Skinning nose and toes?
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River Runner
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Welcome to the board Wooly.
You dont want to discard anything on the face, but you dont have to have it purfect for a wall hanging either.
Thin the face down as much as possible while fleshing, being careful not to cut through the whisker folics, youll be fine. When skinning you'll want to cut as close to the skull as possible. Sometimes its easier to start the face by going inside the mouth and cutting along each gumb line, top and bottom jaws.
The nose, again cut as close to the skull as possible. You'll feel the skull with your knife and if you tip your knife away from the skull slightly you'll follow that gradual slope towards the front lip that the skull makes.
Fleshing you just cut as much cartiladge out as you can while attempting to turn the nose inside out. Taxidermy nose handling is a bit different.
Paws if left on you'll want to skin down to the last knuckle on each digit.
I dont care to have the paws on wall hides, I think they take away from the overall appearance but that's just opinion.
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You dont want to discard anything on the face, but you dont have to have it purfect for a wall hanging either.
Thin the face down as much as possible while fleshing, being careful not to cut through the whisker folics, youll be fine. When skinning you'll want to cut as close to the skull as possible. Sometimes its easier to start the face by going inside the mouth and cutting along each gumb line, top and bottom jaws.
The nose, again cut as close to the skull as possible. You'll feel the skull with your knife and if you tip your knife away from the skull slightly you'll follow that gradual slope towards the front lip that the skull makes.
Fleshing you just cut as much cartiladge out as you can while attempting to turn the nose inside out. Taxidermy nose handling is a bit different.
Paws if left on you'll want to skin down to the last knuckle on each digit.
I dont care to have the paws on wall hides, I think they take away from the overall appearance but that's just opinion.
Check out our search feature for discussion or tips on this and you'll find some interesting reads.
Let us know if you need help, we got plenty of er /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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Rusty Holt
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Nice post, River Runner....even a goof like me could figure it out if I didn't already know how. Have you or anybody else noticed that the search function has been limited in its results lately? If I search my own posts by member number, it doesn't give me near the results that it should, and I'm not talking about the old posts, either. Just wondering.
Hope all is well up there and you're staying warm!
Take it easy!
Rusty
Hope all is well up there and you're staying warm!
Take it easy!
Rusty
River Runner
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You don't hope Im staying warm up here. You and Watson both are laughing at us up here in our cover-alls /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Search issues..we go in and update "member post histories periodically (did I spell that right) to keep it up to date. But it shuts the board down for about 20 minutes when we do so.
I did it maybe a couple of months ago, but forgot to give the members warning, and almost started a feeding frenzy when no one could log on. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Search issues..we go in and update "member post histories periodically (did I spell that right) to keep it up to date. But it shuts the board down for about 20 minutes when we do so.
I did it maybe a couple of months ago, but forgot to give the members warning, and almost started a feeding frenzy when no one could log on. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif