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Re: Name that skull!
Found a dog skull the other day actually.
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Re: Name that skull!
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Originally Posted by recycling goddess
Those are awesome!
Is there anything i can do to keep the bottom jaw on, but still be able to move it up and down?
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i have no idea... i just leave mine sitting on a shelf... i don't play with them LOL
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Originally Posted by jamesw
Those are awesome!
Is there anything i can do to keep the bottom jaw on, but still be able to move it up and down?
wire around the hinges.
~mike
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Is there anything i should do to preserve it?
That's entirely up to you! I usually don't use anything, but on a few, I have. On one cat skull (that, um, i didn't REALLY clean very well...) I used some clear primer (?) paint. That made it real nice and shiny, and since I was lazy about cleaning it (i did a little work, not much, just enough to make it okay to handle), it seems to have stopped any smell from seeping through. I mean, I don't know if it ever would have smelt, but I used the clear paint, anyway. It smells like nothing, now. I just hung it from a bar on the trampoline, sprayed 1 coat, waited 3 hours, sprayed another and hung it in the garage for a few days. It is now in front of my television, lookin' nice and slick/shiny. I don't particularly care for the unnatural look of it up-close, but from a distance, it still looks like a natural skull.
On one of my coyote skulls and on ALL of my jaw bones with teeth intact, I always use some brush-on super glue to keep the teeth from falling out. I lost one of my 'yote's teeth and that was the last time I skipped out on reinforcing them. Anything that's missing teeth just looks a little awkward to me. ;) Also, brush-on super glue can be used as a sort of a brace to keep fragile bone from splitting, if it's already cracked.
These are just my own practices. I'm sure everyone that does the scavenging-thing has their own ways, but these are what work for me, so I stick to them.
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Originally Posted by recycling goddess
Gorgeous, Aleesha! Thank you for sharing! :) They look so clean, but the color of them doesn't seem very altered. I always appreciate natural-looking bone, compared to what some people do to it (spray paint it {or bleach it} white or black! yuck!) Of course, I've seen lots of skulls that have gorgeous paintings on them. I've even painted some Egyptian symbols on a few of mine, and a simple Native American-like deer with night time background.
The coyote & horse ones made me squee with joy. Hehe. :D
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Very cute flower! Nice collection...
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thanks. the flower is in the *cough* bullet hole *cough* and so she keeps it with the flower to see the skull rather than the cause of it's demise. not that the cause bothers her, it's just nicer to look at the skull rather than the hole :P
after all, my mom is a high priestess crone... she has so many dead things in her freezer. you don't go for icecream in the dark let me tell you... you definitely want a light on when you go into the freezer!
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