Today's Backyard Wildlife
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Did you do that mount yourself? I can't for the life of me do just a fan. Looks like cr@p when I'm done.
Yes, if I didn't care about the cost, I'd send him everything.
He did tell me how he did his turkey fans and the to clean up the feathers, but I'm not good enough at it.
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This guy is sitting on the wall outside tonight. Never seen one like this before.
I knew I felt my ears burning while out in the shop. But here lately that could just be the heat!!
Those full-size wall rugs are a lot of work. Almost as much as a life-size flying mount. When doing fan mounts, I mark my feathers and then take them completely apart, wash them, blow dry them and then arrange them back and finally Bondo/hot glue them back together. No bugs ever want mine.
Working right now on a flying turkey and one that's going to be a hanging dead mount.
First off, you wash the whole feather? And the back feathers aren't the problem, it's the layers of the little feathers that mess me up.
I wash every feather. The tail coverts have not been installed in either of those two mounts above. Here's a pic of the hanging dead mount with all but the head installed. It's actually upside down in this pic to let gravity help hold the feathers in place while drying. Which won't take long in this heat
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Incredible. It's not the washing that amazes me, it's keeping every feather annotated and where it belongs on the mount so you get them glued back in the proper place.
Man your work is amazing! You need to move to IL. It's almost as hot here as TX lol.