[spike camp]

5 hour boiling with 1 cup of salt then you don't need to power wash it, just did one last weekend

Would you mind posting a picture?

 

[Verminaters1967]

Would you mind posting a picture?

I will later tonight maybe not what your looking for I painted the head black out lined in green and wood stain the antlers., I didn't do the classic white because every one does that .

 

[XxOHIOARCHERxX]

I bought a metal tub, double propane burner and added dawn soap and borax. Boiled for 1.5 hrs then took out to power wash put back in with just dawn n fresh water n boiled for 1hr, took out n power washed. Once dry I used that peroxide hair lightener stuff(somthing 40), to bleach. Turned out fantastic

 

[deadwooddan]

Unless you are in a hurry. We learned the easy way...just let the head sit in a 5 gallon bucket of water until late Spring/early Summer. In Illinois the water usually freezes and you need to keep animals away from it so just putting a garbage can over top will do or if he's really big we've cut down a 55 gal plastic barrel. As Spring and warm weather comes the bugs, nautral things do their job and you need to add water as it evaporates. When you can pull the head out and things are really dripping off and bugs have done the job. A quick fast wash with mild power washer does the job; does not take much mostly to get the brains out. You may have to prop the antlers out of the water so they do not stain. Just found this method to be better. Do not have to stain skull after either comes out nice and naural white.

 

[spike camp]

Unless you are in a hurry. We learned the easy way...just let the head sit in a 5 gallon bucket of water until late Spring/early Summer. In Illinois the water usually freezes and you need to keep animals away from it so just putting a garbage can over top will do or if he's really big we've cut down a 55 gal plastic barrel. As Spring and warm weather comes the bugs, nautral things do their job and you need to add water as it evaporates. When you can pull the head out and things are really dripping off and bugs have done the job. A quick fast wash with mild power washer does the job; does not take much mostly to get the brains out. You may have to prop the antlers out of the water so they do not stain. Just found this method to be better. Do not have to stain skull after either comes out nice and naural white.

Maceration does work well, especially at keeping the spiral olfactory bones in tact, but it leaves a lot of time for the fats to absorb into the bone, so it’s more difficult to get everything white, if that’s the look one is after.

 

[vizslaridge]

I got an aluminum pot at a garage sale... looks like a commercial grade older one... should fit in perfectly and the rim holds up the antlers. Aside from that...I set my on my side burner for my grill. Let's it simmer nicely for as long as I need. I used to simmer pull it out and remove what I could then back in... and so on. But that took hours and I'm impatient. I now boil it quickly trim what I can... another quick boil and then I bungee it to a fence post and use a pressure washer. I sacrifice the cartilage but it cuts my time by more than half.

 

[Verminaters1967]

Here's mine:

 

[Shosky]

The best instruction I’ve come across on homemade euro mounts (for me, anyway) has been from watching Whitebone Creations channel on YouTube. Simple, straight forward approach that results in gorgeous euros. And nicely done videos!

 

[archeryfanatic1]

I have a friend who teaches animal chiropracty, who has dermestids (flesh eating beetles). Does wonders for any skull including deer and bear or whatever.

 

[Nanuk360]

Never new the heating trick with schedule 40

I wrap bases with Saran and Electrical tape , simmer in dawn liquid soap and clean skull periodically removing scum from the skull as well as the water . Once cleaned and dried, I brush the sch40 and let sit overnight. Redo do if not white enough .

 

[gutshotem]

Fill up a pot with just enough water to cover the skull. Add a few drops of dawn and 2 teaspoons of borax. After bringing the water to a rolling boil, dump it out and take the head to someone with beetles. Crack a beer and smile knowing that you didn't blast yourself with rotten flesh and brain matter using a pressure washer after you boiled it for 2 hours.

 

[Oldloggy]

Turkey fryer burner and a pot that’s big enough.

Yes thats what we use

 

[Oldloggy]

Schedule 40 after to whiten it up, some hair salon product. I wrap the bases with saran wrap also.

We just put peroxide on the skull. Set in the sun for a few hrs

 

[Blackeagle1]

Mountain Mike skull kit, sawzall, drill screwdriver. Done. Lol no fuss, no muss

 

[Mike.Rotch]

Always cut the hide off the head and pull the eyeballs. Removing the brain is just as important. That can be done quickly with a folded in half clothes hanger.

Put borax and dawn dish soap in your boiling water. The borax is a drying agent. You can have your head completely defleshed in a couple hours with no pressure washer. Use pliars and picks to remove the meat and you can spray with a normal hose. Remove nasal bones completely. A BRASS wire brush will work wonders. Put borax on stubborn areas and rub it in. This will dry those areas and allow them to co

The very tiny pieces of flesh will be burned off with the 40 volume peroxide.

Put a grocery bag over each antler and tape around the base. Apply 40 volume CREAM, wrap in seran wrap and let sit for 24 hours. Pull seran wrap off and rinse. Let dry in sun if possible. Finished.

anywhere the peroxide touches will turn white.So it’s best to completely cover antlers through all of this.

Besides the whitening part, it should take no more than 3 hours to clean the skull.

 

[hobbs4421]

That buck looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!

 

[1st N 74]

I mix the whitening cream with whitening powder then brush on skull with small brush, when it dries in a couple of days
just brush off. A little tip when power washing put antlers on top of wood pallet it will hold it in all sorts of positions.

 

[Uphunting122]

I have been using an electric turkey roaster the last few years. Works awesome.

 

[Suncrest08]

Learning from my ole lady who is a taxidermist wrap the base and tines about half way up the rack tightly with seran wrap and then wrap in electric tape on top of that to prevent my bleaching of the rack. Make sure you have the head fleshed out the best you can and let it simmer NOT boil. Add a mixture of Dawn soap and oxyclean. Should take anywhere from 3-5 hrs. Power wash every 30min-hour

This to a T is how I have done it for years. I whiten with hair peroxide 40cream for last step tho. I change water out and bring to hot then turn off. Add 3 cups of peroxide 40 and let skull soak in for 40 mins. Make sure you seran wrap and tape bases off good. Will prevent bleaching.

 

[25ft-up]

Have 2 soaking in 5gl buckets from last year. Used to simmer them right away but that took time away during hunting season. Now I skin the head and macerate until I get around to them in the spring. Powerwash then simmer in a metal tub supported by bricks in a fire pit to loosen up anything else. Have branches to burn so it kills 2 birds without any cost. Powerwash again and simmer in dawn and clean water to decrease before using a paste whitener. Only thing with maceration is the skull stinks for a while. I'm going to try soaking them in baking soda before whitening this time.