Skeletons.

Hey everyone I've always found wired together skeletons cool (kinda an nerd haha) an ive decided to try it I've been looking up info an all. An gonna start with a rat since I have extras ha. Does anyone have pics of any skeletons they wired or any they bought wired?

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I have made wind chime / mobiles. And a number of other things. Does that count?

Ha that looks cool is that deer?

That one is tiny. Some type of rodent or rabbit maybe. I used to do special effects makeup and make props etc.
I have all kinds of skulls, bones and a freezer full of stuff :p

You need some flesh eating beetles and veterinary anatomy books

The betels I can't find by me, I burry all my skulls but I think I'm gonna try cold water migration (? Is that what it's called) on a rat here in next few days see how that works. Far as references I don't have the books but I have found good stuff online and good pics so I think I can do it. I need a different drill and bit tho. Dude 3skulls that sounds like a fun job haha

That would be a tiny drill bit.

Wait until spring, find some road kill. After the maggots eat away most of the "wet" matter, the dermistids come and feed on the dry left overs. You can collect them to start a colony or buy them online. If I had a building that wasn't connected to the house I would raise then.
The brains are what really stinks but the beetles go nuts for it.

I have had a full deer on the back porch for a few years, been wanting to wire it together for a while now. Just never get around to it.
I also would like to work with lucite. Maybe stuff some T molts when they get bigger.

Keep us posted with what you come up with.

I have an old chicken house that I have all my skulls in. I keep the heads in the freezer till summer, then I put them out. In 110F weather, you can have a perfectly cleaned skull in about three days.

Ill for sure keep you posted. Winter is the reason deboneing will be hard but I grew up butchering farm animals and I think this cold water way will work if I skin and all that first. Excited to try tho I've wired lots of skulls when I was younger tried with a bull that after it died my cousin accidentally shattered the skull so I tried putting it together after the chickens picked it clean, my mom was very mad haha I was 10 when I did that and my dad let me bring home the pieces lol that was a great night my mom was angry. She later helped me learn how to tan wessels and rabbits tho ha

My favorite find was a full horse, spotless skeleton. A friend of mine saw it a couple of years before. Had train tracks way back on the edge of his land. I'm guessing it got out and got hit :/

I'm sure a lot of people see it as morbid but I was always told that true beauty was on the inside :p

Haven't wired any skeletons yet, but it is something I've wanted to try. I have a small collection of skulls I've found at work (a couple from my yard, gophers), and once in awhile I'll find a complete skeleton. Someone I used to work with had a fox skeleton they wired and glued together. It looked really neat! I do not have pictures of it though.

Look for a Dremel drill. You can get some TINY bits for it that will probably work for these purposes. I have a Dremel and all kinds of bits I use to customize model horses. Have been able to use them on the models that are about 3 or 4 inches tall.

Ya a dremel and 20 g wire is what I was thinking. And 3skulls my family has farms I can get horses, cows goats pigs all that lol I have only gotten a bull skull so far may get this goat he has now tho I like his little horns and he tried eatting my hunting jacket.

If I ever have money laying around for one of these I would have to buy to. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/2yre7u4u.jpg only 16k haha the emt mind of mine wants one tho

$16K?!?!? whoa thats crazy...

You can find them cheaper :)
They won't have many teeth but still would be cool.

http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_family.php?id=227

Ya I've looked around at a few. A lady I used to work with gave me one of those high quilaty human skull models cuz she was going thru a divorce and didn't want her husband taking it.http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/a2a6ete3.jpg she was a rn so every bone is labeled haha

Damn that is a good one!

Ya it's cool it's that weird ceramic stuff she said its made for medical students and she would rather I have it then her sob husband. Better picshttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/7yraveru.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/ju8u6ymy.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/u3edu9yv.jpg I like it it looks like bone till you touch it

That's awesome!

I found those beetles for decent price for starting colony of 1000 question can I feed Ts these beetles too or no cuz I'd rather only have one beetle colony lol

I'm not sure if they would make good feeders or not. Never seen any nutritional info on them.

On the other hand, I wonder if dubias would clean a skull. I have gave them left over pinks and they destroy them in minutes.

Hmmm

That would be something to find out. If a Dubai colony can strip a adult male rat, if you have an extra laying around you should try! Haha

Have you tried preserving any Ts? I've seen on live people did it by just coating the t in poly or something? It looks cool just like the living one

If it was warm out I think I would try it. A rat sitting in a 90* tub would be stinking up the house in no time :p

I did a little searching on dermestids as feeders and can't find anything. Some sites talk about how they add them to roach and cricket colonies to help keep the tubs clean.

I haven't yet. I have done local spiders. Just pinned them and let them dry.

I suppose I never think about how bad it will smell haha. I'm sure ill figure something out. I want to try making one out of a t one day and a snake would be cool I seen a retic skeleton in the local zoo it's sweet

This is something I've been working on:

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Is that a goat? I'm trying to figure out when to start trying this the rat I'm gonna use is just hitting large may give him another week or so to grow. I'm sure the cleaning is gonna be no fun but if I'm able to do it maybe look into beetles

Yeah. That is a goat. A yearling to be specific. I have the horn sheathes off to my left.

I was wondering if goats lost their horn parts like bulls do. I forgot what they called already ha, my cousin has a goat that tried eatting my hunting coat I want his skull

I got a cat skeleton for Christmas. :) going to put it together soon :) ill post pics. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/anysuzyd.jpg
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Ooo cool what company did they go threw? Are you gonna run wire threw each bone or do you super glue bone to bone? I was on a taxidermy forum but noone was posting on skeleton building some cool skull info I really wanna try a bronze painted skull like a guy had done on there

Here is what I wanna do to a skull, better yet do it to a whole rat skeleton before I put it together? Hahahttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/6aga2y8u.jpg

That painted skull is neat! Now I'm thinking of doing that to some of mine.... Off the top of my head, I have a couple oppossum, a horse, goat (complete with nice horns), sheep, big, dog, and a couple gophers. I used to have a cat skull I found under my shed, until something stole it while I had it outside drying. :mad:

The guy said he painted it copper first let it dry then he painted it black and wiped it away before it dried letting it settle in the cracks. I got this guy that may look sweet like that. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/yra2ujut.jpg it's back under ground till spring tho

Cute toes nick.
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There's a guy at the expo who has things like this. Crazy nuts, and expensive too :(

If I become good at it ill give you one for frees haha an I'm cute all over ;) lol

;) oh yes, yes you are.

I'm going to stop and check his prices. I mean, that gtp he did was ridiculous!

I don't think I could do that but bones are really cool. Especially when it's different (like cats, snakes)

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Ya it's cool it's that weird ceramic stuff she said its made for medical students and she would rather I have it then her sob husband. Better picshttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/7yraveru.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/ju8u6ymy.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/29/u3edu9yv.jpg I like it it looks like bone till you touch it

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Man I would love to have that! Coolness. Yeah once I learn more about anatomy I wanna do that. At a summer camp I went to they had the kids try to arrange the bones of a deer correctly on the ground. it was pretty fun!

I will do a snake one day hope ha. I'm gonna try a rat soon as he gets little bigger and see how it goes I wanna make a copper lookin rat

http://www.boneroom.com/bone/budgetskel.htm

Budget skeletons

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Man I would love to have that! Coolness. Yeah once I learn more about anatomy I wanna do that. At a summer camp I went to they had the kids try to arrange the bones of a deer correctly on the ground. it was pretty fun!

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Thanks :) I was pumped when she gave it too me cuz their not that cheap outta my price range at least lol. I've always liked the bones of an animal just how they are made from outside down to genetics I really like I'm a nerd kinda lol

Next trip to my parents I'm getting all my skulls an that an ill post pics of all it i got a good amount lol

I have bone and black wood hanging earrings.

I used to have bone stretching plugs they were 1/2 inch

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My bone plugs were curved like that but flat at the end I didn't have cool ones

Check out the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic. The history behind why they used the bones as they did is what caught my attention about it. That and how unusual it is as far as a church and what they used to "decorate" it. Never actually been there but maybe at some point...anyway, here's a link if you're interested:

http://www.sedlecossuary.com/

A Googel image search has some interesting shots from the interior.

Coming together http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/02/ysuzabap.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/02/ezy2u6yj.jpg