try asking your local taxidermist
or
try this online supplier of "Jawsets" (the term for this kind of form)
 
http://www.vandykestaxidermy.com/category/jawsets
 
Barbara Hass, retired librarian
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/8/2010 4:08:20 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
Relaying a request from a local nature educator, can any of you mountmakers out there point me to resources on designing and building skull mounts that allow the jaw to be opened and closed? We're looking at a range of mammal skull replicas from a skunk to a grizzly bear.

Thanks in advance,

Kenneth A MacLennan
Curator, Museum on Main
Pleasanton, CA
www.museumonmain.org

"Feelings are indispensable to man, but they become terrible the moment they see themselves as values, as criteria of truth, as justifications for behavior."
--Milan Kundera, Jacques and His Master (1981), Introduction (tr. Simon Callow, 1985)


     

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