Pretty spiffy~
You should do moar! 8U

It's temping! I have a few more skulls to clean up, sadly most of them except maybe two are damaged, cars are not kind to foxes at all :O But I do have a few I can work with :D

people should watch where they're driving.


I know a few people who are always scouting
the road for animals as they drive.

Too true! One of the worst thing's I've come across is still living animals :/ It's so heartbreaking, it's pretty obvious people don't pull over to check and just kept going, otherwise you'd think they'd stop and do something.

xP I'm guilty of always watching the roads, for living or dead animals haha

...is TRULY ASTOUNDING! XD Man, you could fetch a pretty penny, if you did those regularly and sold them! *~^-^~* Bravo! Brava! *claps*

Sincerely, Halo_Rising

:3 It's pretty tempting, but don't know about regularly, I don't come across many foxes with intact skulls really xD Sadly the car's or the road break them, but even some parts are still usable! :D Thanks for the compliment!

I do try treating everything I get with respect, road killed stuff it's sometimes hard to find usable parts, but what I can salvage I do and I'm starting to make more crafty things out of smaller parts, not just skulls.

Thank you very much, I'm kinda glad that that people can see the effort I put into keeping even the left over parts beautiful :3

This guy I picked up off an express way locally, I got him when he was kinda old, pulled over and put him in the boot. After getting home I cut the head off carefully with a scalpel and put the body out in a corner of a paddock (field) where I could check on it. The head was frozen for a few days to kill off any bugs or parasites. After that the head put in a plastic bag which is put in heated water (Fishtank heater!) and cleaned that way.

I usually clean heads this way because you can catch all the tiny teeth as they fall out into the bag, that way no teeth are lost and the skull remains intact, even if it is damaged at all and the bones come loose :3 If I know the skull is really damaged though I tend to leave it and just put the whole body out in the paddock. Though, that does run the risk of dogs or other foxes dragging bodies away and you can loose everything.

:3 Hopefully that all makes sense - If you have any questions about it at all just ask :D It's an interesting process.

Haha I try avoiding that as much as possible, cut as much as I can with just the scalpel. Around 50% of the time I can get the skull cleanly off the head without too much twisting, but sometimes I cant get between the vertebrae that well. Twisting it off really does suck though, hate doing it lol

xD! Naah it's ok, but it's true, sometimes its the only way to safely get in between the vertebrae, but I really do try and avoid it because it feels so nasty lol

Yeah ;-; It's pretty horrible then

That's very awesome. How good are you at Celtic Knotwork? XD

Oi, I should totally get you the plastercast my brother made of a fox skull. You could totally make tons of skulls and paint them for sale, then you wouldn't have to worry about whether they're damaged or not! .... then again, I know you, and you're too lazy to make the skulls before painting them. amirite?

haha tempting! But I prefer the real deal xP I have a replica Red Wolf but it's just not the same as the uniqueness and perfection of an actual skull, there is something kinda amazing about them :3

xP Aaaand I'm too lazy!

That's what I said. XP

xD! xP I'm toooo predictable haha

Possibly terrible! lol I don't think I could design it myself, that stuff is so complex! But I think if you gave me a predone design I could give it a shot :D

I would heartily suggest a couple of white/uncolored LEDs in the cranial cavity, the soft illumination through the skull will be gorgeous!
Oh, protip: if you wanna do that, rub a little fine sandpaper or a nailfile over the LED bulb to make it opaque, helps disperse the light evenly rather than HOSHIT MY HEAD IS FULL OF LAZORS :)

xP I think Tal was going to get either red or bluuue, but I'll pass it on if he doesn't see it himself! <3 <3 Thank you pumpkin, we need to catch up sometime :O

Purdy. I'd buy one. :3

xP! yaaay haha

Wow, does totally want! That rocks ^_^

Jackal

Depending on how many skulls I get might end up selling stuff like this at Midfur, nfi yet, might stick to Dreamcatchers

You assume im going to Midfur this year. Poor jackal is poor.

Jackal

Depending on if I get many skulls, can put one aside once I figure out a price for em if I do end up making more hehe

Up to you, but that would rock!

Jackal

xP Once I work out a price and have some I'll let you know

Theres no rush on them, you know that.

Jackal

OooOOooo shiney!

xP Thanks

Interesting tip on the leds. I like that idea. ^.^ and yea ari, ill have to most definately have to show you pics once its done

:D Awesome

OMG cute.

Very nifty!

Awesome!

Nice work! Mum would die if I brought home a dead fox and stuck its head in the freezer. Always wanted to collect roadkill and stuff, but I'm not sure I have the grit to clean it up.... can't even cut up the chicken bones for the cats XD
I brought back an interesting skull I found bush bashing in Tasmania. Think it might be wombat. Mum tried to get rid of that too :D