Cool Find when shed hunting...
 

What would be best to use to bleach the skull? Found this when out shed hunting with my nephews. I am gonna make a euro mount out of it and give it to them as gift.

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Bleach.;)

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easy enough....haha.

too bad this guy had to die so young...

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You want to use 40% peroxide no bleach.The peroxide can be purchased in beauty supply stores this is not the stuff from the pharmacy.Bleach will weeken the bone it is a oxidiser and the skull will turn yellow after a few years.After soaking in peroxide until white air dry and spray with someElmers glue and water It will look awesome.

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Spray with elmers glue and water? doesn't elmers glue turn a yellowish color after it dries?

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Its a shame thats for sure.

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KILZ spray paint is another option

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neat find

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Ditto! I picked up some at Sally's Beauty supply for a few bucks. I spread it over the skull (don't touch the antlers) and let it sit for a couple days. You can also put it out in the sun for a few days to help "bleach" it.;)

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After today I don't know when I will be able to put it out in the sun..haha. It snowed all day[:'(]

I was looking forward to summer getting here...but it got delayed another day..

Thanks for the tips guys.

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Thats really cool to bad that he had to die so young, he looks like he would have been really nice.

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I have done them 2 ways one using the salon grade peroxide 50% I have a friend that has her license so that one was easy. And then polyeurathaned it in a satin thatone looks alright. To keep the bones from drieing out you have to seal it. The one that looks the best I Sprayed with kilz it doesnt take out the lines and marks in the heads if you worried about that.I would recommend the kilz it looks the best IMHO.

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If it were me, I'd powerwash the whole thing - cleaning the dirt out of all the crevices... Then, I'd run some sandpaper over it, tape off the antlers and spraypaint it.

Once you get a couple coats of flat white on there, pull the tape off the antlers andwipe them with some dark wood stain to bring out the color.

This one is painted with $2 flat white paint from walmart.