HOW TO MEASURE a deer cape for a shoulder mount! ***SUPER EASY*** WHITETAIL TAXIDERMY!
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2022
- Most mannequins made for deer heads are not going to match your exact measurements for your cape. In this video I explain some of the things to watch out for and how to avoid mistakes when choosing form sizes.
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Boy or boy you are so right! I learned some tough lessons myself ordering too big of a form and having to shave that bad boy down. Too much extra work!!! I’m thinking this year about measuring the neck in front of the customer so they know it’s not as big as they think lol. Another good tip thanks my man keep em coming.
Haha! Great idea
Those are some true words spoke and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had customers come pick up their deer and they say my deer had a bigger neck than that. I just tell them no it did it because if I did, I’d be able to put it on a bigger form.
Hi , new subscriber from Australia. Great content 👍
Thank you! Glad to have you!
Thanks bud!
If you get time, could you do a video on how you do the back of a pedestal mount? I dont like tucking the hide and I cant seem to leave the hide on the edge to possible curl later on! i only do a few deer and year and a lot more people are wanting pedestals after I have done a few. Appreciate it
I absolutely will. Funny you just asked this because I did 4 pedistal last week and was going to do a video on them, and completely forgot. But, it's coming on the next pedistal I have to do.
@@thecedarridgechronicles thanks
What would you consider to be to small of a form I understand going a bit smaller like you explain in your video not bigger / my measurements from eye to nose is 8” and my neck is 10” on one side so it would be 20” what would be to small for those measurements thanks for your help
18 7.5 would work, but you will probably red to build some of it up with clay where needed
Could you do a video on how you would add clay to the form?
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Is your A measurement from the tear duct or from the eyeball? Thanks.
Right in the front corner of the eye socket itself
Thanks man! Where’d you get that cap ? I like that
Thanks! I bought it at an Ace Hardware store.
I’m going to be doing my first ever on a doe. The head is made for a buck. What do you recommend? Maybe bondo?
The anatomy is slightly different on each, so the cape might fit a little funny, but as long as your measurements are the same, you might can make it work. Just dry fit it first and make sure
So I’m Running into were I can find a form from the right b measurement but the nose that they have for it isn’t close what is your thoughts I also had trouble finding a wall pedestal form that would fit the two forms are ordered always come up too big in the D measurement around the swell
You can usually go up 1/4 inch on nose length and 1/2 inch short on nose length. I would always go down 1 size in neck measurement before going way too big, but if it's only 1 size too big you can trim and sand the form
Thank you my last question is if you have a small around the eye ether in from or back how would you go about fixing it because the skin is so think would super clue be ideal
I would use 2 part epoxy
When you cape out the deer for the taxidermist, do you salt down the skin, eyes, nose, mouth to preserve it? Or borax? Or nothing and freeze it, or salt and freeze? or what?
Only put it in the freezer. It has to be fleshed before adding salt.
These Tasco forms with the preset eyes and nose done only show the nose and 1 measurement and it doesnt reference which one it is. Any idea which measurement they are showing?
I would assume it will be the B measurement on a McKenzie. Probably the same way Mears Whitetail Forms are
@@thecedarridgechronicles I think you are right, thank you.
what are your methods of stretching the cape?
I used to have a cape stretcher, but ow that I have a fleshing machine, I just stretch it by hand
What size is the average deer cape in Alabama? I’ve got to find a cape for a old mount.
A good 3.5 year old average would be 20 inches, and a mature buck average about 22 inches on the "B" measurement using McKenzie taxidermy supply's measuring system.
7 inch nose
@@thecedarridgechronicles i mount mostly ohio deer. I know these deer up here get pretty big necks (24" +) but i cant seem to get that after i tan the hide. Thats also when i do my measurements too.
So how do u suggest i get more stretch? More thinning or what? Lol
can you measure the cape after its been tanned?
Yes you can.
@@thecedarridgechronicles how do i get more stretch in my capes? I measure afyer tanning
Nice, but depending on the $$$ you paying to those idiots taxidermy, most hunter wants their buck to be big with a muscle neck like in their rut foam. Nobody wants to pay you over $500 for a doe neck or in early season buck foam. I had coupled of those deer mount in the past and ain't never gonna go back to those type of taxidermy. Might as will shoot a doe and put her cape on it... lol
Have you thought about doing a school or teaching other than on here
I may do some classes one day, but I stay so busy right now I just don’t have time