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2.0 out of 5 stars
Too lightweight for the comprehensive beginner's book.,
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This review is from: Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning (Paperback)
While this book covers a lot of territory in only 160 pages, too often the author simply says for the beginner to do something with inadequate, or no, instructions. After buying this book I'm now looking for another, more textbookish book on the subject. Before passing up this book, consider that it has been around since 1969, and survived 29 printings. Also, it is one of the very few books that Amazon has in print on this subject.
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The true pelt-maker's compendium,
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The word "taxidermy" derives from two Latin terms that combine to mean something like "the ordering of skins"--as in, "to place IN order," not "to place AN order," as one might do when one wants, say, a pizza.
I highlight this distinction because my friend Neil, a remarkable hunter in his own right, recently used an inferior book on the subject of taxidermy to stuff and mount a pizza on the mantle above his fireplace. While in this particular case the mounted pizza suited the decor well (Neil's home subscribes to a kind of rustic Italian aesthetic that leans heavily on the pepperoni motif), I suspect that most aspiring taxidermists are more interested in mounting more traditional game animals such as the Kodiak bear, the bison, and the Wisconsin housecat, all of which are covered in exquisite detail by Grantz's landmark text.
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THE FOREMOST CONSIDeration when starting taxidermy is finding a suitable place to do the work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ear liners, fleshing beam, fish mounting, taxidermist supplies, warm sawdust, most taxidermists, artificial skull, powdered borax, skin mounts, borax water, tail quills, paris mold, tanning solution, leg wires, body wire, white shellac, accompanying sketch, flesh side, laminated paper, mounting method, lip skin, supply dealers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THE FOREMOST CONSIDeration when starting taxidermy is finding a suitable place to do the work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ear liners, fleshing beam, fish mounting, taxidermist supplies, warm sawdust, most taxidermists, artificial skull, powdered borax, skin mounts, borax water, tail quills, paris mold, tanning solution, leg wires, body wire, white shellac, accompanying sketch, flesh side, laminated paper, mounting method, lip skin, supply dealers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Taxidermy Tanning New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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