I made an official taxidermy blog! For those of you who don’t want to deal with my personal posts, fandom bullshit or other nonsense please go HERE: AmplectiMortem
Don’t worry, I’ll still be posting my taxidermy stuff up here, I’ll just post it there first and then reblog it here. This is just mostly to give to my customers if they ask for it, on top of people who may not be interested in anything but taxidermy-related things.
I’m fund-raising so I can renovate one of the rooms of our house to be my taxidermy studio. I’d do it myself but unfortunately, with how limited my funds are, it would probably take years to get going properly and with our financial position and me only pulling $400 a month, which goes to bills and things to sell so I can keep paying the bills and keep selling, it’s going to be either difficult or downright impossible to actually properly start up my taxidermy business past what I’ve already sunk into it. I’d get a regular job to help me out, but because of my Fibro and my partner’s anxiety disorder, we’re both unable to work actual jobs and this is about as good as it gets for us. I hate to ask you for help but I’ve seen you guys do amazing things and if you could help both myself and my partner have a secure source of income, or even just signal-boost this post I’d be SO grateful for approximately ever.
The link below leads to where you can donate, read the full backstory on why I started in on taxidermy to begin with and what I want to do with it! If you’d rather get some bang for your buck instead of just donating, I also have an Etsy where I sell things like skulls, pelts, bones, fur masks and headdresses and more. I also take commissions for practically anything relating to animals and animal parts so long as it’s legal in your state.
My initial goal is $5,000 so I can get it to a good start. Any little bit helps and I thank you for whatever you do to help, even if it’s just a like or a reblog.
suckerbmx asked: What do you use to shape the ears on your mounts?
I usually soak them and by the time they’re done soaking the ears are approximately in the shape I want them. After that, I’ll just pin them to a piece of cardboard to ensure they hold the shape I want. Sometimes I’ll use earliners to help them better keep their shape but more often than not it just requires carding and pinning. On actual taxidermy mounts, however, I’d either use earliners or I’d use bondo - while I’m a bit iffy on using Bondo because of the fiberglass, I’ve also heard that you can also just use the paste straight up without the fiberglass involved. I’ve been thinking about incorporating that into my headdresses for the ones that have had properly prepped ears to prevent the skin from drumming. Hope this helps!
AAAAHHHHH. I have SO MUCH STUFF COMING IN THIS WEEK. I found many, many things to work on; I have a grey fox coming in that I may soft mount or leave as a rug, depending - I also have a full coyote skin that I’ve got coming in that I’ll be doing a headdress on or perhaps even a full taxidermy headdress depending on if I get anybody who’d like it as one ( and if it’s prepped for mounting, ofc ). I’ve ALSO-ALSO got a wolverine face coming in that I’ll be turning into a mask/pauldron, and on top of that someone was wonderful enough to buy enough off of me to permit me to buy a black bear change-out head, a red fox one, a bobcat one and a white-tail deer one so I can basically work with almost all commonly-found skins to turn into headdresses at request or just for fun. We’ve also got antlers coming in, which means I get to start working on that arctic fox headdress, though I’m not fully sure how to attach the antlers without making them grind into the head unpleasantly.
Anyway, it’s to be a busy week! I also got my taxidermy license which means I CAN SELL MY WORK.
