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green deer hides galore!
riarcher:
Tried a gardening center? Agway?
http://www.google.com/products?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GFRE_enUS321US321&q=aluminum+sulfate+gardening&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=-e12S6eEN5OXtgfmvemYCg&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQrQQwAg
Probably don't need alum Sulf. anymore anyways. Maybe for ref.?
Josh:
thanks for the link... I have them all fleshed, dried, and rolled up waiting for the time to tan later. I kinda got sidetracked with making bows but I will get back to them soon. Thanks again! :) -josh
aero86:
Wow! Nice haul! Sure would be nice if you were trading for that stuff. A hide would be nice, but people keep telling me I need to use real sinew on my arrows. Care to part with any in a trade? ;D
HatchA:
Nice work Josh. I was given 19 skins before Christmas (which was entirely too many for me to cope with and will have to throw out because I didn't have a clue what to do at the time) and another 6 a couple of weeks back. I'm also curing a skin for hair-on tanning - it's a cross between a sika and a red deer, a lovely colour hair. I've also got a couple tanning in bark water at the moment too. Need to add some more solution to the mixture. It's interesting work but thoroughly enjoyable!
Do you salt before you flesh? I fleshed first, then rubbed the salt into the membrane surface. That hide is currently hanging in my shed, hopefully drying out after being salted for a week. Then I'll rehydrate and scrape off the membrane. Kinda lost as to what to do then :)
Any chance of a link to Jeff's tan-along please? ***EDIT*** found it myself :)
Looking forward to seeing how yours come out! You mention you're going to egg-tan them. Are you going to slosh them about in an egg & water solution or will you paste it on the flesh side? I imagine the egg would make a mess in the hair :-\
Josh:
aero86: Can't really part with any as I had to split them with my buddy Snakeman we only have 4 apeice... :( I definitely would if I had more. I havent started tanning any of them yet, they are just dry scraped with hair on rolled up with salt right now, seems to be pretty stable... :)
HatchA: I left them with hair on salted the flesh side for two days then dry scraped all the meat/fat off them. Resalted them and rolled them up to save for later. With egg tanning I think you just rub the egg in and work the hide as it dries to make it soft. I think you do it a few times, I really need to read more about it myself before I do it that is one of the reasons i haven't gone farther with them yet. Good luck on yours! :)
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