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Cambridge Taxidermy

Cambridge Taxidermy is a full-service taxidermy business located in Cambridge Springs, Pa

01/29/2025

My page has been quiet lately, but don’t be mistaken, I’ve been hard at work!

These are some of the critters put together in the last few weeks.

Chuggin along! 🤘🏼

01/12/2025

Another Ashtabula county buck, ready to rock 🤘🏼🦌

01/11/2025

I feel a snowy photo shoot was appropriate for this stud 🥶 🦌

Another happy customer! 🤘🏼

01/04/2025

On Monday I made a post stating that I was full on critters for the year. I made that decision after getting off the phone with this gentleman.

Aden brought me everything but the kitchen sink this past Tuesday. Previously a member of the Amish community, he told me that he was not allowed to have any of the critters he harvested in the past mounted. So on Tuesday he brought me a beautiful Aoudad he just hunted in Texas, a colorado bull elk he took three years ago, and six whitetail harvested throughout the years. The oldest one taken when he was twelve years old. All of those critters will need spare capes, except for the aoudad.

I am humbled and thankful for the opportunity to take on all of this work. Adens home will go from zero mounts to eight over the next year and a few months 🤘🏼

01/03/2025

This display is just too pretty to not show off 😍🦌

12/30/2024

I have been holding back on making this post, but for the sake of good business, I cannot wait any longer.

I have surpassed the number of critters I am willing to take in a given season, in turn I am closing my books. I will be accepting no new work at this time.

As of right now this seasons workload consists of 95 antlered and horned critters (including whitetail, elk, moose, mule deer, antelope, and an aoudad), 6 bears, a few squirrels, a porcupine, nearly 2 dozen waterfowl, a groundhog, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something.

With such a large queue, my current turnaround time is 13-15 months. Though there are several reasons I’ve made the decision to cut my intake, the ability to continue producing high quality taxidermy and maintaining a reasonable turnaround time are two of the main catalysts.

Thank you to all my supporters for helping make Cambridge Taxidermy what it is today ❤️

12/28/2024

Whitetail are still trickling in the shop!

Congratulations to one of the hardest working farmers I know. Brice Comp dropped this beautiful buck last Saturday. One day before gun season closed in Ohio.

I asked Brice if he was able to get out at all during archery season and he responded with, “I don’t archery hunt anymore. Just way too busy that time of year.” Well, I’m tickled he was able to connect and that he trusted me to bring this dude back to life for him 🤘🏼🦌

12/27/2024

TGIF!

I finished the work week with this ol lady. The official at the check station told my client this sow was approximately 17 years old, by far the oldest bear that I’ve mounted so far. She’s heavily peppered through the face with silver and white hairs.

12/20/2024

Happy Friday, folks!

I just wanted to give you all a little update before we launch into Christmas week.

I caught a nasty bug sometime around Tuesday and I’ve been down and out since then. I will not be available for pickups or drop offs today, as I’m taking it easy, resting up, and trying to beat this thing before the holidays.

As soon as I’m back on my feet, I’ll be hitting it hard to prep, mount, and finish mammals and waterfowl that I took in during the 2023 season. I suspect I’ll be entirely finished with them around the end of January, though some may trickle into February

Here’s to an awesome Christmas and New Year for all of us!

** I mounted the handsome buck in this photo on Monday before I started feeling crummy **

12/15/2024

Yesterday, Ashley and I attended a benefit dinner/ raffle in Ohio that was hosted by a few of my amazing clients.

It was an awesome time meeting new folks and catching up with old friends. And while we were there, I mounted this studly February buck from last season! I wish I had taken more photos, but at least we got a few of the finished mount 😎

12/12/2024

Over 1,500 followers!! 🤯

I’d like to send up a big thank you to my Facebook gang for the support. Folks have asked what I do to advertise. The answer is, very little. I have a business sign out front, I try to keep my page active and entertaining, and referrals/word of mouth does the rest of the work.

Below are a few deer I’ve recently mounted, hot off the press. After this weekend I will be finished mounting whitetail from the 2023 season. For the rest of December, through January, and possibly into February, I’ll be working on the rest of the mammals (and ducks) I took in during the 2023 season. That includes black bears, coyotes, squirrels, a bobcat, and a handful of ducks. Then, once finished with all of that, lll move to work on turkeys from last spring 🤘🏼

12/10/2024

Yesterday I had 7 deer dropped off including this gigantic main frame 8. Congratulations Dave Bastow on a beautiful Pa rifle buck!

Before I head back to the shop to cape the few that were frozen, I’d like to congratulate and thank all of the folks who support my business in one way or another. You’ve all helped make this taxidermy dream a reality. Not only am I able to run my own business, but it’s a booming one at that. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all! After yesterday, the total antlered critter tally reached 86. It’s gonna be a busy spring, summer, and fall bringing them all back to life!

12/08/2024

Folks, PLEASE, please, please.. If you can not bring me a critter within 1-2 days of harvesting it, get it in a chest freezer and then bring it to the shop when you’re able. Even in cool temperatures, I’ve seen capes go bad in 3-4 days when the temperature is above freezing.

When a cape is unfrozen, bacteria will start to do its thing and decomposition essentially begins. At that point, any mammal skin runs the risk of “hair slipping.” This is a taxidermy term for hair falling out. Slipping can be in small patches, like the cape in this photo. Or it can be at a much larger scale where the cape is no longer useable.

I make this post because I’ve caped a few deer in the past two weeks that were left out for too long and had a funky smell to them. Nothing is worse than getting notified by your tannery that a deer cape is losing all of its hair. So don’t let that be your cape!

12/07/2024

Snowy photo shoots 👌🏼 📸 🦌

12/04/2024

The whitetail train is trudging forward, even with all of this snow! Congratulations Justin and Darrin! Hard to beat a father, son double up (and this is Justin’s *dad’s* first whitetail ever!)🤘🏼🦌

❗️❗️In case anyone was wondering, I am absolutely still taking whitetail. Tell your friends 🤣❗️❗️

12/01/2024

Today has been a good day! We did some doe patrol, taking 2 doe from the property out back. Then I took in a drake mallard and 3 whitetails!

One of those bucks belongs to this young man. Another first buck we’ll be working on! Congratulations Nolan and Kyle! The Snows getting it done in the snow 🤘🏼🦌

11/29/2024

Along with producing quality taxidermy work, I feel like educating clients is an important part of my job. I want folks to know the difference between a great, mediocre, and poorly done mount.

The pics below are the eye and nose detail of a buck I had mounted for me in 2011 (by what was considered a quality taxidermist in northeast Ohio) and a buck I sent home 3 weeks ago.

I won’t blab on about all the difference, but to me, it’s pretty evident when compared side by side.

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21316 Highway 86
Cambridge Springs, PA
16403

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And with this one, all turkey heads are painted and we start mounting big birds this week!! 🤘🏼😍🦃🇺🇸