Life is a series of repairs
Drying and softening bear hides after tanning. Hides to be made into rugs, life-size, and half body mounts.
Crappie painting video
Painting a crappie (spot pattern)
Removing deer brains using a simple mind blowing technique.
Homesteaders Christmas 🎄
Lake trout skin after degreasing. I was able to restore most of the faded, blotchy areas back to normal. This will improve how the paint is applied for greater detail.
After 6 days soaking at 100 degrees, it is time for some power washing. Then 15 days of degreasing in heated water, soap, and ammonia with multiple water changes. Then the whitening process begins with a soak in heated peroxide. Teeth and bone seams are then glued and a hanger attached.
No boiling involved.
Believe me $150 is not too much for the effort, equipment and techniques involved, not to mention the stress and smell 😆
Fishing the shallow flats near Boca Grande, Florida.
Even the shrew is unhappy with the snow conditions
Pike and walleye season ends March 15th
Finished this 4 year old male mountain lion today. Painted the cats face and mouth, repaired alterations made to the rock and tree limb and then painted them to blend in.
Fleshing foxes and coyotes on a rotory fleshing machine. Fox have extremely thin skins, kind of like removing one layer of a two ply paper towel. I keep reminding myself to go light and easy! Every type of skin has a different feel and varies also with the time of year, a deer during September will flesh entirely different from a deer in November. Fleshing takes a great deal of concentration and can take years to master. It is extremely important on how a skin is handled before fleshing, air dried hard spots, poor skinning, dried blood clots, freezer burn, all contribute to giving me a bad day.
So far so good 😃 Sometimes I wonder what I have gotten myself into 🤣
Video of sturgeon after cleaning off mud and slim you can see the details of the skin. The skin has 3 rows of Spikes the length of the back and sides and rougher than 60 grit sandpaper when you run your hand head to tail it feels smooth but you cannot go the other way even the fins feel like sandpaper.
