turkey fan mount
05-15-2005, 10:34 AM
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Typical Buck
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Cedar Park, TX
Posts: 957
RE: turkey fan mount
jepcho, here are some more pics. I probably spent about 3 or 4 hours on it. I cut 7 - 1 x 4's 30" long and cut 4 - 1 x 2's for the outer frame and nailed them together. I cut the meat from the back of the fan (there was just a little left). I left the tailbone on because I wanted to keep all of the front feathers on to make the circle and didn't know if removing it would mess it up or not. I put some borax on what meat/fat was left. I routed out the 1 x 4 where the tailbone it because it wouldn't lay as flat as I wanted. I positioned the fan where I wanted it and stapled the large fan feathers in place. I used a 1/2" or 3/8" staple so it would set in the wood and hold the feather in place but not smash it. Then I worked the front feathers into a circle. I put some hobby glue in the center. I found a wooden towel ring at Home Depot that I used as the center plaque. I cut most of the meat off the beard and wrapped it with wire I got at Walmart craft dept. I probably would have left more meat on it if I had it to do over so the wire wrap would not extend down into the beard as much. Then I drilled a hole in the towel ring where the ring was attached and held the beard in place and put a screw in it. I took the feet and wrapped the ends with black canvas fabric from Walmart and then wrapped them with green wire, once again from Walmart. Total cost was about $12 but I got the 1 x from scrap at work.
