For a beginning taxidermist what do you think are some good essentials for a beginner’s toolkit? Like what knives do you recomment for someone who wants to keep bones and skins? Types of bags to keep around? Anything like that?

blackbackedjackal:

Roadkill Collection/Scavenging:

• Gloves
• Plastic Bags for small animals (I just save my grocery bags)
• Heavy duty trash bags for bigger/heavier animals
• A tarp for your trunk
• A decent knife set for removing parts of animals
• Knife sharpener
• Hedge clippers for cutting tails or feet off
• A good pair of boots and long pants 
• A reflective jacket
• Hand saw

Skinning/Fleshing/Salting: 

• Plastic apron
• Scalpel & blades
• Stop rot
• Spoon (you can use it to flesh smaller animals)
• Hand fleshing tool
• Towels (makes clean up way easier)
• Salt
• Gloves!

Tanning:

• 10 Gallon Bucket
• Salt
• Measuring cup
• Gloves..
• See TruBond for full list of chemicals needed for tanning

Bones:

• Tubaware, can be used for maceration/oxidation/degreasing/whitening
• Tooth brushes (for scrubbing nature cleaned bones)
• Rot Pots
• Steralite/Lock-tite bins for low-smell maceration
• Tank heaters (for heated maceration)
• Dish soap
• Crockpot
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Arm length gloves for shifting through large maceration tubs
• Spade (digging through rot pots)
• …Gloves…

Wet Preserves:

• Glass jars
• Formalin
• 70% Isopropyl Alcohol
• Syringes
• Gloves from glove world

Dry Preserves:

• Salt/Borax
• 91% Isopropyl Alcohol 
• Tubaware
• Guantes (that’s Spanish, for gloves)

Jackal’s Closet of Vulture Magic:

PHEW, ok long list but that’s pretty much everything that like to have at all times depending on what I’m processing and how I decide to process it c:! The more/better tools and supplies you have the more options you have for salvaging as much of the animals you get as you can ;o;! I also suggest buying things like salt, gloves, and peroxide in bulk since you’ll p much always need thing like that, and pick up items though necessity as you go! I hope this helps c: