With bones if you want to clean them off collect potato bugs or called pill bugs some roll up in a ball some are more flattened but they will clean bones better than ants
Questions: I have shell 8" long looks to be a wood turtle maybe box turtle but she'll is more flattened out anyway when it came into my hands it was faded maybe sun bleached out anx dry I had it stored with stuff I shed roof caved in everything soaked it'd been out of wetness for about few weeks or so and seems dry I want to lacquer ( since that's what I have on hand ) but the big shell scales are loose one xamd off altogether and not as attractive with out but yij can tap on others and hear they are detached in the center will a good coat of lacquer glue this down ? Should I bake it I oven low temp to assure all moisture is out before I spray
Oven isn’t really needed, A wet shell can dry out in 24 hours. Now that the shell is dry again I would simply glue the scutes down to keep them in place. Let the glue dry for 1 day and if they look good on the shell and doesn’t need a touch up- Then Lacquer it. Give it 3 or 4 coats and you’ll be good to go*
With bones if you want to clean them off collect potato bugs or called pill bugs some roll up in a ball some are more flattened but they will clean bones better than ants
Questions: I have shell 8" long looks to be a wood turtle maybe box turtle but she'll is more flattened out anyway when it came into my hands it was faded maybe sun bleached out anx dry I had it stored with stuff I shed roof caved in everything soaked it'd been out of wetness for about few weeks or so and seems dry I want to lacquer ( since that's what I have on hand ) but the big shell scales are loose one xamd off altogether and not as attractive with out but yij can tap on others and hear they are detached in the center will a good coat of lacquer glue this down ? Should I bake it I oven low temp to assure all moisture is out before I spray
Oven isn’t really needed, A wet shell can dry out in 24 hours. Now that the shell is dry again I would simply glue the scutes down to keep them in place. Let the glue dry for 1 day and if they look good on the shell and doesn’t need a touch up- Then Lacquer it. Give it 3 or 4 coats and you’ll be good to go*