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Scrimshaw Tutorial
Published: 2008-12-16 23:05:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 41323; Favourites: 658; Downloads: 684
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I have combined both tuts so they are now one big one!Enjoy!
Where did I get my ivory and baleen? read: [link]
A big warm huggle and thanks to 'Kitten-of-Woe and ^znow-white for the DD! When I got home from vacation it was the best gift ever! Thanks to all who favorite and comment.
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Hello! This was a *brilliant* tutorial, but I'm wondering about how to clean bone before using it. I recently received a cow skull and a coyote skull, and I'd love to create a scrimshaw design on them. However, they're both a little dirty and the coyote skull has some... bits on it. They look a little old and dried on.Β
I've read that you can boil/bleach the bones, but I'm afraid that may weaken or discolor them. How would you recommend cleaning skulls/bones for scrimshaw?
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There are a few way to clean the bones. We boil them....more like simmer them....till all the gunk and stuff comes off.Β The boiling also cleans and disinfects the skull in all the nooks and crannies. And then we let them sit in some hydrogen peroxide to make sure all of the organic material is gone.Β If you do not thoroughly clean the skull you can grow some nasty and dangerous things in it, molds and bacterial colonies. It will also make the skull more attractive to other predator animals. We had a few dogs find a couple of uncleaned skulls and eat them.....which is pretty disturbing!Β If you are afraid of boiling them you can purchase taxidermy kits that come with a chemical cleaner type of deal.Β You can find them at any taxidermy or sportsman hunting store.Β The process usually lightens the color of the skull, if you wantΒ darker color you can stain it in a tea or coffee solution for short periods of time till yo get the color you like.Β Be prepared to glue back a few teeth as they will come loose.Β
Hope this helps!
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That is super helpful, thank you!!!!
I read from someone online that boiling would make the skull look yellowed and greasy, but your instructions make sense to me. I definitely want to disinfect them as much as possible before using them as art pieces! If necessary there are hunting stores close by so I can try that route if I have any trouble with the boiling/hydrogen peroxide method. I may not have a pot big enough for the cow skull, come to think of it. Maybe I will try different methods on each and compare.
Thanks again
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Oops - almost forgot - for sealing the piece - at least with the ivory, be sure the pigment is completely dry (couple of days if it's ink, several weeks if you're using oil paint), you can use "Renaissance Wax" available from Amazon. A little container will last years and makes a beautiful resilient finish.
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Nicely done! Thanks for sharing the tutorial on both materials. Love the look of "reverse scrimshaw" (black background, white pigment).
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I think I want to try this out when I teach. Would be an awesome thing to do with high school-level.
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It works great for middleschool-highschool level art classes. I had good success with it at around the 8th grade and up level.
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Brilliant
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I'm thinking about doing this with a deer jawbone. Do you think it will work? Any tips??
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Should work!
Just make sure you seal it well. I did a wolverine skull and that step turned out to be the most important step!
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I remember seeing that wolverine skull. So cool!!
What did you use to seal it?
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I use the a non-yellowing poly seal.
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Alright! I'll see if I can find myself some lol
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This is an amazing and very helpful tutorial!
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You're very welcome!
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Neat! Thanks for the clear and concise tutorial. I was wondering how people seal their pieces after the fact...
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Wow- fantastic work! such a great step by step guide as well!
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You are welcome
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Thanks for liking it!
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superb, won't give you the "I wish I could..."
deserved daily deviation
clap clap
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somting im goin recomend to my art teacher....
thankz!!!
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Thank yoU!
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your welcome =]
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Very interesting tutorial. Looks interesting and fun. someday i will try it out (:
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Wow, that looks really fun! I'll have to try sometime.
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thank you so much Ive been trying out scrimshaw for my metals and jewelery class and this helps me out alot and its great because I use riogrande too. You might even know my grandfather's work his name was kenneth boulier he would carve eagle heads out of whale teeth, scrimshaw, and make stone knives
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Wonderful!
I'm afraid my circles pretty much run in the small village type....lol
Good luck!
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I just scrimshawed a handle on one of my knifes I'll upload it soon
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look forward to seeing it
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Whoa~ thorough and well documented, a great tutorial [if only for interest sake in my case]
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In my opinion this is some kind of well deserved DD. Some handwork combined with Art
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Best comment ever!
hahahhaha
especially since they are rather beat up
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Lmao gld you likes it
Seriously though, nice fingers.
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