Post by joanne2 on Sept 27, 2009 10:33:18 GMT -5
More roadkill. Passed by it the other day.. actually my daughter did and we were in her Buick Riviera. She must love me a lot cause this is the second roadkill in a week she actually turned around for and allowed me to load into her trunk.. good thing she's one of those shopaholics cause we had plastic bags on us! I thought it was a beaver at first...what was that!! turn around! Turn around!
so anyway the coat's kinda lacking in undercoat..but couldn't resist.. it was just too cute.. Funny how the creature had a broken back and the hair and skin was remarkably unmarred by the whole collision that ended it's life. Anyway I think ya'll can tell how sweet the powerwashers clean these little bloody messes up.. I used mostly my large fiskars to pull the toes inside out and cut the joints apart.. and also to trim off nearly all of the flesh on it's muzzle. I just cleaned it up really well, washed it in some warm sudsy Dawn dish soap.. (really I gotta buy some commercial degreasers cause Dawn just is made for greasy dishes).. anyway..I then shop vac dried the fur and salted the skin real well and set in hair up to keep the fur drying and allow moisture to seep into the towel below.. anyway it really needs some serious thinning as the way it is anything would be difficult to penetrate this tight fibrous makeup that the skin's composed of.. I want it all to look thin and blueish and then I'll tan it with something.. not sure what. I would like to try some acorn paste just layered on the well shaven skin.
anyway some unprime woodchuck pics
I want to take a scalpel and separate his ears from the cartilage too.. just look nicer IMO than all crunched up.
You can just see how much this skin needs to be thinned in this pic. Might do it yet with the bench grinder.. still don't have the fleshing machine mounted in the table! probably am a bit intimidated by it.. will certainly wonder,,(hopefully) when it is ready to use just what the heck took me 6 mos or more to get her spinning!
I think I can envision this little pelt tanned being combined with some deerskin to make a lovely quiver or something cool like that. Might try to take a ride somewhere and collect some acorns to grind up.. saw some yesterday by the fairgrounds on the ground.
so anyway the coat's kinda lacking in undercoat..but couldn't resist.. it was just too cute.. Funny how the creature had a broken back and the hair and skin was remarkably unmarred by the whole collision that ended it's life. Anyway I think ya'll can tell how sweet the powerwashers clean these little bloody messes up.. I used mostly my large fiskars to pull the toes inside out and cut the joints apart.. and also to trim off nearly all of the flesh on it's muzzle. I just cleaned it up really well, washed it in some warm sudsy Dawn dish soap.. (really I gotta buy some commercial degreasers cause Dawn just is made for greasy dishes).. anyway..I then shop vac dried the fur and salted the skin real well and set in hair up to keep the fur drying and allow moisture to seep into the towel below.. anyway it really needs some serious thinning as the way it is anything would be difficult to penetrate this tight fibrous makeup that the skin's composed of.. I want it all to look thin and blueish and then I'll tan it with something.. not sure what. I would like to try some acorn paste just layered on the well shaven skin.
anyway some unprime woodchuck pics
I want to take a scalpel and separate his ears from the cartilage too.. just look nicer IMO than all crunched up.
You can just see how much this skin needs to be thinned in this pic. Might do it yet with the bench grinder.. still don't have the fleshing machine mounted in the table! probably am a bit intimidated by it.. will certainly wonder,,(hopefully) when it is ready to use just what the heck took me 6 mos or more to get her spinning!
I think I can envision this little pelt tanned being combined with some deerskin to make a lovely quiver or something cool like that. Might try to take a ride somewhere and collect some acorns to grind up.. saw some yesterday by the fairgrounds on the ground.