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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 19, 2023 8:58:39 GMT -5
I change the water a few times while cooking them clean and add a little bleach or Dawn to the water on last couple rounds. They turn out plenty white enough to suit me. I use a little dawn and borax. Too much will whiten the antlers while cooking. I never use bleach. It's not good for the bone. I can get super white skulls without degreasing. The problem is over time the grease in the bone leaches out to the surface and they start getting yellow spots. I'm trying to get my skulls to where they stay white forever.
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Post by steiny on Mar 20, 2023 15:41:13 GMT -5
I never use bleach. It's not good for the bone. Have been told this. Mine are all still intact hanging on the walls. Maybe they'll only last 150 years instead of 250?
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Mar 20, 2023 15:47:14 GMT -5
Hang from dock with rope. Just put skull under water. Not antlers. Will turn green but can be scrubbed off. Hide and all will fall off after awhile. Blow off remaining stuff with garden hose.
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Post by bill9068 on Mar 20, 2023 17:00:52 GMT -5
I’ve done over 25 and just use an old turkey fryer with water. I get the water to a rolling boil and then turn it down to below boiling. Takes 3-4 hours then power wash skull. Comes out clean. I use salon 40 for whitening skull and paint it on and leave it for 2-3 day’s touching up areas daily. No grease spots even after 20 years on some of them.
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Post by onebentarrow on Mar 20, 2023 19:57:24 GMT -5
Check out whitebone creation on you tube. He shows the whole process and does it for a liveing
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Post by scrub-buster on Mar 21, 2023 5:59:56 GMT -5
I've been simmering skulls in a turkey fryer and pressure washing them for around 12 years now. I have done a bunch for family, friends, and a few as paying jobs. I can get very good results. I'm trying to get museum quality skulls. I have been amazed at how much grease and fat have come out of a skull that I simmered and cleaned this past season. Next year I will stop cooking them and will switch to maceration to clean them.
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Post by budd on Mar 22, 2023 8:33:43 GMT -5
I've been simmering skulls in a turkey fryer and pressure washing them for around 12 years now. I have done a bunch for family, friends, and a few as paying jobs. I can get very good results. I'm trying to get museum quality skulls. I have been amazed at how much grease and fat have come out of a skull that I simmered and cleaned this past season. Next year I will stop cooking them and will switch to maceration to clean them. This year I hit my timing perfect for simmering skulls, flirting with simmering to long and loosing all that neat cartilage in the sinus cavity. I dont remove the eyes nor most of the meat before simmering. I use a big squeeze of dawn dish soap and salsoda in the water. I simmer until everything falls out of the sinus cavity with a easy shake, everything else by that time should have fallen off, again to long and nasal cartilage falls apart and bone becomes spongy and soft. I pop all the ear bones out with a small screwdriver, debrain and remove eyes with a long curved pair of forceps, back into a clean batch of water with a LOT of dawn dish soap to remove a lot of the grease. Ive gotten it down good enough I can have two skulls ready for whitening in about 4 hours. Do you loose the nasal cartilage with pressure washer? or ever blow nose bones off? Another tip: use a pipe cleaner to clean out the two tear duct holes, you will be surprised at what you push out. I also use a long but small diameter bottle brush to clean out the nasal cavity of dried blood but going in from the bottom side of skull.
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Post by budd on Mar 22, 2023 8:44:27 GMT -5
Lost the nasal cartilage in this bear, I like to save it in my deer Europeans.
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Post by bill9068 on Mar 22, 2023 9:39:34 GMT -5
I've been simmering skulls in a turkey fryer and pressure washing them for around 12 years now. I have done a bunch for family, friends, and a few as paying jobs. I can get very good results. I'm trying to get museum quality skulls. I have been amazed at how much grease and fat have come out of a skull that I simmered and cleaned this past season. Next year I will stop cooking them and will switch to maceration to clean them. This year I hit my timing perfect for simmering skulls, flirting with simmering to long and loosing all that neat cartilage in the sinus cavity. I dont remove the eyes nor most of the meat before simmering. I use a big squeeze of dawn dish soap and salsoda in the water. I simmer until everything falls out of the sinus cavity with a easy shake, everything else by that time should have fallen off, again to long and nasal cartilage falls apart and bone becomes spongy and soft. I pop all the ear bones out with a small screwdriver, debrain and remove eyes with a long curved pair of forceps, back into a clean batch of water with a LOT of dawn dish soap to remove a lot of the grease. Ive gotten it down good enough I can have two skulls ready for whitening in about 4 hours. Do you loose the nasal cartilage with pressure washer? or ever blow nose bones off? Another tip: use a pipe cleaner to clean out the two tear duct holes, you will be surprised at what you push out. I also use a long but small diameter bottle brush to clean out the nasal cavity of dried blood but going in from the bottom side of skull. I cut the heads off and put them right in the boiling water. The ears and hide will slip off as well as the nasal cavity matter. The power washer takes out the brains and meat in the hard to reach places. That’s just the way I do it and it works for me. I have broken a couple of nose ends off but it was my fault for handling them, then I just glued them back on.
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