Bare Bones Skullery

The studio handles big game, small game, livestock, exotics, and pet skulls, offering European mounts and detailed skull preservation.

You can choose custom mounting options such as pedestal bases and plaques in various wood finishes for a tailored display.

Owner Josh is an avid hunter and outdoorsman with years of skull-cleaning experience who continually researches new methods to improve his European mounts and displays.

They emphasize clean, anatomically accurate, odor-free results using museum-favored Dermestid beetle techniques and avoiding boiling to prevent damage.

Pricing is flat-rate by species and includes cleaning, degreasing, sealing, and whitening, with example rates such as about $110 for deer or antelope, $120 for bear, $150 for wild boar, $200–$250 for larger skulls, and around $50–$100 for small game and pets, plus optional surcharges for beetle cleaning, hide removal, rotten skulls, and lower jaws.

They highlight timely turnaround, with a strong beetle colony able to clean a deer skull in about five days and appointment-based drop-off and pickup, including text updates when your mount is ready.

Additional services include custom plaques and pedestal bases in wood finishes, car-side drop-off and pickup, and memorial skull work for pets, with attention to legal and ethical specimen handling.