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Northeast Custom Taxidermy

Award winning small batch taxidermy by Brian Donaghy. 1 year or less turnaround. 20 years experience.

Award winning small batch taxidermy with a guaranteed 1 year or less turnaround.

11/14/2024

FREE Antler Mount…

If you shoot a mature buck the rest of the season, but you’re not interested in getting a shoulder mount done, I will be offering free antler plaque mounts to four hunters.

I’m in need of four mature bucks, 3.5 years old or older, for molding and casting custom open mouth taxidermy parts. The buck needs to be freshly harvested.

Cut the head off the buck, preferably the day you harvest it, and bring it by asap. If the tongue is hanging out, neatly tuck it back in. The front teeth need to be in good shape and not broken from dragging.

If you can’t get the head to me asap, you can place it in the freezer and get it to me within a few days.

11/12/2024

Just a reminder that you can tag your fur here. Tagged some beautiful marten, beavers, and a fisher yesterday.

11/12/2024

Some beautiful deer have been dropped off the last couple of days. I don’t have pics for a fair number of them, but here are a few.

There is a good chance my books will be closed to new customers and only open to previous clients by the end of this week. If you got a deer the past few days and would like me to mount it, drop it off asap.

Thank you everyone for trusting me with your deer.

11/09/2024

Been a busy week! Here are a few of the beautiful deer that have come in so far. Congratulations to everyone and good luck to all the other hunters out there!

10/29/2024

My brother Mark found himself a beautiful WY elk after a lot of hard hunting the last couple of weeks. His first year as a resident of WY is not going to waste.

10/29/2024

A nice zone 8 bull from Lake Parlin Lodge & Cabins with detachable antlers finished up last week.

TM Creations full sneak altered to straight

10/26/2024

Moose that went home last week. Full sneaks look great high up on the wall!

10/25/2024

Good luck youth hunters! It’s nice to see a Maine general store excited about youth day! Troy General Store

10/20/2024

Something a little different than the norm on the fleshing table this Sunday morning!

10/17/2024

Been too busy to get photos during the right time of day with my better camera to avoid the harsh sun shadows… so these pictures from my phone will have to do. Sent this beautiful zone 4 bull home today. Really great bull Keegan. Congratulations!!

TM Creations full sneak, altered to left turn.

10/11/2024

This year and going forward, all my moose mounts will have my custom molded nose and earliners. It’s taken me a little longer than hoped to get moose mounted since I had to make these molds, but I’m down to my last couple of moose. These parts are a big improvement over what I’ve used in the past.

10/10/2024

Custom fitting a moose to the form. Just like a lot of the deer I mount, a lot of the moose require custom alterations to get the best outcome. I could leave this step out, probably get it to mount up with a few issues, and make more money… but if you’re going to do something, I’ve always believed in doing it right.

The nice thing about leaving some of the eye orbit on skull plate when you cut a rack off is, you can see exactly how wide the form needs to be. Changing the width of the form to your skull plate allows your skin to line up better when you place it over the form, which leads to less shrinkage and less finish work needed… all leading to a better and more accurate mount in the end. Doing this takes a little more time, but well worth it in the end.

There are basically three ways to do this. Each has it’s own pluses and minuses:
-You can drill out the eye on the form and reshape the eye orbit. This works well for very minor adjustments.
-You can cut out a wedge on the head of the form and then narrow up the wedge, like in this post.
-You can cut the head off the form and narrow up the whole head.

I opted for the wedge method on this one because the form fit well and the form was turned/posed exactly as the customer wanted, so I was really hoping to avoid cutting the head off and reattaching it and then placing a rod down through the head and neck to secure it. Often times since I have to custom alter the turn on moose and I have the head cut off anyways, I would choose to narrow the whole head. This time, the wedge method worked good.

10/03/2024

Emery harvested this beautiful bull last Fall while hunting with Epic Adventures guided by Rich Pschirrer. At the young age of 78, Emery made it look easy! This year, his son John was lucky enough to draw a tag for the October bull hunt. Emery and John will make the trek North again to hunt with Epic Adventures, wish them luck!

Detachable antlers sure made it easy to transport. I guess a moose fits in the back seat of an F-150 supercab!

TM Creations semi-sneak

10/02/2024

A pretty bull guided by Epic Adventures last season for a hunter from New Jersey. Congratulations Brian on drawing a Maine moose permit and your successful hunt.

TM Creations Semi-Sneak altered to left turn

09/30/2024

Sometimes I’m absolutely amazed… at first I was amazed that this moose came in with the neck tubed… not easy to do!! It was the first moose I’ve ever recieved tubed. I couldn’t believe it… I was excited, because I stitch all my long cut moose capes into a tubed cape before I mount them, so this “was” going to be a lot less stitching in the end. So I was super appreciative that this moose was tubed… until I realized the butcher made the cut by the legs incorrectly and cut through the brisket!!🙄🙄🙄😡

All the extra work to tube the neck all the way to the back of the skull believe it or not, only to eff up the brisket…. Just amazed!

Please…. Please do NOT cut through the brisket. It is on the finished mount and there is no reason to cut there…. Ever, if you are mounting the animal.

09/30/2024

Thank you for a great week and trusting me with your Maine moose! Some great bulls got dropped off, here are some of them!

09/29/2024

I had a customer that needed two capes last Fall for two Southern Maine bucks. He had gotten these bucks years back, but never mounted them. He decided now was the time to mount them!

I can get capes each Fall if you let me know and need an old mount remounted or would like to mount a set of antlers you never had mounted.

This pair came out great!
McKenzie 64U & 64D.

09/26/2024

The initial Y cut you’ll want to make on a moose in the field if you skin and quarter in the field.

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A beautiful soft tanned whitetail piebald doe skin recently sent home! If you have skins or pelts you would like soft tanned for your home or cabin decor, I use the best garment tannery in the USA for our soft tanning. They do an incredible job and have never let us down in the hundreds of pelts I have sent. After tanning I also block and resize your pelt or skin to get most of it’s original size back that is shrunk during tanning. It will also take most of the wrinkles out of the pelt. This is a vital step in making a good wall hanging garment that is often left out by most taxidermists tanning wallhanger pelts. Deer Skin $450 Bear $450 w/o head and feet $600 w/ head and feet Coyote/ Fox $300 Bobcat $350 #northeastcustomtaxidermy #tanning #garmenttanning

Over the years I often get questions about fleshing. For most of my fleshing I use an ulu knife. I’ve found it to be a lot quicker and easier than using a two handed knife for most critters. I still use a two handed knife on raccoon and black bear because they are very fatty and push easily. There is a learning curve to an ulu. Hopefully this helps some folks out and gets you to learn some new techniques. I used to dread fleshing, now I enjoy it. Also, if anybody needs fur tagged in the Central Maine area, we now tag fur. If you had fur left over from last Fall that you haven’t shipped to auction yet or sold locally, we are buying some limited fur… mainly looking for marten, fisher, otter, and some canines at this point.