I'm a taxidermist. Ask me something.

>>737945660
Is this your fetish or something?

If not, why the fuck would you want to do this?

How did you get into it?

Do you make much money? Is there a big demand for it?

>>737945660
At what point did you realize that you were a sociopath?

>>737945806
No, it's not a fetish

Most taxidermists are family operated businesses. A family member called me and asked me about it. I needed a job, and it's unique.

>>737945660

Is Uber taking away your profits?

>>737945660
What is that? You calculate taxes?

>>737945660
What's your favorite furniture ?

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what's the weird thing you have seen like taxidermist?

>>737945660
Do you go hunt the animals or find them at the side of the road

>>737945660
If it were legal, would you taxidermy a human? But more importantly, what pose would you put them in? (Question 2 is open to other anons)

>>737945660
ever preserve a human?

why does taxidermy still exist in 2017?

who is your customer base other than edgy "pinup" girls and lame ass people from the midwest?

>>737946070
Museums are filled with this shit.

>>737945660
I'm an avid hunter and like to euro mount skulls. Deer, coyote, etc. I use the boil n scrape methos (over and over and over...) To clean it before bleaching it. Is the boiling and scraping the best method for just home hobby (I don't make a business from taxidermy), or should I do something else that's easier? (Dermestid beetles, etc). I tried the beetles a long time ago and they smelled like shit and were difficult to keep alive.

>>737945820
I personally don't, but I have worked on animals that we charged customers 60k to mount.
Some richfag comes in here often after shooting a 100k goat. He'll sit there and nitpick until it's perfect.

>>737945891
When I took a break from 4chan for a week.

>>737945921
Our customers are too pompous to use uber.

>>737945933
someome brings us a bisembodied head and we play in it until we're bloody from head to toe. Then we put it by several goat heads and speak in tongues.

>>737945951
Murphy bed

>>737945962
I don't have a weird thing, but the most unsettling thing was a man who brought in his daughter's dog who died of "old age," but we skinned the dog, and there was obvious signs of trauma. I assume he was hit by a car and the girl's father didn't want to fess up to it.

>>737945986
Others hunt. We occasionally do. Roadkill tends to jot be permitted since lost animals require a state-issued permit to kill, but when you bring in smaller animals(foxes, raccoons, ducks, etc) we don't think to look for the permits. Just the deer and big animals.

>>737945891
Around the same time you realized you're a pansy..

>>737946042
Here's the thing, it's not illegal to do such a thing to a human as long as you have permission from the human while it was still living. Many people donate their bodies to science and museums for this reason. There's a museum in face that will turn your body into plastic works of art. I would make them a masked dancer or something else interactive.

>>737946047
No, but I have stabbed myself many times and got preservative in me. Insects don't like to bite me much anymore.

>>737946070
Rich men with small dicks and people who hunt for food, but see a creature they respect and want it to look alive again. I like the hunters, because they are genuinely generous, kind, and respectful.
and assholes, but those are everywhere.

>>737946295
We personally boil skulls in a high concentration of hydrogen peroxide tharbir should be illegal for us to keep. One drop and that part of your fucking arm is going to burn for the next six weeks. It still smells fucking awful, especially when we can't do many skulls at once, so we'll have 15 awaiting boiling. They rot away until the fucking place smells like putrid cake frosting. It's worse than normal "rot"

>>737945660
have any favorite bad taxidermy examples

any interesting constructions you've made form spare parts

any questionable inquiries for taxiderming?

>>737946464 Jesus Christ the girl's father kill it

>>737947484
Not particularly any I've seen in person. We have shit that hits the uncanny valley, like bobcats, but nothing that makes me shudder.

We usually turn spare forms into rocks, but we haven't frankensteined anything questionable save for a few Tv show props notionally made to be ugly as fuck.

Only questionable things we get are people wondering if we can mount eagles and owls. For the record, if we do. They have to be donated to science or schools. You cannot legally own bird of prey parts and mounts.

>>737945660
Do you ever have nightmares over the the unfinished horrors?

>>737945660
Did you do any of the Trump wives?

>>737945660
what is your profession

Ever do a hippo?

>>737948525
he's a taxidermist, pay attention.

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>>737945660
If I brought in a mouse head could u get it stuffed and mount it on a place for me? Also if yes what would t
He price range be?

>>737948088
It was the small and happy type, if it's any consolation.

>>737948162
I had a nightmare that my foot was skinned off, dried and rotted. The skills here can cometimes dry while rotting, turning their red muscle tissue black. I'll be back during deer hunting season in September or November and show some examples of the gore fest

>>737948394
No, but we have or are doing something for one of the trump family members, or so I am told. Something small.

>>737945660
Is that my nigga Jason?

>>737948783
thats pretty spooky.

>>737948552
No hippo.
Multiple giraffes, lions, and cheetoh-puff balled leopards, but no hippo.

>>737948621
You could, but you're better off doing it at home, bruh.
Get some xacto-blades, borax, stuffing, a sewing needle, thread, probably some foam to make a somewhat triangular shape you can cut out, some thin coat hanger wire, black beads for eyes, and a bit of clay and you're good to go.

>>737948951
No Jasons here. Try again.

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>>737945660
As a fellow taxidermist i appreciate others in the profession.

>>737945660
have you ever put your dick in dead animals mouth or anus??

>>737945660
Do you know, could the conditions of preserving a body in the way bog bodies were, could it be replicated in say, a bath? or is it more specific to the flora and fauna, the ecosystem of the bogs?

>>737949140
J-son?

>>737946464
>we skinned the dog, and there was obvious signs of trauma
when a dog is very old with cancer or some shit they sometimes have to be put to sleep
the father just put it to sleep with a shovel

>>737945660
Are you Chuck Testa?

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>>737949158
>mfw there's other taxidermists on 4chan

>>737949226
Nope.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope

>>737949333
I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the acidity and nitrogen content of the bogs.

>>737949503
It's possible.

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>>737949226
Yes, a couple times

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>>737949716
Indeed there are. Unsurprising as taxidermy is an iconoclast profession, and 4chan is filled with abnormalities.

>>737950809
Are you ready for the taxidermy anime?

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>>737951192
So ready! Im more pumped than for anything before, besides taxidermy of course.

>>737948783
>Something small
Not the presidential penis, by any chance?

>>737951885
I lied. It's not real, but now you realize you need it in your life.

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>>737952445
I already have it in my life... But it could have more taxidermy.

>>737953194
Are you independent or do you work with a crew?

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>>737953441
Mostly by myself, but occasionally my daughter lends me a hand.

What what the coolest you have taxerdermised

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>>737945660
do you ever get to work on non-traditional stuff?

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>>737953580
How many hands does she use, anon?

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YOOO amateur taxidermist here. ive only done mice and rats but have been working on birds lately. (not mounting more like preserving wings and getting bones)

pic related, something i sold on my etsy
What you think OP?

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>>737953967
heres a cat skull with preserved flowers i sold

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>>737953966
Depends on how many she has free at the time...
But mainly between 2 and 4.

>>737953967
That is easily the most autistic thing I have seen all month...please do the right thing for your family and kill yourself

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>>737954380
what do you think of this one?
i made it for halloween

>>737953591
Lions, Zebras, cheeto-puff balled leopards, iguanas, bears. Whatever you think is cool.

>>737953893
Non-traditional stuff isn't what customers want、so unfortunately no. I want to actually have animals if weird or dynamic positions.

>>737953580
dont fuse her with the dog.

>>737953967
Cute. Try to make sure things are even and symmetrical.
The eyes on that mouse aren't level and the one on the right is further in than the one on the left. Bring it out more. Novelty stuff is good. People love it, and you're more likely to have random buys.

>>737949716
>>737949158
How do I get into this proffession?

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What was the first thing you worked on?

>>737945660
Do you carve the structures from scratch or do you buy like, a deer form and fit the skin on it? And best tool/knife maker?

>>737954076
Now I like this.
Neogothic artsy stuff is perfectly okay with me.

>>737954637
good advice, thanks. yeah i have a hell of a time with the eyes.

>>737945660
>>>737945660
>
>Is Uber taking away your profits?

Kek

>>737954747
We usually buy a form, but things don't often fit, so we have to sculpt the face and body a bit.

>>737954649
Call up a nearby taxidermist and ask if they will take on an apprentence or intern. You probably won't get paid, since it takes a lot to train people at times. There's also taxidermy conventions.

>>737954653
Giraffe.

>>737954877
Life is often about symmetry. Things get easier the more you know what to look for. You'll also get quicker.

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>>737954800
Hmmm well how about this one then? "Gothy"

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>>737954637
Whaaat? Nooo.... I would never... No.... I mean who would even think of... Hmm this gives me an idea for a new mount.

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>>737955084
Second pic

>>737945891
No fetish in appreciating the elegance and biology of animals in the traditional art of taxidermy in an age in which we are so far away from nature and turning it into your profession for profit

>>737955084
Definity look at pictures of mice while you make these to help you get the right face shape. I also suggest getting a paint with a more ink-light consistency and not as opaque. Blood should have more of a staining effect rather than coating.

>>737955588
>"profit"
Personally, I like trying t bring the animals back to life.
It's almost insulting to me when someone wants a duck "dead" mounted.
You already killed it, fucker. You want it more dead?

>>737945660
how long do you think it would take you to skin a human?

>>737955947
Probably a while. Human skin is thin and fragile, and any knick would show up easily. It's also easy to flesh (remove fat/meat) a hole in human skin, due to being so thin. I had to mount a baboon once. Aside from the creepy as fuck hands and feet that kept peeling, I would never want to attempt a human. It's too much trouble. Donate yourself somewhere else.

>>737945660
Has competition from Uber and Lyft hurt your business?

Can you taxidermy a fish

>>737956801
Yep. We can skin, mount, and paint it like a deer. We pour a resin over them to give them an extra glossy look.
If you're also a "tall tale" person, you can give measurements (length and widest part of a belly) and call to have a replica made.

>>737956285
damn thanks for the insight, no wonder human taxidermist were always considered masters

>>737957070
Got any wicked huge animals or scary looking shit you stuffed or have laying around

>>737945660
are you a taxidermist?

>>737957250
Due to the nature of taxidermy, Imve never heard of a successful human taxidermist. I know that a few people have tried it, but you're better off scaping someone and having a wax replica made. It will look better and probably last a bit longer with less yellowing.

What was your hardest work?

>>737957290
Oxen, many, many, many skulls, elk, we have a plastic rhino. There's talk of having me start up a fucking dinosaur replica, but nothing really scary.

>>737957717
Post some

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>>737957886
Unfortunately, I'm not at the shop right now, and it would be tomorrow before I was. All I have on my phone are squirrels and a bufflehead duck.

>>737946295
Boiling and bleach are both awful methods that will prematurely degenerate the bone. You should use a different method, like maceration. Faggot.