DIY euro'd my rifle buck.

[Ketchup]

On a euro, is it common to include the lower jaw, or to discard it?

[Stein]

11 minutes ago, Ketchup said:

On a euro, is it common to include the lower jaw, or to discard it?

I've never seen one before with the lower on a euro mount. 

[JohnP]

9 hours ago, Seth said:

Those turned out great! I did a euro on my bow buck and one that my buddy got during rifle season. Simmer in water with a little dish soap for thirty minutes, power wash and repeat two more times to get all of the gunk off. Once the racks air dried for a few hours, I put a coat of volume 40 creme developer and set them out in the sun for a day. Mine could probably stand to use another coat of whitener, but his turned out perfect. This picture is after his had been sitting in the sun with the peroxide on it for a few hours and mine after it had air dried and just before I applied the whitener to it.

The smell wasn't pleasant but the worst part of the job to me was having to wear a rain suit and goggles to power wash it due to all of the meat and and gristle that seemed to end up on me.

Looking good Seth.  Did you just use the 40 volume creme or did you mix it with the whitener powder and make a paste like I did?  Thinking of just trying just the creme next time to see it will work.  

[JohnP]

6 hours ago, Ketchup said:

On a euro, is it common to include the lower jaw, or to discard it?

I haven't seen very many with the lower jaw done, just wanted to see how doable it was and it really wasn't the bad.  The biggest issue I had was realigning the 2 lower jaw front halves to match up evenly into the sockets behind the eyes.

[JohnP]

12 hours ago, Kayak_Runner said:

Your mount looks awesome!

I'm waiting for mine to dry right now!.....I got some dirty looks using the self-serve car wash power washer to clean it after boiling LOL!

Got quite a few off looks as well ;).

[Seth]

6 minutes ago, JohnP said:

Looking good Seth.  Did you just use the 40 volume creme or did you mix it with the whitener powder and make a paste like I did?  Thinking of just trying just the creme next time to see it will work.  

I just use the creme and let it sit in the sun for a day. In fact, I usually don’t even have to wash it afterwards because I just do a thin coat. I guess the creme basically evaporates after it does its thing.