| Re: couple of 'yote skulls
Well, there are a handfull of ways to clean skulls. One of the most common is boiling, but that typically leads to shrinkage and can be damaging to the skull. Mageration is another option, and although it works well, it takes months and is one of the most rank foul smelling options. Basically, you let the skull sit in stagnant water and the bacteria eats away at the meat. I use option 3 which uses dermestid beetles. My beetles can completely clean and strip a typical deer size skull in about 2 days.
After the cleaning process is done, the next step is to degrease and whiten. Every animal is different, but typically, meat eaters and dirty animals have extrememly greasy bones. Hogs being the #1 worst and bears being a very close second. I degrease with a number of methods of either plain dawn and water, or ammonia, or even acetone. This step you just let them soak and change out the solution every so often when it gets cloudy. Once that's done, it goes in with peroxide. Either 3% or 6% (20volume) or 12% (40 volume) depending upon what results I want.
That's it for the most part. there's a bit more to it than that, but that's the basics.
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