Skeletons.

Sweet! Are you glueing the pieces together or wire method? I'm thinking I'm gonna try the super glue method first

I strung galvanized wire down the vertebra and yes hot glue since it is my first time

Keep posting pics as you work on this :)

Here's some of the stuff I have going on a shelf in the snake room.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/enehyves.jpg antelope skull I believe one of my dads friends found it out west elk hunting.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/nybymu2e.jpg fox skull
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/py9y5y3u.jpgshark jaw
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/ubedugur.jpg my little gator I got my first time in Florida when I was eight
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/a6eme2a3.jpgmuskrat skull from one I trapped.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/7y9adydu.jpg found this on the beach when I was eight in Florida too ha
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/majegumy.jpg my grandma got me these I think I have a couple more tho. She passed away few years ago :( and last http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/08/vevy3a2a.jpg my little six point on a big shed horn my dad found

Just wanted to pop in to say your projects are cool.

I have minimal experience with animal bones (aside from digging them up), but have a lot of experience with human bones. I personally own 1 male adult skeleton, and have worked with many others.
I'm now working with fetal, infant and child skeletons.

Maybe one day I'll string my human together!

That's cool I wish I could afford a human one they outta my price range right now but a articulated one would be super cool any pics?

How does one, and why does one for that matter, trap a muskrat...?

I don't even want to know how much a human one would cost/what the requirements would be to get one now a days.

My father purchased it in the late 1970s or early 1980s I do believe, and I'm sure it was much easier to get a hold of them then.

I take a lot of Osteo courses, so it got passed on to me.

I don't have pictures on this computer, but he just looks like a normal, clean, bleached laboratory skeleton.

I worked with a skeleton in the summer that was uncleaned, unbleached and over half a millenia old, though. He was missing a lot of his bones. If you want to see him, send me a message and I can show you.
I would rather my work not be posted on a public forum.

K ill do that. I like the human ones cuz emt right now and when I finish my fire man course taking paramedic haha

I like that muskrat skull.

Thought you might enjoy some of these.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/09/ysadyzub.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/09/ja3yju5e.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/09/6evasa2u.jpg

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A bunch of goodies in the deep
Freeze.
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Dude I want your deep freeze!! If you ever have a passed away snake you want to sell I would be so interested haha I know weird I just seen one in there so I figured asking you wouldn't seem weird haha. Are those bats in there? If I find a dead bat around this year I'm gonna grab it up ha I find them alot up here. And you have some cool skulls I wanna visit your place dude you got so much cool stuff! O an muskrat was my first one I'm gonna try bleaching then painting it one day just for poops and giggles lol

I ment muskrat was the first one I trapped not first skull lol

If I ever get one I can part with.
That's one of my Carpet girls that passed away with cancer a couple of months ago :(

Yep I have 2 bats in there. A bunch of small furry types. I keep thinking I'll do something with them one of these days.

I'll look around this week and see what else I can dig up to share.

Oh and that fox skull is pretty freaking cool too :D

O ya I'd never ask you to part with one you couldn't that's why it's a weird request lol I didn't know how quite to word it. I've read that the Beatle way off cleaning will keep the bones connected still so you can place them how you want then spray a sealer on it an that will freeze it in place. Not sure on it yet tho I may try it this summer if I come across a good bat.

I was so excited when my co-worker found a cormorant under the boat lift dock at work. I'm a sucker for bird skulls. I've worked with some rats and partial roadkill for articulations (and craft bits, depends on what it is)


Pets can be hard to work with. I've always wanted to articulate a cat skeleton in a reclined pose to guard the book shelf, but they're very expensive. My cat has been buried long enough that I know there's a perfectly good skeleton to work with, but I just can't bring myself to use him :(

I also read that they keep almost everything intact. When boiling and bleach can loosen up some parts of the nasal cavity. I would love to work with them some day, I wish I had a shed or something out back.

I stopped the other day to pick up a huge deer but it was rank :p

In the summer I find dead snakes on our driveway at work. If I find anything thats in pretty good shape, I'll send it out to you.

Bird skulls are really cool.

I'm glad there are others out there that like this stuff :p

That would be awesome, I'm thinking a tub of the flesh eaters in my shed for summer wouldnt be bad and I could get the skeletons easier. I'm upset the rat I wanted to work with died in his cage when I was at work an I didn't find him till next morning stank and chewed on I had no desire to use him so ill try again another time. He had some weird brain problem I think and the cage mates chewed after he died.

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I'm glad there are others out there that like this stuff :p

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Your telling me haha my mom says I'm weird lol I can't help it all this stuff is cool to me it's why I'm an emt and after my fireman schooling am doing paramedic :) medical minded and a tad weird haha

I've had a lot of luck letting the flesh rot off. Definitely not a pleasant experience (I wouldn't be able to do it this way if I didn't have an old chicken coop so it's isolated smell and scavenger wise) but the bones turn out beautifully with a rinse and a light peroxide wash. Again, not pleasant, but after the carcass or limb has been sitting in a bucket of water for 2-3 months it's a piece of cake

I would post some of my horror prop stuff but I don't think everyone here would want to see it :p
I think you would get a kick out of some of it.
Maybe I can fit in some of the tame stuff :p

So you just throw hole thing in water pull it out and wash it? Do they stay intact like the bugs do? I heard of taking them apart then soaking them

I bet that water was foul haha

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I would post some of my horror prop stuff but I don't think everyone here would want to see it :p
I think you would get a kick out of some of it.
Maybe I can fit in some of the tame stuff :p

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Horror prop stuff! Yes! If they don't wanna see can't they just close their eyes? Haha d

Hey it's art! Right? Haha.

I'll take a look around this week.

Yes it is art an best kind of it haha. One day I want to paint a snake skeleton (big snake) do it in a way it looks metal and have a pray item skeleton also painted by it with the snake striking haha I seen them before but not painted so I wanna do it

That would be pretty cool. I used to spray paint cicada molts silver.

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So you just throw hole thing in water pull it out and wash it? Do they stay intact like the bugs do? I heard of taking them apart then soaking them

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I bet that water was foul haha

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I'm not sure I'd call it intact. All the pieces are there! By the time I rinse/wash it's a pretty foul cocktail, but all the gooey/fleshy parts come off with very little effort, and no damage to the skeleton. I don't have any experience with beetles, just didn't have the resources (or bug friendly house) to do it in but I think it would be kind of fun to have a different kind of functional pet :P

And it is absolutely an art!

So you would glue the bones together or the wire and glue method? Sorry lots of questions just trying to start getting into skeleton articulation. I'm watching aferica on discovery and wow I want a rino skull and as I type this I feel as tho saying that makes me weird haha

I use a wire and glue combination after everything is dried and laid out (usually lots of research goes into the anatomy part). Wish I had my old photos! I gave most of my projects away as gifts and haven't worked on anything in years.

I know what you mean though, I have mixed feelings about having a wishlist of animals who's bones I want to collect :oops: baboon skulls are crazy

It's a wish list you don't tell friends lol. I think I'm gonna try one wire and glue and one just glue see which rat is best. I want a few different ones I wish I could trap where I live now there is a huge skunk around here that I would like to try

Speaking of wish list if anyone ever finds a rattlesnake I would buy that too haha we don't have many wild snakes here we do but not rattlers like I want. I think there is a pit viper in Minnesota tho people tell me so I never seen it

my riding buddy

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/09/6uzasary.jpg

And found this on my phone.
Look away now..... Oh the horror!!! Haha we will start off slow.









http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/09/5a4a3uqu.jpg

Is that a coyote or dog skull? And dude that would be so much fun making horror props that's so cool, do you use clay for the face?

Raccoon skull.

I transferred most of my photos off my phone.
Sculpt it out of clay then make a mold. Once the mold is done you can fill it with latex. It's like a mask.

this was the start of a mask.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/10/eda6a9a2.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/10/6ytyhume.jpg


Here is a Pinhead baby and corpse. :p
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/10/8ususa9u.jpg

I haven't made anything in a few years :/

Those are cool! If I had that talent I'd be making stuff all the time and I'd place them in spots to completely screw with people lol like corpse in a public bathroom

Haha.
Cost and time keeps me from it now.

Now back to skeletons.
I might take a skull or skeleton then fix it back to look like road kill or something. Maybe a zombie dog or something :p

Zombie dog would be perfect for holloween haha I asked my cousin to keep any coyotes or wolves he shoots on his farm so I'm hoping to get one of them soon cuz they getting bad up there he lost a baby cow couple nights ago

I took a walk through the woods yesterday and found nothing.

A wolf would be cool.

I passed a deer the other night that had a good upper half but i had to trade my truck for a tiny car so I can't grab any deer nomore ha if I can get a coon before people smash it I'm always trying but people like to hit them over an over again here

The deer I pass everyday has been there for a while now. If it was warmer it would be clean. I'll wait it out a bit longer.

Ya I have a tiny car now so I can get a motorcycle ha and I don't think ill try putting anything in it. Brush wolves bad around here tho so next time I see one I may have to grab it. I want the skull and if fur is good tan it and use it in the gun case I'm building

Any updates on any projects?
I might pick up that deer today :)


I'm also trying to figure out a way to make a beetle shack out back.

I know that cricket breeders use dermistids and sometimes you'll get one or two in with your crickets.
I might ask the petshop if I can just buy a handful from them.

Nothing new my bull skull is frozen under ground so I've been busting hump to finish my snake and rat room. I just finished rat rack one. If your using tapatalk they have a taxidermy forum on it and people sell those betels for decent price if you look for their adds it doest seem as busy as bp is

I do use it, I'll check it out.
I'll post a pic if I get the deer today :D

K nice is it a buck or doe? When I move outta trailer I wanna save the deer I shoot one year an try a full deer too I think that would be easier than rat bigger at least haha

I think it's a doe.
I have been watching for a few months.

Nice should be fun to work with I wanna have a wolf and a deer skeleton on a mount together think that would be sweet. Gots to slowly learn i guess tho

Wow this thing stinks!!!

bones with fur below!!!!
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