Mikael Runefoot
Well-known member
Where the hell does everyone get all these cool skulls, bones? Many of us punks like to use bones in jewelry, or just in our art. Go searching. Train Tracks are the best place to find animal bones and dead animals. Look on stretches of tracks that are isolated, wooded and running through alot of trees. Along the beach is a great place to find animal bones and carcasses as well.
If you want bones from a animal that has just died, like roadkill, it is possible but with a bit of patience to allow the decomposition process to happen. you can speed it up a bit tho. To clean a carcass from its meat, and get to its bones, if you have the time, on a hot day get a five gallon bucket and place it in your backyard. Fill it up with hot water and leave it in the sun. Then skin the animal and take off as much meat as possible, making sure you take out all the organs. save the skins if youd like to tan them. I honestly would place the head in one bucket, the feet in another and then the rest in another. BEWARE it smells fucking terrible. over time the body will decompose faster then it would on the ground or if you buried it. The water creates some sort of bacteria to grow and move fast upon the critter. Pour out half of the old water every few days but leave in enough water so the bacteria is still growing. Then refill with clean water and wait. After some time you should have nasty, but meatless and hairless dead animal skeletons. You then can clean that.
You can also have your own dermestid beetle colony. This is what I did originally. I had my own colony of flesh eating beetles and they will eat a dead animal in a matter of days untill all you have left is bones. I just couldnt watch them and care for em like i should have ccause i needed to deal with some things away from home for a while.
Also burying is a thing. For these three ways i just listed you should always skin the animal first and take off as much meat as possible. it makes the process go a bit faster.
I personally, like the look that nature gives bones over time, i think it gives them character. but many people like their bones to be white and clean.
Most people use bleach, which is actually very terrible for the bone/skull because it makes it brittle and is easily cracked or shattered and may become flaky. Go to your grocery store and buy hydrogen Peroxide, place the bones in that for a few hours to a few days. When you pull em out your bones will be whiter then snow depending on how long you keep them in for. Does not destroy the surface of the bones. Do not put small paper like thin bones like snake ribs, or small opossum/cat claws in. They will melt into a gooey white mess.
If you want bones from a animal that has just died, like roadkill, it is possible but with a bit of patience to allow the decomposition process to happen. you can speed it up a bit tho. To clean a carcass from its meat, and get to its bones, if you have the time, on a hot day get a five gallon bucket and place it in your backyard. Fill it up with hot water and leave it in the sun. Then skin the animal and take off as much meat as possible, making sure you take out all the organs. save the skins if youd like to tan them. I honestly would place the head in one bucket, the feet in another and then the rest in another. BEWARE it smells fucking terrible. over time the body will decompose faster then it would on the ground or if you buried it. The water creates some sort of bacteria to grow and move fast upon the critter. Pour out half of the old water every few days but leave in enough water so the bacteria is still growing. Then refill with clean water and wait. After some time you should have nasty, but meatless and hairless dead animal skeletons. You then can clean that.
You can also have your own dermestid beetle colony. This is what I did originally. I had my own colony of flesh eating beetles and they will eat a dead animal in a matter of days untill all you have left is bones. I just couldnt watch them and care for em like i should have ccause i needed to deal with some things away from home for a while.
Also burying is a thing. For these three ways i just listed you should always skin the animal first and take off as much meat as possible. it makes the process go a bit faster.
I personally, like the look that nature gives bones over time, i think it gives them character. but many people like their bones to be white and clean.
Most people use bleach, which is actually very terrible for the bone/skull because it makes it brittle and is easily cracked or shattered and may become flaky. Go to your grocery store and buy hydrogen Peroxide, place the bones in that for a few hours to a few days. When you pull em out your bones will be whiter then snow depending on how long you keep them in for. Does not destroy the surface of the bones. Do not put small paper like thin bones like snake ribs, or small opossum/cat claws in. They will melt into a gooey white mess.
