Just peel all the hide off and scrape the meat off as best as you can. If you can clean the skull up pretty good and boil it, it looks pretty good like that. Use a little bleach or peroxide in the water and it makes the skull nice and white. Boiling also makes it a little easier to scrape off any little bits of meat that' s left. Make sure you don' t get the antler bases in the boiling solution or they will turn white too!

If you don' t want the whole skull, cut straight back through the eyes on a line that would end up behind the ears. Then you can boil and clean up this piece of skull.

You can wrap some foam around the skull plate and then cover it with some nice felt or leather pulled tight and sewn together. Take your time doing this and get all the wrinkles out. It can be a pain in the a$$. Then mount it to a plaque. Just drill through the skullplate and insert your bolts before wraping and covering the skull plate. Use two bolts so the whole thing doesn' t spin around on the plaque.

I think you can also get kits that help you mount antlers onto a plaque. Check out Cabela' s or your local sporting goods store.

Good luck!