Can somebody explain how this is done?

Thanks,

Its hard to explain, if you look at an animals mouth, you have the inner part inside the mouth and the outer, the hair, basicly what you are doing its skinning between the inner and out of the mouth, and you do it all the way to where the hair meets the skin part of the lips, that way you can get it dried so the hair doesn't slip, and it gives the taxidermist the lips to be able to tuck for mounts.

Does this help at all?

Not quite getting the pic........but I'll work on it.

Thanks,

I will be doing a bobcat and I will try to get some pictures for you, I'm going to skin it as if it was going to be mounted, going to split the nose and split the lips and everything.

Basicly the inner and outter lip is stuck together, and when you split them you are just going between the inner and outter to get them apart so that you can get the roots of the hair dried.

Sounds like "exacto" work?

Yep it is, I use a scalpel to do it.

Gotcha......

couldnt you just flesh the lips??

just smart off to your wife, works for me every time

Here ye go.

http://www.helpinghandhangers.com/videos.php#fleshing1

http://www.helpinghandhangers.com/videos.php#fleshing4


Rickey

ive been wondering about that do you need to do that on putting ur oen fur up wanted to start but didnot know how far u typicaly go with this i know what your are talking about for spliting the nose and lips but to just soft tan hides is that step needed

amen brother

Going this extra work can some times pay great dividends on a oddball pelt or a pelt that may be something more to a taxidermist.

If one learns how to do this kind of extra work, when they harvest a special catch they can certainly make more dollars on it than the fur market.

Any fur that is brought to me on the carcass unless a real mess I always break them down with all paws on and split the lips and ears and nose, you never know when a sell will come for them.

One extra step one can do is measure the animal as well and keep them with the pelt.

It is mostly done with pelts which will be mounted for taxidermy. I do it to all my otter and mink, would do it if I caught fisher, skunk, or marten as well. So your answer is no.