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Updated: May 22, 2025
Run tail-wire base forward through its pelvis-wire loop and twist it around body-wire. Before filling the body, sew up the tail, using short stitches and a round needle, if it is possible to push it through skin easily. Begin sewing at tip and work toward body. Finish all sewing with a simple knot drawn tight under tip of finger.
Consult sketch and bend a right angle in foreleg-wire back of shoulder at such a point that shoulder will set in proper relation to head. One at a time, using the pliers, twist these foreleg-wire ends, after setting them through shoulder loop, tightly back along the body-wire. Next insert the hind legs into the skin.
Slip their wires through hip loops, carry them forward, and tightly twist them around body-wire as in forelegs. If the tail skin was unopened except at tip the wrapped tail should be put in when the head is placed in the skin. If tail skin was opened full length, the artificial tail may be placed after all the legs are adjusted.
If a specimen is bloody or mussed the blood may be cleaned off before skinning by wetting the spots with alcohol and rubbing the blood and juices out with cornmeal. The first step in mounting is properly to wire the skull and leg bones. For the body-wire select a size larger than for the legs, cutting it twice as long as head, neck, and body.
For legs choose a size wire that will firmly support the specimen in position without wobbling. If the mammal is to sit erect, the hind leg-wires must be considerably larger than otherwise and foreleg-wires may be much lighter. The first body-wire loop is bent to set into the brain cavity.
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