Baking wood from outside?

[Eric Walker]

I live right on the mississippi flood plain and every year I go out after the water recedes
and find all sorts of nice wood. I even cut up root systems off of trees that are uprooted. I bake mine closer to 300 and keep a good eye on it so it doesn't catch fire.

as for the deer, are you talking about the skull. I had a snake viv quite some time back that I used a deer skull in. it was in with a corn snake. I went to the extreem with boiling it and bleaching it. then boiling it again and again. looked great and she even like to "try" and fit inside it. snake did fine and is even still alive and looks great at a friends house. I really wish I had some pictures from that one because it looked incredable