Finished Panel Mounts
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Shoot2Kill
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ironwood</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I really like how you're covering them. Tell us what needs to be done to get them wrapped that nice and clean. Where are you getting your leather and braid? Great looking work forsure. </div></div>
Ironwood - wrapping the leather just takes time and practice, lots of tugging, and a few cuss words every now and then. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif I get my leather from a leather shop in Alaska where I used to live. I've yet to find a leather shop locally that has the quality of leather I like to use. Everything I've found locally is too thick and you can't get the tight look with it. I braid the braid myself from leather strips that I get at that same shop.
Ironwood - wrapping the leather just takes time and practice, lots of tugging, and a few cuss words every now and then. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif I get my leather from a leather shop in Alaska where I used to live. I've yet to find a leather shop locally that has the quality of leather I like to use. Everything I've found locally is too thick and you can't get the tight look with it. I braid the braid myself from leather strips that I get at that same shop.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I make mine the same way, however I use plaster paris under the wrapping around the skull plate and that stuff sucks to work with. What are you using to form the bubble. I know their is an easier way than the way I am doing it?
By the way, those are sweet. </div></div>
I used to use plaster of paris but got tired of the time waiting for it to dry, the sanding, etc. Now I use a mixture that a taxidermist I used to work for gave me the recipe for...it's gypson casting plaster, paper pulp, a little yellow dextrine glue, with the right amount of water mixed in to give it a nice paste mixture. I love this stuff...when mixed correctly you can form it all you want, it doesn't move, you can keep adding to it, and basically build the form any way you want. Let it sit overnight and it's rock hard the next day and ready to mount, unlike the plaster that could take days to dry so it could be sandable.
By the way, those are sweet. </div></div>
I used to use plaster of paris but got tired of the time waiting for it to dry, the sanding, etc. Now I use a mixture that a taxidermist I used to work for gave me the recipe for...it's gypson casting plaster, paper pulp, a little yellow dextrine glue, with the right amount of water mixed in to give it a nice paste mixture. I love this stuff...when mixed correctly you can form it all you want, it doesn't move, you can keep adding to it, and basically build the form any way you want. Let it sit overnight and it's rock hard the next day and ready to mount, unlike the plaster that could take days to dry so it could be sandable.