Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

what are you planning on mounting the cross on? Looks good by the way.
 
I suppose I could see that based on the specimen you’re working with.
 
A while ago, I shot a doe and my wife asked if I could do a Euro mount of the Doe's skull. I assured her that I could and she said that she wanted to have it on display in her high school biology classroom.

I got the skull cleaned, but then I lost sight of the project for a while, partly due to other things going on and partly due to me being nervous about trying to build the glass box.

I decided it was time and I put it all together. It wasn't very hard, but I was nerve wracking. I like how it turned out and I will probably do more things ike this in the future.

On the upside, all of the wood was scrap from other projects I have done in the past.IMG_6769.jpeg
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Many years ago, my dad told me he was going to have to cut down a tree at the family farm because it was going to block the lane. I wanted a new fireplace mantel, so I asked him to take the trunk to a local sawmill and get a 3"-ish thick beam out of it.

He did a great job and handed it over relatively quickly. I let it dry in my shed for about a decade before I finally flattened it and filled all the cracks and voids. And then it sat on my work bench for 6 months or so before I finally mounted it above the fireplace.

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I'm so happy to finally get this done and now I have a workbench that I can see the top of again.
 

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