Euro Mount
01-25-2016, 05:48 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
Charge him $200-$400 for a euro mount? A professional taxidermist or skull business charge around $150-$200 for a deer head, and that probably includes a plaque on the upper end price.
Boiling and bleaching cost is not that much. A nice hardwood plaque is not alot of $ either if you go to the right sources.
If I was doing it for my "buddy" I'd do it for free (or a case of beer, or whatever). He'll do you a favor someday. I've done several for friends over the years. If they want it on a nice plaque, I tell them to order one.
Boiling and bleaching cost is not that much. A nice hardwood plaque is not alot of $ either if you go to the right sources.
If I was doing it for my "buddy" I'd do it for free (or a case of beer, or whatever). He'll do you a favor someday. I've done several for friends over the years. If they want it on a nice plaque, I tell them to order one.
01-25-2016, 05:56 AM
#4
Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma
Posts: 1,350
Most around here go for 125$. For a buddy I'd charge 75$. Some places include the plaque but most will charge extra for that. If ya find someone paying 400$ send them my way. A shoulder mount cost 400$ here.
01-25-2016, 06:43 AM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
I think I would have settled the price before I even agreed to do them for him. It really depends on whether you are doing it to make money or if you have the time to spend and money is not really the motive to do it. I just did a mule deer and an antelope and it's not so much the cost of the materials, but more the time it takes if you do them right. He'd have to be a very good buddy before I'd do them from the boiling through to completion for less than $75 each and then add in a nice plaque for each of them like the hardwood oak ones I used for both of mine and you have another $75.
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01-25-2016, 01:50 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central VT/Big Horn WY
Posts: 1,543
I have had a few done here in Vermont. They are done with dermestid beetles. The skull is then degreased and bleached with peroxide. I am charged $130, no plaque.
Last edited by Rob in VT; 01-25-2016 at 01:53 PM.