Having trouble getting the hair patterns to line up properly around the nose on your deer heads? How about shrinkage or wrinkled nose pads once dry? There is a simple answer for these issues. It is proper thinning and prep of the skin long before it is mounted. The less tissue that is present the…
Shaving Deer Capes By D. Price Shaving deer capes is a learned skill and much like any other skill it takes time and commitment to learn the proper techniques and “tricks of the trade” to shaving capes on the round knife. If you have a round knife (Fleshing Machine) and it is sitting in the…
Doing Taxidermy and Learning Taxidermy Two Totally Different Things By D. Price Just as stated, there is a big difference, if you want to do taxidermy get you a few tools together and a dead animal and all of a sudden you “DO” taxidermy. Anyone can “DO” it. It really is pretty simple and a…
I wanted to take a moment to share the final product from the cape that was shaved in the video. Yes this is the actual cape that you see lying on the table in the still photos as well as the shaving part of “Mastering the Fleshing Machine A-Z PLUS”. This early season, North Carolina…
Recording “Mastering the Fleshing Machine A-Z PLUS” I recently had the opportunity to fly out to the upper Midwest and work with the Stehling brothers, Aaron and Austin of Jefferson, Wisconsin. These guys have a top notch outfit and are awesome to work with, they are the founders of Taxidermy Insider®, an online instructional site…