Cleaning skulls
#7103583
12/24/20 11:45 AM
12/24/20 11:45 AM
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Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 3,446 Houghton Lake, MI
strike2x
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Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 3,446
Houghton Lake, MI
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Does anyone have any methods other than using beetles? I am looking for a way to clean skulls like boiling,, solvents or the likes. Any help would be appreciated.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: strike2x]
#7103604
12/24/20 12:01 PM
12/24/20 12:01 PM
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Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,215 W NY
Turtledale
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W NY
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Basic recipe for me is. Boil skull, pick and scrub off meat sometimes I use the air compressor. Degrease with Dawn dish soap. And whiten with peroxide. These three basic steps are all done a little different by people. I buy cheap peroxide at the dollar store and submerge it until I like the way it looks then wash well and dry. Glueing of teeth and jaws etc... sometimes has to be done.
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: strike2x]
#7103649
12/24/20 12:30 PM
12/24/20 12:30 PM
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Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 3,446 Houghton Lake, MI
strike2x
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Houghton Lake, MI
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Thanks all, I am going to try a couple to see if I can make something work.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Cleaning skulls
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#7103668
12/24/20 12:41 PM
12/24/20 12:41 PM
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Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 5,772 central Illinois
yoteguts
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central Illinois
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Google whitebone creations on youtube. The guy has a ton of step by step videos on all kinds of critters. I do mine the same way. This guy has it going on. I’ve done everything from porkypines to mature bucks. Works awesome. Only issues I’ve had are the tiny teeth in small skulls. I’m working on that.
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: strike2x]
#7103740
12/24/20 01:27 PM
12/24/20 01:27 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 160 Interior Alaska
GUK
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Posts: 160
Interior Alaska
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Put skulls in shrimp pots, let sea lice clean them. Zero effort , finish with glue/sealer after they dry a couple of weeks. Bonus is having to eat fresh shrimp with this method.
GUK.....it's the sound they make when they hit the end of the cable
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: strike2x]
#7103763
12/24/20 01:35 PM
12/24/20 01:35 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 3,292 Ontario, Canada
slydogx
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If you have time and patience...just cover with water in a bucket, throw in a handful of garden dirt, cover and leave it for 4 weeks. Spray off excess meat with a garden hose spray nozzle. Refill the bucket with clean water and dawn soap and let sit for 3 days and then dump and fill with high test peroxide and soak overnight. Put it in the sun and voila, nice clean and white No beetles, no heat, no solvents I have done deer, beaver skulls and coon peckers this way with good success
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: slydogx]
#7103778
12/24/20 01:42 PM
12/24/20 01:42 PM
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Joined: Jan 2020
Posts: 4,925 Aliceville, Kansas 43
Yukon John
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If you have time and patience...just cover with water in a bucket, throw in a handful of garden dirt, cover and leave it for 4 weeks. Spray off excess meat with a garden hose spray nozzle. Refill the bucket with clean water and dawn soap and let sit for 3 days and then dump and fill with high test peroxide and soak overnight. Put it in the sun and voila, nice clean and white No beetles, no heat, no solvents I have done deer, beaver skulls and coon peckers this way with good success What does the dirt do?
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Re: Cleaning skulls
[Re: strike2x]
#7104224
12/24/20 06:45 PM
12/24/20 06:45 PM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 181 Ireland
Eddie43
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Posts: 181
Ireland
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I do mine with that youtube guys method. Works great!
Last edited by Eddie43; 12/24/20 06:56 PM.
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