Haha, no i don't work at a slaughterhouse, i just have a connection with someone who does, this means i have a personal deliveryman of ram skulls, pretty neat.
That's fucking bad ass, I cut meat in a grocery store for a living but we never get any heads haha! Looks like a hell of a hobby! do you get any meat worth eating off the head?
Well the cheeks are real nice if you slowcook them in loads of redwine and garlic but to use the cheeks you nees to skin them right away, otherwise the meat takes on the flawor of the wool, i get them a couple of days after they have been slaughtered, so i never keep any meat unfortunately.
Haha! It is actually!
I don't know yet, i get another batch today so i guess i can't really keep them all, i have tons of bigger horse skulls that take up alot of room aswell..
Well, TheGirlWhoWasDeath could create "ARoomThatIsDeath" haha.
I collect skulls and bones myself, my collection grows as I find them.
My prize so far is a vertebrae from a Blue Whale that I found on the beach,
I use it as a seat/table/altar of sacrifice etc. haha.
maybe I will post some pics of it here.
not 100% sure of it being from a Big Blue. This is true.
ive seen many whale bones in my life, my town stopped commercial whaling in around 1976.
I know some guys who used to work there, but I have yet to ask their opinion.
we have now a "whaling museum" in the old processing factory.
it has reconstructed skeletons of some species, southern wrights, humpbacks an some others.
none are this big.
p.s I just posted a pic in the actionshots.
p.s.s and I didn't remove it from a fleshy carcass, I found it sun bleached, broken and long buried.
just lucky it was strong winds for a week or so which uncovered part of it from its sandy tomb.
Well this was a test to see if i could boil the meat of faster because the method i prefer takes soo god damn long, i'll stick to the maceration, takes longer but the skulls are perfect after that.
Well i was very excited about the whole thing when i first started doing this, now it's not that big of a deal, only when i get some odd specimens on my table i guess, getting a kangaroo in a couple of weeks and that's going to be some strange fun for me as a collector, i'm not trying to get reactions or "trve kvlt" by this post, i was just a newbie and as i said, quite excited. I never boil anything anymore, rookie mistake.
Actually, boiling isn't a bad idea provided you're properly set up for it and use the right chemicals. Whitebone Creations Hunting method is very through and simple, and he uses a 50% water and 50% Hydrogen Proxide 40%-Concentrate for loosening up the meat and sinew underneath. He even show's ya how to take apart the jaw with ease, and how to prepare birds.
Hey sista, do you watch Whitebone Creations Hunting on YT? He's hella tight, 'makes some awesome vids, 'gives tips, he's quite methodical and chill and treats the animal/skull with respect while he goes through the whole process. Also, he even shows you how to deal with creatures with horns, that in it's self is an entirely different process and usually involves removing the outer-layer horn to trim off the living tissue underneath; and then gluing the outer layer horn back on once the tissues have been cooked off.
Whitebone creation is a textbook example of how not to do proper cleaning of bones, pressure washing, boiling, it's just not the proper way. Maceration or beetles, degreasing(i degrease in pure ammonia) and then whitening in peroxide, boiling and the use of a pressure washer totaly destroys the nasal turbinates and other small, fragile bones. Also skipping the vital degreasing will, in time, cause you to have a fragile, flaky skull with grease seeping out, not the way you want it.
I rot my horn sheaths off, cut away as much meat and tissue that i can(eyes, brain etc), important to do so around the base of the horn, pop it in a plastic bag and then just wait until the horn sheaths slip off. :)
I would never do as whitebone creation, now, but each to his own. :)
@ All of the above: Ohhhh ok =o. Yea, I had seen him explain about the issues of pressure washing and losing the fragile bits and pieces. I know that he also degreases the bones (aside from bleaching) as several species are very greasy (bear, fox [if I recall correctly.])
Yea, I had seen him do birds too, though I suppose I wasn't clear enough when I spoke of them, I know that he had shown how to prepare the bird as a whole prior to washing; but that's my bad for not being specific.
What do you do to combat the stench of death during your cleaning process?
Thanks for showing me the otherside of the process/logic, us noobs whom have never done anything like this automatically assume a dude on YT who's made a career of it must be doing it right, but even they can still be not fully refined. =)
Well he flips skulls quick as hell, if you have a big business you need to get stuff done fast to make a profit, i mean, when i degrease big rams and goats it takes around 8 weeks just for the degreasing part and that's because i use ammonia, alot of people use heated water and dawn as i used to do and a big ram took around 6-7 months to be fully degreased, i hate loosing the nasal turbinates, they are so pretty. If you want to see more skulls then check out my instagram, TheGirlWhoWasDeath, collected some rams(and mouflon!)yesterday. :)
Liberator on
What exactly do you do?
Plague on
Same question from me!
cambotero on
maybe she works in a slaughter house?
TheGirlWhoWasDeath on
I'm a fishmonger actually! (And yes, i've heard all the jokes...;) )
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Haha, no i don't work at a slaughterhouse, i just have a connection with someone who does, this means i have a personal deliveryman of ram skulls, pretty neat.
Misanthropic on
Someone has got to do it right!
judascrust on
That's fucking bad ass, I cut meat in a grocery store for a living but we never get any heads haha! Looks like a hell of a hobby! do you get any meat worth eating off the head?
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Well the cheeks are real nice if you slowcook them in loads of redwine and garlic but to use the cheeks you nees to skin them right away, otherwise the meat takes on the flawor of the wool, i get them a couple of days after they have been slaughtered, so i never keep any meat unfortunately.
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Lots of work
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Yeah. This is the bad way of cleaning skulls also, i'm setting up a maceration station in the garage now, boiling skulls suck.
vikingdantheman on
"Maceration Station" Great bandname right there.
Are you selling the cleaned skulls? or keeping them all?
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Haha! It is actually!
I don't know yet, i get another batch today so i guess i can't really keep them all, i have tons of bigger horse skulls that take up alot of room aswell..
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Well, TheGirlWhoWasDeath could create "ARoomThatIsDeath" haha.
I collect skulls and bones myself, my collection grows as I find them.
My prize so far is a vertebrae from a Blue Whale that I found on the beach,
I use it as a seat/table/altar of sacrifice etc. haha.
maybe I will post some pics of it here.
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Blue whale? That is awesome. :)
TheGirlWhoWasDeath on
And i would like to see it offcource. How can you be sure it is from a big blue and not grey or humpback?
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not 100% sure of it being from a Big Blue. This is true.
ive seen many whale bones in my life, my town stopped commercial whaling in around 1976.
I know some guys who used to work there, but I have yet to ask their opinion.
we have now a "whaling museum" in the old processing factory.
it has reconstructed skeletons of some species, southern wrights, humpbacks an some others.
none are this big.
p.s I just posted a pic in the actionshots.
vikingdantheman on
p.s.s and I didn't remove it from a fleshy carcass, I found it sun bleached, broken and long buried.
just lucky it was strong winds for a week or so which uncovered part of it from its sandy tomb.
juanjotec on
I get them the ball, and I put it in caustic soda, then dry and ready , good job! good skulls !
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Well this was a test to see if i could boil the meat of faster because the method i prefer takes soo god damn long, i'll stick to the maceration, takes longer but the skulls are perfect after that.
Thrash_Maniac on
Sick! I'm a skull collector myself but I never had the chace to get a full head and clean it myself
slayerslayer on
whats the aim? plenty of people get heads and the odd carcass , some of us are even butchers .or hunters , it might be amazing to the masses , but..?.
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Well i was very excited about the whole thing when i first started doing this, now it's not that big of a deal, only when i get some odd specimens on my table i guess, getting a kangaroo in a couple of weeks and that's going to be some strange fun for me as a collector, i'm not trying to get reactions or "trve kvlt" by this post, i was just a newbie and as i said, quite excited. I never boil anything anymore, rookie mistake.
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Actually, boiling isn't a bad idea provided you're properly set up for it and use the right chemicals. Whitebone Creations Hunting method is very through and simple, and he uses a 50% water and 50% Hydrogen Proxide 40%-Concentrate for loosening up the meat and sinew underneath. He even show's ya how to take apart the jaw with ease, and how to prepare birds.
MorticiA on
Hey sista, do you watch Whitebone Creations Hunting on YT? He's hella tight, 'makes some awesome vids, 'gives tips, he's quite methodical and chill and treats the animal/skull with respect while he goes through the whole process. Also, he even shows you how to deal with creatures with horns, that in it's self is an entirely different process and usually involves removing the outer-layer horn to trim off the living tissue underneath; and then gluing the outer layer horn back on once the tissues have been cooked off.
TheGirlWhoWasDeath on
Whitebone creation is a textbook example of how not to do proper cleaning of bones, pressure washing, boiling, it's just not the proper way. Maceration or beetles, degreasing(i degrease in pure ammonia) and then whitening in peroxide, boiling and the use of a pressure washer totaly destroys the nasal turbinates and other small, fragile bones. Also skipping the vital degreasing will, in time, cause you to have a fragile, flaky skull with grease seeping out, not the way you want it.
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I rot my horn sheaths off, cut away as much meat and tissue that i can(eyes, brain etc), important to do so around the base of the horn, pop it in a plastic bag and then just wait until the horn sheaths slip off. :)
I would never do as whitebone creation, now, but each to his own. :)
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I have seen that guy pressure wash small fragile skull such as birds and rabbits, it's painful to see. :/
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@ All of the above: Ohhhh ok =o. Yea, I had seen him explain about the issues of pressure washing and losing the fragile bits and pieces. I know that he also degreases the bones (aside from bleaching) as several species are very greasy (bear, fox [if I recall correctly.])
Yea, I had seen him do birds too, though I suppose I wasn't clear enough when I spoke of them, I know that he had shown how to prepare the bird as a whole prior to washing; but that's my bad for not being specific.
What do you do to combat the stench of death during your cleaning process?
Thanks for showing me the otherside of the process/logic, us noobs whom have never done anything like this automatically assume a dude on YT who's made a career of it must be doing it right, but even they can still be not fully refined. =)
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Well he flips skulls quick as hell, if you have a big business you need to get stuff done fast to make a profit, i mean, when i degrease big rams and goats it takes around 8 weeks just for the degreasing part and that's because i use ammonia, alot of people use heated water and dawn as i used to do and a big ram took around 6-7 months to be fully degreased, i hate loosing the nasal turbinates, they are so pretty. If you want to see more skulls then check out my instagram, TheGirlWhoWasDeath, collected some rams(and mouflon!)yesterday. :)
MorticiA on
Cool, all very good to know! =)
Thanks for the instagram link =)