I have a skull that I want to get cleaned up & painted.
I started by placing the skull in our composter. The bugs took care of almost all the meat.
Then I did sort of a "European" method. I used a high pressure burner and boiled the skull (with a scoop of Oxyclean) in a metal garbage twice for 30-45 minutes. I hosed it off in between and used misc tools/brushes to get every last bit of visible debris.
Then I soaked it in a 1/20 solution of bleach water for 30 minutes.
I did not use the 40% hydrogen peroxide for whitening because I plan on painting it.
Its been drying for two days and it still smells pretty strong. I cannot find any muscle/debris/tissue anywhere, it looks perfectly clean.
So whats the deal? Does it just need to dry longer? Sit in the sun a bit? Another stronger bleach soak?
Any tips would be appreciated.
I started by placing the skull in our composter. The bugs took care of almost all the meat.
Then I did sort of a "European" method. I used a high pressure burner and boiled the skull (with a scoop of Oxyclean) in a metal garbage twice for 30-45 minutes. I hosed it off in between and used misc tools/brushes to get every last bit of visible debris.
Then I soaked it in a 1/20 solution of bleach water for 30 minutes.
I did not use the 40% hydrogen peroxide for whitening because I plan on painting it.
Its been drying for two days and it still smells pretty strong. I cannot find any muscle/debris/tissue anywhere, it looks perfectly clean.
So whats the deal? Does it just need to dry longer? Sit in the sun a bit? Another stronger bleach soak?
Any tips would be appreciated.