snakeblitz33
Well-Known Member
Yeah, everything that I post ends up as "Snake's this or that" Well, for one reason, it helps me to find my threads in the search menu. LOL.
Anyways, with that said, some of you on the forums seem to be interested in my taxidermy work. Some of these pictures I had a part in, some my whole family did and some was just my dads work. There are too many pictures that I have of random animals that I have to be able to know who's is who's. So, with that said, I will try to label what I can and try to tell yah the name of the animal.
Taxidermy is the art of "moving skin" at least that's what taxidermy means in Latin. We take an animal that has been taken, bagged and tagged and we process it into a finished product. The process is basically removing anything organic that can break down and decay. This process can take two hours for most animals or even two days for others. The mounting process is where we take the processed material that is left and fit it over a form to make it resemble, as close to nature as possible, a live animal, frozen in time. Then there comes the finish work where we do all of the molding, painting, and detail work to get it all ... well, finished.
Taxidermy truly is an art - and not everyone could do the work that it takes or have the patience to do it. I admit that it is pretty repetitive work as well, but fulfilling when the customer sees their mounts for the first time. I take great pleasure in the work that I do - and I love to see customers faces full of happiness as they leave the shop with their mount.
By sharing these pictures, I am not trying to advertise where I work at all. I am merely showing some mounts that I am proud of with the people of saltwaterfish.com and I hope that you find some entertainment out of it.
I can answer pretty much any question about taxidermy as long as it does not violate saltwaterfish.com forum rules. I can not and will not write the process from start to finish about any animal.
So, without further ado:
Anyways, with that said, some of you on the forums seem to be interested in my taxidermy work. Some of these pictures I had a part in, some my whole family did and some was just my dads work. There are too many pictures that I have of random animals that I have to be able to know who's is who's. So, with that said, I will try to label what I can and try to tell yah the name of the animal.
Taxidermy is the art of "moving skin" at least that's what taxidermy means in Latin. We take an animal that has been taken, bagged and tagged and we process it into a finished product. The process is basically removing anything organic that can break down and decay. This process can take two hours for most animals or even two days for others. The mounting process is where we take the processed material that is left and fit it over a form to make it resemble, as close to nature as possible, a live animal, frozen in time. Then there comes the finish work where we do all of the molding, painting, and detail work to get it all ... well, finished.
Taxidermy truly is an art - and not everyone could do the work that it takes or have the patience to do it. I admit that it is pretty repetitive work as well, but fulfilling when the customer sees their mounts for the first time. I take great pleasure in the work that I do - and I love to see customers faces full of happiness as they leave the shop with their mount.
By sharing these pictures, I am not trying to advertise where I work at all. I am merely showing some mounts that I am proud of with the people of saltwaterfish.com and I hope that you find some entertainment out of it.
I can answer pretty much any question about taxidermy as long as it does not violate saltwaterfish.com forum rules. I can not and will not write the process from start to finish about any animal.
So, without further ado:
