against the skull.

 

[scarter]

Thanks everyone for your advice doesn’t seem to terrible at all.

 

[scarter]

All I have ever done is taken the 12% peroxide and ‘painted’ it on. Leave it to stand for a day on some old paper or card and then washed it off the next day. That is it. It is thick enough that it stays on. Don’t have to keep it submerged and doesn’t need to be bathed in the stuff.

I have done what must be over 100 roe like that and a few reds so it definitely works. If you are just doing one then fair enough and use as much as you like but I am a tight git and using that much peroxide would become expensive!

Chris have you got an easy method of mounting onto a plaque? I’ve seen people on YouTube just using 1 screw into the flat piece on the back of the skull

 

[ChrisWill184]

My dad does it that way. I’ve got to to say, fallow are a bit larger than roe so if one of them came down, it might be a bit of a mess! Saying that though, I have only used the one method as I don’t use plaques.

A piece of wire in through the back of the skull, with both ends coming out of the hole to the neck (sorry, my English is carp!). Tie the wire into a loop. I would attach/screw in some sort of hook onto the plaque and basically hang it off.

I’ve attached a few photos that I have, some with roe and the others a single fallow. The fallow is at about 7ft off the ground so you can’t see the fixing.

On the roe, the wire is on the outside as you can stick it up without it wanting to fall off the wall. Different with fallow and red.

 

[Pete6.5]

In the good old days I used to buy big bottles of 35 percent peroxide and I would fully submerge the head in it then put it out in the sunshine for a few hours. But now we can't be trusted to buy big quantities of 35 percent peroxide

 

[Mick9abf]

Chris have you got an easy method of mounting onto a plaque? I’ve seen people on YouTube just using 1 screw into the flat piece on the back of the skull

For peroxide I use a cleaned windowlean spray bottle and decant the peroxide and spray it straight on then put out in the sun.

I do all my heads really with one screw, sometimes two if it’s a red. I drill a 1mm pilot when cut into the thick bit of bone that runs from the skull towards the nose and use a self tapper hand tight and haven’t had any issues yet.

I’ve also filled the brain cavity with white tac before and pushed it onto a screw on the shield as the type of trophy traditionally has quite an unusual cut but it would also work with roe.


That’s one screw as described on my Xmas effort.

 

[ChrisWill184]

Ah! I’ll have to try the spray gun.