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I have talked to several of you guys over the last while about using ear liners vs. bondo on commercial mounts. There is absolutely no doubt with the products available today that we can achieve a much nicer and more anatomically correct ear and ear butt with earliners. I just read Gene’s article that was posted on the site and got me to wondering about offering customers different options at different prices. I know I have talked to some that have went up to offset the cost and time involved. Of course at the price of bondo today there is probably not a great amount of difference in price. Just want to get some opinions.
Earliners on all mounts that they are available for. I do use Bondo on some mounts though some small game and African. As far as offering options I wouldn’t . They get what I give them No options on eye brands, hide paste type, earliners, Bondo ears, tannery, nothing . They get to pick pose , ear direction ( forward,back etc. ) and payment type check, money order, cash.
Some customers have a hard enough time just picking a pose.
x2 they r paying for ur services as an artist, most prolly wont mind how u do that as long as it looks like the animal they harvested and that the mount is durable…. also, how many of ur customers would need clarification between the two, i’d would venture a guess that most of them would…
Some customers have a hard enough time just picking a pose.
X2:idea:
The only option I give them besides pose is a hurry up fee If they pay that they get their mount back quicker…DC
A good bondo ear is way stronger than the liners. When we say bondo it really is not that much bondo. mostly resin (unwaxed) a touch of bondo and then chopped fiberglass matting.
Earliners just for the convenience, I have only used bondo on one deer, and I will never do it again, the ear came out okay, but it was too much work. I did it just to see what it was like, and to learn what exactly I am competing against. With earliners just slide them in and your done, only instead of fighting anything your already done and moving on to something else.
Besides I have yet to see what most of these people say is a good bondo ear, actually look like a deers cartilage ear. Earliners I see it every time. I’m not saying that an anatomically accurate bondo ear isn’t out there its just that in all the shows I go to (14 a year) I haven’t witnessed a good bondo ear yet.
But I am biased too so never mind me, LOL.
Rudy Eppley wrote: …in all the shows I go to (14 a year) I haven’t witnessed a good bondo ear yet.
How would you know? If it was a good Bondo ear, you probably thought it was a liner.
I don’t see how anyone can maintain consistency with bondo ears on a WT Deer. I bondo certain ears…bear, boar, exotic sheep…but I tried bondo deer ears years ago and the process to get a decent ear was too time consuming.
That’s my 2 cents on the subject and for those that like to bondo their deer ears I doubt it is worth that…LOL.
I have always used earliners. I tried bondo and resin one time ( to try to save a little money) and it just didn’t give me what I was looking for. I have friends that use bondo and say they get good results with it but for myself I just like earliners better;)
I use bondo and get good results, I use earliners and get great results. The question is how do you want your customers talking about your work, Good work or great work?
I use bondo and liners, depends on the critter. if Its a tanned hide it gets liners, if its DPed it gets bondo…DC
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i bondo nearly all except Kudu and Moose on commercial
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I use bondo-hair on all my mounts, Much stronger and thinner
tazzymoto wrote: I use bondo-hair on all my mounts, Much stronger and thinner
Bondo-hair is thinner than a quality earliner? :confused:
ok..maybe it’s overkill on my part…..maybe it’s just me….but I do both..sort of; I mix an amount of fiberglass resin without the chop..I pour this into the deer’s ear to act as a bonding agent for the ear liner I also use…but the reason I like to use the fiberglass resin is because I don’t feel the liners are exact enough to fill all of the voids in the opened ear and when the resin hardens I don’t have to worry about the edges “rolling” during or after drying….I know…bash me..but it works for me
I use liners. I just think they look better, and the fact Im terrible at the bondo method.
TAX-E-DERMIST wrote: Bondo-hair is thinner than a quality earliner? :confused:
Where do you see the word earliner?
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