A Year in the Life of a Taxidermist! *WEEK 3* September 23-27

[@MarkJLarsonOutdoors]

Always enjoy your videos my friend! Pretty awesome the way the ear bur tool worked! Thank you for sharing my friend!

[@ZachLosito]

Hey Daniel! I’m new in the taxidermy world and your videos have been an amazing help in making my dreams come true I have an apprenticeship in a taxidermy shop around the area I live and between him and your videos I’ve been able to learn so much I’m hoping to get a buck of my own to practice mounting this year and if all goes well I can start doing mounts for friends and family as well and who knows maybe I can be where you are one day that would be a dream come true!

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

Awesome! Keep grinding!

[@OakRidgeTaxidirmy.]

I was were you are two years ago with just a dream and now I have my own taxidermist shop called oakridge taxidermist and it is going well and I learned 80 percent of what I know from this channel he's amazing a lot of hard work and dedication and you will have your own business soon you can do it just keep working hard good luck and God bless

[@David73HardCorePa]

Awesome Daniel, Great informative video on ur friend website, definitely checking on sling,Thx !!

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

Thank you!

[@littlebitbabe196]

You are one of the best people to watch! I have learned so much from you and ready to tackle this season coming up. Do you have any storage videos? Like where you keep everything frozen until its turn. Or any system advice?

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

I’ll make a video on it next week 👍

[@NeonPossum]

Loving this series so much! Super interesting seeing what you do in a week. Do you think you'll ever work on animals other than deer? Or is that your focus? And if so, do you ever get bored?

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

No I just really love deer in general. Hunting them, drawing and painting them, and mounting them. I actually enjoy having a routine and an assembly line style setup because the simplicity keeps me open to hunt and fish when I want with very little changes in my routine 👍

[@NeonPossum]

@@thecedarridgechronicles I love how you do the assembly line setup, very productive! And that's amazing, I'd love to see your deer drawings and paintings someday. Keep it up dude, you're an inspiration :)

[@Ealum1013]

what's the best way to keep your pickle clean? mine ended up cloudy and "muddy" looking after 2 cows and a deer in it. The PH started climbing to 2 instead of 1.5 where it had been. I dumped it out and will start over next time.

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

The cleaner the hides are going in, the cleaner it will stay, but as it draws out the fluids from the hide they will contaminate the pickle no matter how clean the capes are on the outside and the thicker they are the worse it is. As a general rule if I have to add acid to a pickle, I always replace it once that batch of hides is finished.

[@keithstrine21]

What tan do u like to use ? Right now i use lutan fn. Was thinkin about trying the pro1 brush on tan to shorten the process a little bit

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

I use Pro 1 brush on

[@thegeneral1100]

Do you take a dated picture of the customer holding their deer rack, just in case the customer picking up his deer head says “that’s not my deer, mine was bigger than that.”? Just a good CYA policy.

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

I but they are assigned a number and watch me put the number on the rack. With social media these days it is really hard to get away with that because nearly everyone has a pic online. Still not a bad idea though.

[@Brian-bf6yz]

What form is that full upright left turn by the entrance to your shop 9700?

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

The one right next to the door is a Mears SSL

[@JB-JB-JB-JB]

Daniel, do you offer apprenticeship or grunt work for people (me) that could work for knowledge only? Let me know and I’d be honored to come in for an interview.

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

I sure don’t, but maybe eventually

[@JB-JB-JB-JB]

Yes sir, I appreciate tour response and understand completely. Put me on that list when it comes to fruition. I won’t let you down. Thanks again and keep up the fantastic work.