I was looking for a way to mount an antelope I had taken a couple of seasons back. I wanted something different from the normal base/pedestal/plaque. So I came up with this from a thick piece of maple I had laying around.
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The idea beeing to prop up skull somewhat. Here it is with black and red transtint and poly finish
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Here with european mount in place
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Looks great !
Here it is in its final resting place at work
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I already have a couple of ideas on improving. Like joining a dark wood with a slightly smaller and liter wood and routing the slightly bigger bottom and rounding the top
Any other ideas to improve?
Looks great man. I like the angle.
Looks good!
looks really good. Great Job.
Looks nice!
Looks great
i like it
Very nice!
Nice!!!
I have something like that on a couple of chamois skull mounts. They look so much better tipped up like that.
Nice work.
Thanks guys like I said its a prototype and I have a few new ideas to improve. But much happier than with the ones that stick well out from the wall.
Looks real nice man!
Nice!
Nice! I like it. :thumbsup:
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Very nice....!
Jack
Curious, how thick is the wood at the thickest point? That looks like a pretty hefty chunk of Maple.
Tks. Pat
Love it, looks great!
Great mount! Did you get it scored??? :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: Super Job :thumbsup:
Thanks Mat good to here from you, you should come by and take advantage of the shop.
Tater it was a thick maple board two inches thick, I am going to use some one inch and glue them next.
Whiley no I didn't but I have had some folks say they thought it might be close to book
Sweet! :thumbsup:
Very nice! Like the way you angled the top portion so the skull sits more naturally. :thumbsup:
very classy looking! I have always like that style of mount and it looks like you nailed it.
That looks Great. Nicely done!
That is simple yet looks great.
Thanks all for your kind posts.
KellyG Thats pretty much my motto simple and functional, if it happens to look great to, well then bonus.