Easy Skull Maceration Process 

First! Get On My Level! Okay now I’ll watch video 😎! Love y’all hope all is well!

I live in Virginia and you have officially inspired me to start my own European skull mountain business. You are a true legend for helping me with this. Thanks! Love this channel

Holy Crap!! I wish I would have watched your video a month ago. I had on surgical gloves, but while shaving off some meat after maceration, I punctured my finger ever so slightly, just a slight prick. 4 days later my finger blew up and was absolutely infected. Since then, I have been on 3 rounds of antibiotics and probably going to have to have a doctor slice open my index finger and irrigate it. To anyone who follows 5M, what he said about infection is absolutely true and important!

Thank you you’re awesome dude. I’m just getting into cleaning bones I have been collecting for a while thank you for your videos !! You’re helping people like me so much and saving us so much money on our collections lol.

Fantastic video, man! Thanks

thanks for the in depth video guide!

Thanks for the education.

Very interesting

Looks good

Thank you nice work😅

Helpful video.

Your videos are awesome and I wish I had found them earlier. My husband usually does our skulls but I thought I would try it out myself so he gave me a down and dirty period of instruction then let me have at it. I didn’t use the maceration process, instead I fleshed out my skull then boiled it with water, 1/2 cup of baking soda and a heavy squirt of Dawn Dish Soap. During the boil I added some Landmark TSP Heavy Duty Cleaner, about 1/3 cup. When the meat started coming off I cleaned/power washed all the skulls until clean. I let them dry over night, then I put the creme mixture on the skulls for 24 hours, then rinsed. My question is, can I re-whiten a skulls that I have already whitened with a powder lightener/40 volume creme developer mixture after boiling and cleaning? I did 1 mule deer and 2 black bear skulls in the same manner together. All skulls have areas that are grayish and it appears that there is a little bit of flaking on areas of the skulls, but not much. Also, the bear skulls appear to still have grease in the skulls. Can I rehydrate these skulls in water and use your whitening method without damaging the skulls? I really want them to be nice and white and I would like to get the remaining grease out of the bear skulls. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Can I just dump the water I use onto the ground next to a river? I'm sure there is probably some run off of the 5 gallons but those natural bacteria won't hurt anything right?

That skull could be done in half the time if you change the water every 2-3 days. If you want to keep the lower jaw in tact take it out a few days earlier.

Cool video! With the peroxide do you think it will degrease long nose gar without damaging the heads?

thank you! the process i’ve been doing has taken me weeks to months for 1 skull and i’ve just wanted a way to speed up the process, thank you!

How many times can you reuse the 20 volume peroxide and how do you store it after using it?

Thank you for your detailed explanation, Can this process be done for smaller skulls?

Not sure if you’ll answer, but what is a benefit in using the developer opposed to some peroxide? I just recently got into this myself, and trying to learn as much as I can!

i found a rat and im gonna try the mason jar maceration. but i live in the netherlands we dont have hunters or hunting grounds so there is like no easy way to come by death animals.

thats an adjustable temp heater do you just turn it too the highest setting?

What do you use to glue the skull when it is a bit loose.?

is there a way to repair the split between the nasals on top, or is that just part of the process when they are degreasing/drying?

What about the cartlidge on the back of the skull, there's two knobs near the brain that just won't rot off

also very much worried about infection. so i have a mask and goggles, and 2 layers of gloves . beter looking stupid than death right

What if you added some Rid-X to the water just to help create bacteria quicker?

Do you add the whole gallon of developer when you are going to bleach it or half and half

What kind of fish tank heater do you recommend?

Wearing a back the blue shirt while getting covered in stink is way too appropriate 🤣

Do you still have beetles?

Do you know what temperature your water is?