One more mount to go - Need your ideas

[RichD]

Mouth closed
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and mouth open
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Mounting with mouth open is easier said than done. I use long fine wood screws to lock jaws open on bear skulls for clients, and it is tricky. However, jaw structure on warthogs is significantly different. Difficult to find a way to run the screw through to bone strong enough to accept the screw. I used copper wire on this one ... and not very effectively.

Both these skulls need more work. SA taxidermist left too much grease in them ... among a ton of other screwups.

Yup, I agree. Tried several approaches to mount with mouth open, but none seemed viable and secure for a wall mount. So this is where I ended up - closed mouth, 3 screws from the back to pilot holes, plus a little epoxy for good measure.

 

[ILDRHNTR]

Here you go. I sent pics to my wife while I was in Botswana. She said I had to do a shoulder mount on this one. I should have done a shoulder on the gemsbok as well. Next time...

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Very nice. Congrats!

 

[Ngaka]

I like the mounts of Nyati: simply, stilish... I always order them like that.

 

[Red Leg]

Good job with those.

Another idea is to just use the tusks which is the usual European treatment for wild boar. These are two warthog on German plaques designed for such large tusks.

Below that are the same pair with a couple of bush pig tusks on proportional plaques.

 

[RichD]

Good job with those.

Another idea is to just use the tusks which is the usual European treatment for wild boar. These are two warthog on German plaques designed for such large tusks.

Below that are the same pair with a couple of bush pig tusks on proportional plaques.

Are those pictures of your own game room? Really damn impressive!

 

[mark-hunter]

Are those pictures of your own game room?

Take a look

Gun Room & Trophy Room Done

For more than a year we have been working on our guest house/trophy room/gentlemen's club/ and now gun room. We are finished! At least till the next piece of preserved fauna appears. The gun room was a real challenge. The guest house is a carriage house design sitting above the carport. So...

www.africahunting.com

 

[Red Leg]

Are those pictures of your own game room? Really damn impressive!

Yes, thank you.

 

[RichD]

Yes, thank you.

Absolutely incredibly beautiful! Thank you for sharing those pictures.

 

[Red Leg]

Absolutely incredibly beautiful! Thank you for sharing those pictures.

That was eight years ago, so a bit more crowded now.

 

[PARA45]

Good job with those.

Another idea is to just use the tusks which is the usual European treatment for wild boar. These are two warthog on German plaques designed for such large tusks.

Below that are the same pair with a couple of bush pig tusks on proportional plaques.

Love the Wood Duck painting on your wall. You sir, have excellent taste, or should I say Mr.s @Red Leg has excellent taste in decorating your man-cave?

 

[Red Leg]

Love the Wood Duck painting on your wall. You sir, have excellent taste, or should I say Mr.s @Red Leg has excellent taste in decorating your man-cave?

Nope not an iota. The guest house/trophy room/bar is totally and completely my space, but I think we did a pretty good job on the main house as well.