Stag skull mount

Hi guys, yeah got a red stag during the roar and half arsed cleaned it up, even that was a mission.skin, boil, water blast, maggots ect. I still have a small amount of flesh left on the skull which has hardened with time. I have now decided to make a mount for my room and want to clean it up.Is it to late to reboil then peroxide? Will the flesh come off without destroying the bone? Also what are your best methods of cleaning to hang on the wall? Photos would be good, come on I know you want to show off your hard work.

Don't know about the re-boiling, but you could try soaking the skull for a day or two, might rehydrate the flesh and make it easier to clean off.

As for whitening, with mine i got a 1L bottle of 50% peroxide off trademe for $20 and poured that into a container with water till is covered the skull and let it bubble away, think it was 12-14L of water in there
When it stopped i hung it up in the sun for a few days and it slowly whitened up, it didn't come out gleaming but was a vast improvement on before.
you could always use more or higher % peroxide or even simply tape up the antlers and spray it with flat white spray paint.

Hope this helps

Good advise, soak it for a week or more and then re-boil in an old 25L paint tin or similar.


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cheers boys

Looks good

Looks mean mate.
I'll have to hurry up and get pics of my stag up, just need to finish the woodwork and bolt it all together.
Looking forward to the impending "discussion" with the missus about where i can put it :)

Looking forward to the impending "discussion" with the missus about where i can put it :)[/QUOTE]

Yea ive been there! I got told... " i dont care where it goes so long as it is not in the house"
So i put it above the front door! now suddenly she wants it in the spare room....


Looks good gut shot what was the sucessfull method?

Hahaha everyone has to go through 'the discussion'
luckly the missus is lax about this kind of stuff, she grew up on a farm with her dad and bro mad about shooting so she's used to seeing dead stuff on walls
But we've agreed that i can have a mancave when we buy a house and they can 'all' go in there.

Apparenlty the thing to do is demand that you want it in the bedroom and as the argument heats up she'll storm off and say
"You can put it in the louge but it ain't going in the bedroom!" :D

I am the missus so mine's going in my room! :D

I've got mine still in a bucket out in the wash house, should probably give it a second go cleaning it up tomorrow. What was the success in the end mate? It looks bloody awesome.

[QUOTE=Dougie;48804]I am the missus so mine's going in my room! :D

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So, is this a case of 'mine's bigger than yours'?

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http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...-one/thumb.jpg

My daughter is 15 now so that is from a while back.... and the other one was my first stag head...

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/IMG_1512.jpg

I just cut the scull back and blacked the white section, wife didn't like the look of the scull inside and to be honest I prefer it like they are, I dont like the sheild look peice of wood prefer to cut a bit of log :)

Did you just cut the skull with a hack saw?

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Did you just cut the skull with a hack saw?

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fine tooth wood saw :)

Nice cobwebs leathel, very "arty!"

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Nice cobwebs leathel, very "arty!"

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Yeah I saw those I wondered if I should take another pic as that one is from a few years back..... probably still there though :P

yea just soaked it and sat there with a knife taking all the remaining flesh off. brought a bottle of peroxide from the chemist $6 and brushed it on in the sun. waited for it to dry then applied another 10 or so coats. it eventually whitened up. got it sussed for a my 12 point bush stag this roar:thumbsup:

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yea just soaked it and sat there with a knife taking all the remaining flesh off. brought a bottle of peroxide from the chemist $6 and brushed it on in the sun. waited for it to dry then applied another 10 or so coats. it eventually whitened up. got it sussed for a my 12 point bush stag this roar:thumbsup:

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Boil the head with in a day or two water blast it and you dont get the fat leach inthe bone, turning the skull off white no need to bleach .. thats if your wanting to euro mount it ..

Euro mount Samba ,used 18mm ply an mounted it my self in a couple of hours ..

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Boil the head with in a day or two water blast it and you dont get the fat leach inthe bone, turning the skull off white no need to bleach .. thats if your wanting to euro mount it ..

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I boiled mine up within a day, took some off but there was still a lot of brains and ich inside it. I put it in the washouse for another day and everything turned to leather as 'another day' turned out to be like four weeks....woops. It's still in a bucket soaking atm. I wish I had a waterblaster!!!

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I boiled mine up within a day, took some off but there was still a lot of brains and ich inside it. I put it in the washouse for another day and everything turned to leather as 'another day' turned out to be like four weeks....woops. It's still in a bucket soaking atm. I wish I had a waterblaster!!!

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Youv only got like 4 inches square of the top skull plate! should be a piece of piss to clean. give it another quick boil and peal of any membrain or meat bit of bleach and bobs your auntie.

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Youv only got like 4 inches square of the top skull plate! should be a piece of piss to clean. give it another quick boil and peal of any membrain or meat bit of bleach and bobs your auntie.

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Yeah but I'm a noob remember :P it's kinda knarley/cut on an angle, I might do the wood saw trick and just mount in on a nice slab of tree meat. I'll have a new house in a couple of weekends, I'll need it sorted by then :)

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bobs your auntie.

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That bugger always tried to tell me he was my uncle. Always knew he was a queer prick.