Ace’s Oddities

The spine is a great place to start when it comes to mapping out and labeling a skeleton. It’s the backbone, after all!

Though there will be links to the other parts on each guide, this will list all of them in order in case you don’t wanna go searching!

1. Spine and Tail

2. Ribs

3. Forelimb

4. Hind-limb and Pelvis

5. Carpals and Metacarpals

6. Tarsals and Metatarsals

7. Phalanges

8. Miscellaneous Bones

thinking about whale falls

You can’t make meth out of baby formula. You can stretch some drugs by cutting it with baby formula but “Drug dealers sometimes use the powdered formula to dilute heroin and methamphetamine or to stretch the product when supplies run low. However, experts say that more often than not, formula is stolen because of its high market demand among consumers rather than drug dealers.”

me:

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Of course! There’s different ways to go about it, but this is my method:

First step is to test the leather. I either cut off a small piece of the face or drip a little water on it, and let it sink in for a moment. I tug at the wet spot to see if the leather rips easily. If so, the leather’s not good for rehydration. This is usually the case for older pelts, but newer ones will generally be fine. 

Once I know the leather is safe to rehydrate, I’ll submerge the face into a tub warm water. However, though the leather may be fine, there’s still a chance of the fur start slipping (falling out). A little fur loss is normal, but if it’s extensive best to stop reshaping and leave the face as is.

The time I allow faces to sit varies. I’ve had faces rehydrate fully in as little as 20 minutes and as long as 9 hours. Reason being, I like to make sure the nose and ears are soft, and they’ll take longer to rehydrate then the face of the animal. An hour or two should be sufficient enough, just make sure to check up on the project every so often to make sure the leather’s fine and the fur isn’t slipping.

Once it’s saturated, I wring it out it, scrape out any unwanted material, and set it up to dry. The best thing you can have to dry a face on is a taxidermy head form, but stuffing it with of towels and such works just as well! To keep the ears propped up, I’ll cut off triangular pieces of cardboard and pin them to the ears.

After about 2 days of drying the face is reshaped.