My first turkey fan
 

This is the fan,beard and spurs off of my first turkey. I did my best
at getting it mounted-hopefully next one will turn out better.

Looks really good to me - congrats. Did you put Borax on the fleshy parts?

I screwed the center meat part of the fan to a 1x6x1/2 board that was approx. 2 foot long and then I put a screw approx. 10 inches out from the screw that in the meat part of the fan and then I just
spread the fan open and hooked the last feather over the screws that were 10 inches out-sorta hard to explain-you would have three
screws in a staight line 10 inches apart-the center holds the fan to the board and the outside two you spread the fan out and hook the last tail feather on each side over them and then I dad a 1x1x1/2 board nailed acroos the top of the fan to hold it in place.
I had it down my basement for 8 months-just gotta around to getting it mounted.
And no, I did not use Borax-I did use salt-probably use borax next time. Just one other hint-do your best to trim the meat where the tail comes together-not easy to do after it gets dried-do not ask how I know.

Impressive...

Excellent I like the plaque where did you get that or did you make it?

The plaque and the hardware that comes with it was purchased from Cabelas-I think that it was in the $45 dollar range.

Nice job!!!

Very nice!

Very good job! Borax makes the job easier though.

looks really nice I shot my first turkey last year put it in a shop trying to let the meat rot off but the rats got a hold of it now all i got is afew feather's

Looks pretty good. I've done several of them now and my first one didn't look that good.