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Grafton
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Here are a couple of mounts I just completed. Shootaway's cape buffalo pedestal mount and impala shoulder mount from his Zimbabwe safari:








This is the back of the mount, a baobab tree painted on distressed pigskin.








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Good job capturing the character of the buff....love the ears!

Congrats to Shootaway!


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very nice work!!
 
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Super work grafton - Congrats Shootaway!


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Thanks for everything,Grafton! I sure made the right choice in choosing you as my taxidermist.
 
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Thanks for everything,Grafton! I sure made the right choice in choosing you as my taxidermist.


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WOW;good job.

Love the eyebrow work and the nose pad.

Just enough sheen and nice color.

Fantastic.
 
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Very nice Buffalo Grafton!
Congratulations shootaway
 
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Originally posted by RREESE:
Nice work Grafton! But I'm curious, did you grind the bosses down for artistic purposes or were they already small and narrow?


No taxidermist would EVER do that!!

Grafton, superb job on the buff!! I like the baobab on the leather backing. Classy.
Thanks for sharing the pics with us.
 
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Beautiful taxidermy and fantastic painting, Grafton! thumb


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Thanks for everything,Grafton! I sure made the right choice in choosing you as my taxidermist.



Thanks, You are very welcome, Shootaway. It was a pleasure doing the work for you.

RREESE, I would never grind down or remove any horn material. To a certain degree, cape buffalo require some rebuilding of the boss or the skin/horn juncture. This is because the soft tissue of the growing horn is boiled or has shrunk away, leaving a gap between the hard horn and the skin. So, some material is re-created but no horn is ever taken away. I do my best to try and get the buffalo to look the way it was, not building the boss up too much, and certainly never taking any away. Eeker

Thanks to everyone for the comments.


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Posts: 1378 | Location: Virginia, USA | Registered: 05 March 2005Reply With Quote
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Great work-thank's for sharing.


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Wonderful work!
 
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Beautiful...you are truly an artist !!!
 
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Painting and Buff , Just Awesome !
Great Job !!!


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Nice work Grafton! But I'm curious, did you grind the bosses down for artistic purposes or were they already small and narrow?


Well aren't you just a prince of a guy --- and I'm guessing sexually challenged at that!


OMG!-- my bow is "pull-push feed" - how dreadfully embarrasing!!!!!
 
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