Finishing your skull

Step 5: Finishing your skull

1. Glue in any teeth that fell out during the process using Krazy Glue super glue. Don't use a glue gun. The teeth may stick out funny or crooked, and hot glue does not last. It can also look tacky if it oozes out.

2. Buy plain, clear nail polish and paint it on both sides of all of the skull's teeth. This will help to prevent the teeth from splitting in the future.

3. I like to spray my skulls with a clear semi-gloss wood finish. This may take several coats. This is not necessary, but I like the added gloss. You can also glue the lower jaw onto the upper part of the skull if you wish to & pose it so the mouth is open in a snarl.

YOU'RE FINISHED!

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paqrat says: Jun 1, 2012. 1:13 AM

I have been wanting to gold leaf a skull ( not real gold leaf, too expensive) but have had problems getting and keeping a skull. A large possum was obliging enough to get run over by a car on the road beside the house. I got the carcass and placed it in the yard under a tree to let nature takes its course. I kept watch on it from time to time and all was going well until I went out one day and found my possum skull AWOL. The rest of the carcass was still there but something had liberated my skull. I also had two raccoon skulls vanish from the fenced in back yard in similar fashion. Only thing I can figure got the skulls in the backyard would be either possums or raccoons. No dogs in the neighborhood could get in and out of the yard. Your instructable will be most helpful if I can manage to hold onto a skull long enough to use it. I am somewhat anxious about either boiling or water method as my house is pretty close to others next door and I don't want to be a bad neighbor.

rouge.renard in reply to paqratJun 25, 2012. 7:59 PM

I did this with a woodpecker a little while ago. I made a dome out of 1/4" wire mesh and staked it down with a couple of 6 inch nails that I had stashed away and it work like a perfectly.