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El Destructo:

--- Quote from: deersled on March 02, 2009, 11:31:29 pm ---will a metal cable do the same thing?

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Yes it will...find a place that you can stretch it out tight....and start to draggin that Hide across it till it softens up nice...

billy:
deer sled,

I once tried eggs on a deer skin and had the same result...stiff kinda like paper.  I don't know why, but it never ever softened up well.  I use brains exclusively now, but then maybe I didn't do the "egging" correctly.  By the way, that Deerskins into Buckskins is a great book. 

jamie:
bill how many eggs did ya use for what size hide?

deersled:
I used 12 eggs for 2 gallons of water, I believe? Small to medium sized whitetail hide. The cable and board have softened it up some. The thicker areas are just not soft enough. Think I need to get it wet again (re-egg) and attempt to dry it on the cable this time. Working a dry hide on a cable or board is extremely difficult. I haven't smoked it yet. Will smoking do anything to soften it up?

jamie:
if you redo it and it is still stiff , sand the area that is stiff to open up the fibers better. you can also scrape the stiff area so it is thinner.

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