u/ekobot

Been steadily working my way through assembling this lil guy, thought others might be interested ✌️

I only have pretty basic anatomical knowledge, and have struggled finding good reference images (especially for all the teensie paw bones!), so I've been using a lot of trial and error to puzzle things together. Thankfully I like puzzles and have strong spatial reasoning skills :P

Happy to take pictures of any specific parts if it'll help someone else with their puzzle. I've been taking a lot of reference photos that I'll eventually put up somewhere, but for now haven't been bothering to crop and reduce for sizes for extra pictures 🤷

A raccoon I found road-side this spring. The rest of his bones (and hopefully those two missing teeth!) are in the degreaser now. I pulled the skull out of maceration early as it was looking clean, and I was excited. Very pleased with how it has turned out, and look forward to comparing it to the female raccoon skull I have in the degreaser, too!

Found this guy on the side of the road in the spring. Despite the massive trauma from a car, he was still in quite good shape (but the smelliest I've picked up so far!).

Just got the skeleton pulled out of degreasing yesterday, working on piecing him back together now. The skull was in many pieces, and some seem to have been lost in the process, but the majority is still there.

I'm not looking forward to figuring out all those little paw bones, though 😵‍💫

I don't usually find anything particularly interesting, mostly just old vapes for battery recovery, the occasional smashed to shit phone I pull polarization film out of for art projects. Or stuff that's so weathered it's hardly recognizable. But this week I've found some interesting things.

The digital recording mixer I found in the woods near my house while looking for moss. The disc drive has been burned, but I brought it home to salvage some neat knobs and such.

Then today I found a stack of laptops in a dumpster while waiting for a cab. Also in rough shape, but will be fun to take apart.

Figured I watch stuff here often enough it would be rude not to try and contribute ✌️

Shared this in /r/vultureculture, but since I am asking for some advice/reccomendedations on similar makers I thought it would be useful to share here as well

Bones were found on the beach while camping, not sure what everything is. The chain and plastic pink beads came from a broken rosary IIRC, the other beads are glass. Had to make a number of custom jump rings/wire connectors for this one as well.

Other than modeling for photos this piece has only been worn once, by a partner of mine... It's not exactly every day wear, after all! It's a shame that it lives basically permanently in storage, so I've considered selling it. However it's so outside my normal kinds of make that I haven't gotten around to figuring out what kind of pricing would be reasonable.

Anyone here have experience/advice around that? Anyone reputable you know who sells jewelery with ethical bones that I could look into for comparison?

Was reminded of this piece I made a year or two ago, so took some new photos to share!

Bones were found on the beach while camping, not sure what everything is. The chain and plastic pink beads came from a broken rosary IIRC, the other beads are glass. Had to make a number of custom jump rings/wire connectors for this one as well.

Other than modeling for photos this piece has only been worn once, by a partner of mine... It's not exactly every day wear, after all! It's a shame that it lives basically permanently in storage, so I've considered selling it. However it's so outside my normal kinds of make that I haven't gotten around to figuring out what kind of pricing would be reasonable. Anyone here have experience/advice around that? Anyone reputable you know who sells jewelery with ethical bones that I could look into for comparison?

The first animal I fully broke down was a young rabbit that died by getting stuck in chicken wire I had protecting my garden. I felt so bad about it that I knew I needed to honour it somehow, so it became the real kicking off point of this hobby for me.

I have its other bones and tanned hide in my box of "bits", but I made its skull into this suncatcher ornament that lives on my wall above my computer where I can see it every day.

Was asked for a picture, realised I've never shared any of my collection here, so pulled up some photos.

Jasper was my first ever attempt at mounting an animal. Prior to that I had only skinned and boned a young rabbit, and helped a friend macerate some bird bones years prior.

He's a bit skrunkly(partially due to lack of skill, partially due to him moving house in a chaotic way), and definitely under stuffed, but I am still very proud of how he came out.

Pictures 1&2: his original perch when first finished, and a picture of him today

3&4: before pictures showing the condition I found him in

5: pinned and drying before I decided what I was doing

6&7: during the stuffing & testing out an eye