Cleaning a Skull:

My way is pretty cheap but it takes some time. Starts with skinning and taking off as much meat as you can, eyes, lower jaw everything you can get off the bone take it off now, I use a dull knife, a sharp knife, screw drivers, pliers, steel brush, and a flexable paint scraper. Get a big pot of water and Dawn dish soap boiling on a turkey fryer, make sure there is enough water to cover the skull water on the antler bases right now isnt a big deal. Cook the skull for 15 or so minutes after the water starts to boil. Clean as much off again as you can, stick a screw driver in and scramble the brain you can drill another hole in the skull to help get brain matter out. I scramble the sinus also and break the inner nose bones, thats the much work for me to keep them nice and get the crap out of there. Boil it and clean meat off 3 or 4 times.

Once you have as much off as you can get some Hydorgen Peroxide, I used the cheap stuff from Walmart, 98 cents for 32 oz, I bought $10 worth, get enough to fill your pot. Before you start boiling the skull in the H2o2 I wrapped the antlers up to the brow tines in aluminum foil and taped the bases of the antlers off. Get the h2o2 boiling and cook and clean the skull until it is clean of fat and meat. Once you are to the point of a clean skull, boil the skull for half an hour then shut the heat off and let the skull sit in there for a few minutes, take it out and wash it in soap and water again. If there is anything left meat/fat wise I pack the skull with Borax to dry everything out. Let it sit for a few days and blow it out with a air compressor.

Here is my 9 point Whitetail and an Antelope for my uncle. The antelope was left with the hide on it for a year or so and the skull got stained, couldnt get it out.