Here is a new tip on hiding holes in a skin to be mounted!

 

    Now most of the time now days most taxidermist will order a form from a supply company
and spend their hard earned money on forms that don't usually fit and that cost way to much .
Even more most video's now days also will show you how to use their brand name of forms to a person and show them how to put that mount together their way! And many forms that do fit will make a new student of this art look like a pro but don't teach him or her any thing as far as mounting the piece from the beginning .  This is a shame that the art of taxidermy is being lost !
Now I'm going to start showing some of the ways I do mounts and show how to put cash back into your pocket by doing some of the old methods that has been around for many years.

   Most of the pieces that come through my shop are carved  even if they as small as a mouse or as big as a black bear! So I have just gotten a couple of new video cameras and have decided to make a few new video on how to do taxidermy out of the old box of the company's that have put a lot you in.
So keep your eyes open and learn some new stuff! I have been in the art of taxidermy for the past 43 years and taught this for a community collage for most of ten years.

My shop is now a proud sponsor of the TV show Trophy Room Adventures of the Pursuit Channel.

Here are a few mounts I had carved and hope to show you how to do later!

This piece was carved this past week and it turned out nice!

This big buck is for the T V show Trophy Room Adventures on the Pursuit Channel

and is called the Saw Mill Buck, harvested by the shows

 host Scott Martin of Traphill N.C.

This bear is for  Fay Martin of Dobson N.C.

This form  is made of 2" insulation blue foam board and 

                                                        the head is of auto body filler and fiberglass.

Pre fitting the hide on the form.

The hide was tanned in the shop also!

I'm starting to finish this mount up.

A little more work and painting this mount will be  finished soon.

 
 Here are a couple of mount's I did this past fall and will be showing more soon!
This bobcat was harvested last winter of 2015 by Mr. Marty Robertson of Mt. Airy N.C. .

The squirrel was for Mrs. Rita Irwin of Elkin N.C.
It was a small mount and turned out real nice. This form was carved out from a piece of blue builders foam.

Fixing a deer antler burr!

              Many times when a lot of taxidermist mount a deer head the cape hide will pull down below
the base of the antler after drying for several weeks or a customer takes their mount home will notice the hide is  pulling away from the base. Now  I have a way to fix this and it is not hard to do! Also it can be a quick way to pickup extra cash to fix old mounts!
 This is a video I made several years ago and posted it on youtube , but now I going to post this on my taxidermy blog and hope you can use this. So thanks and enjoy!!

                                                               

How to make hide paste for taxidermy.

Here is a video on making dextrin  glue glue from corn starch .