Drill carefully into the skull at those points with a power drill.
How to mount a skull with horns to the wall.
Skin and cut as much meat and hide as possible.
The style and construction of your mounting plate is completely up to you.
Step 1 mark the placement for two small holes on the back of the steer skull directly behind the eye sockets.
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The wall hook needs to have that extra bend in the top arm because that is what s holding the skull up.
Anyway so i purchased my cow skull at an antique store for under 20 dollars and i came home and placed it on a hook that i had already hanging on our wall and it worked perfect.
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The next step is to place the skull cap in a pot of water add 1 tablespoon of sodium carbonate to the water then simmer for 20 30 minutes.
Now whenever i want to move this baby around our home which i do often it has been in 4 different rooms now seriously.
Once you have a good design trace it onto your wood.
Use a drill bit slightly smaller than the screws so that the screws do not slip or shift after the skull is mounted on the wall.
Cut the antler off the skull as shown in fig 1.
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Sketch the shape of your plaque on a piece of paper.
In this case you remove the antlers keeping them connected to the skull plate by sawing down into the skull in front of both antlers and just behind the eye sockets.
The most common method of mounting deer antlers on a plaque involves keeping the antlers intact with the skull plate.