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1. The Complete Guide to Small Game Taxidermy: How to Work with Squirrels, Varmints, and Predators
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The Complete Guide to Small Game Taxidermy How to Work with Squirrels Varmints and PredatorsDescription
There are plenty of books on taxidermy, but none covers small game with the learning and depth of THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SMALL GAME TAXIDERMY. Drawing on generations of experience, the author covers all aspects of the art. From proper field care and tanning to crafting life-size mounts, this book will help any individual to approach master status.
Chapters cover topics like basic base building, making a life-size bobcat mount, and more. The author relates a lifetime of invaluable tips on the subtle arts of the ear and mouth--when to choose open and when to choose closed--and why field care is where good taxidermy starts.
Whether the reader is pursuing taxidermy as a hobby or a profession, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SMALL GAME TAXIDERMY will prove an invaluable guide.
Chapters cover topics like basic base building, making a life-size bobcat mount, and more. The author relates a lifetime of invaluable tips on the subtle arts of the ear and mouth--when to choose open and when to choose closed--and why field care is where good taxidermy starts.
Whether the reader is pursuing taxidermy as a hobby or a profession, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SMALL GAME TAXIDERMY will prove an invaluable guide.
2. The Essential Guide To Taxidermy - From Trap to Trophy: How to Trap, Skin, Prepare, Mount and Stuff Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Fish and Insects
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The Essential Guide to Taxidermy From Trap to Trophy How to Trap Skin Prepare Mount and Stuff Animals Birds Reptiles Fish and InsectsDescription
Imbued by experience, this expertly written guide to taxidermy delivers a strong understanding of all stages of the process.Compiled by Dalton Harriott, a committed outdoorsman of over three decades standing, we witness in this encompassing text detailed explanations vital to the aspiring taxidermist. Elements of technique regarding mammals, birds and reptiles are discussed in turn, while the importance of good equipment, practice and a solid grounding in theory are spoken about at length.
Preservation techniques are also discussed, with several proven formulae established and current detailed with instructions. To name but a few examples; we've the means of assembling wiring, proper care, tending and affixing of feathers; and correct posturing of animals during the mounting process.
Drawing upon wisdom passed down through generations, as well as contemporary developments, this text combines tried and true procedures with modern developments. Sensitive to readers based at home, in institutions of learning, and inclined to the wilderness, the author writes in an accessible, wise and comprehensive manner easily discerned by the reader. Each part broadly evidences the passion with which the author confronts this pursuit.
The aspiring taxidermist will, upon perusing this manual, hold an excellent foundation to proceeding with this craft.
3. Taxidermy Art: A Rogue's Guide to the Work, the Culture, and How to Do It Yourself
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ArtisanDescription
In this collection of taxidermy art, youll find a winged monkey with a fez and a martini glass, a jewel-encrusted piglet, a bionic fawn, and a polar bear balancing on a floating refrigerator. Author Robert Marbury makes for a friendly (and often funny) guide, addressing the three big questions people have about taxidermy art: What is it all about? Can I see some examples? and How can I make my own? He takes readers through a brief history of taxidermy (and what sets artistic taxidermy apart) and presents stunning pieces from the most influential artists in the field. Rounding out the book are illustrated how-to lessons to get readers started on their own work, with sources for taxidermy materials and resources for the budding taxidermist.
4. Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning: The Amateur's Primer on Mounting Fish, Birds, Animals, Trophies
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Information on how to preserve all sizes of animals Information on how to mount trophies 12 different tanning techniquesDescription
All the basics for turning out successful taxidermy and tanning projects. Step-by-step instructions are wasy to follow and fully illustrated.5. Guide to Taxidermy (Classic Reprint)
6. Crap Taxidermy
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Crap TaxidermyDescription
A humorous look at what happens when taxidermy goes terribly wrong, by the founder of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com.A relaxed toad enjoying a smoke and a brew. A cat with eerily flexible front legs. A smiling lion with receding gums. Whether you choose to laugh or cringe at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, you won't be able to tear your eyes away from the curiosities inside. This volume brings together the very best of the worst (along with a DIY "Stuff Your Own Mouse" lesson by an Insect Preparator from the American Museum of Natural History), showcasing the most perverse yet imaginative anatomical reconstructions of the animal kingdom you'll ever see.
7. Stuffed Animals: A Modern Guide to Taxidermy
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Countryman PressDescription
A quirky, timely, and disturbingly beautiful how-to taxidermy guide, emphasizing ethical sourcing and personal expression
Whether inspiration came from an exhibition at an edgy art gallery, a visit to the Natural History Museum, or the sight of your crazy uncles jackalope, more and more people are opening up to the fun and wonder of taxidermy. A mix of art, science, and a touch of alchemy, taxidermy lets you engage with the natural world in ways most other people dont. In Stuffed Animals, Divya Anantharaman and Katie Innamorato demystify the practice, shatter the gross stereotypes, and make taxidermy accessible to anyone, anywhere. Committed to ethical and sustainable sourcing, Anantharaman and Innamorato are part of the vanguard of young taxidermists who bring a sense of fun and experimentation to this old-school hobby. In their sold-out classes in Brooklyn, they teach hundreds of taxidermy novices how to create mantle-worthy pieces out of small birds and mammals. Both a helpful how-to manual and a strangely captivating gift book, Stuffed Animalsis the definitive guide to a growing movement. 100+ color photographs8. Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy
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Welcome to Victorian taxidermist Walter Potters fantasy world of rabbit schoolchildren, cigar-smoking squirrels and exemplary feline etiquette in Walter Potters Curious World of TaxidermyWalter Potter (18351918), a British country taxidermist of no great expertise, built anthropomorphic taxidermy tableaux that became famous icons of Victorian whimsy, including his masterpiece The Death & Burial of Cock Robin. His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex, was crammed full of multi-legged kittens, two-headed lambs, and a bewildering assortment of curios. Potters inspired and beguiling tableaux found many fans in the contemporary art world: it was reported that a 1M bid by Damien Hirst to keep the collection intact was refused when the museum finally closed. Here, perhaps for the last time, many important pieces from the collection are showcased and celebrated with new photographs of Potters best-loved works. Darkly witty and affecting, Walter Potters Curious World of Taxidermy makes a charming, whimsical (and yes, slightly morbid) gift.
9. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit (Illustrated Edition)
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Taxidermy by Albert Farnham is a guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration. This volume of the Pleasure and Profit Library is offered to the hunter, trapper, fisher, vacationist and out of doors people in general. Thoroughness, patience, and some love for nature, are qualities highly desirable in this art. Work prepared by one possessing these qualities need not be ashamed and practice will bring skill and perfection of technique. As a handicraft in which the workman has not been displaced or made secondary by a machine taxidermy is noticeable also, and for many reasons is worthy of its corner in the home work-shop. Albert B. Farnham endeavored to give preference to short cuts and time-saving methods where possible, and especially hints on saving interesting and valuable specimens temporarily until sufficient leisure is had to do justice to their further preservation.10. The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning: A Complete Guide to Working with Pelts, Fur, and Leather