Slide of the Month: A Crow's Skull

 

July 2025

Time to make: 2 hours

Finishing: 1 hour

 
Source: Indian and Camp Handicraft

by W. Ben Hunt

Page 62

Original design:  Ben Hunt

Update: Bill Macfarlane

3D file: Crow Skull by Meligati on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4121798

Ben Hunt (Whittlin Jim) made a lot of slides and not all of them were in Boy's Life. This slide was in one of the many books he wrote and during the coming months I plan to track as many down as I can.

The original design called for a real crow's skull but I don't see many dead crows around area and the thoughts of cleaning a real skull is not on my list of must do's. Enter a 3D printer and the file listed above.  

Using white PLA filament,  I printed the skull and then carved away the inner walls of the eye socket like Ben's article instructed. I then painted the skull using paint pens.