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stinking buckskin
deersled:
my wife just hit the nail on the head.......cod liver oil! I probably had em in the brains too long. Its been so stinking cold they sat in the brains in the garage in a cooler for 5-6 days. Let you know what happens when I smoke em. Hides turned out very nice though.
leapingbare:
I have left a hide in the brains in cool weather for over a week and it terned out just fine. If you pre-smoke your hides and put a smoked hide into your slurry it will last over a month and you can leave hides in it for over a week.
Is this the 1st time you have done braintan. A unsmoked hide has a oder it sorta smells like deer hide and brains ;) I love the smell of braintan if it came in a bottle i would spry it on my girl friend. But after you smoke it, it will just smell smoky.
mullet:
Jesse, I see a Romantic Night in the makin', :) Save up all the brains, warm em up and fill a Bath tub full. Candles, Barry Manilow playing in the background, a nice bottle of wine, and you'd be all set, Bud. ;D O:)
leapingbare:
::)
hedgeapple:
Deersled, are you sure you scraped the inside of the hide well, removing all the membrane? Did you grain the hide, scraping all the outer membrane off the hair side of the hide? Last summer, I was working on 5 hides at a time. I picked 2 of the better ones to egg tan. One turned out well. The first one turned out well. The second, I got busy and ended up taking it on a camping trip with me wife and 6 other friend. Well, it smelled like bloated road kill at our campsite. In my haste, I forgot to do the final scraping/grain. PEWWEE!
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