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How do you water proof raw hide?

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skyarrow:

--- Quote from: jamie on September 12, 2010, 08:46:23 am ---Smoking does not waterproof, it preserves material and prevents it from returning to its natural state. A tanned hide that has been properly smoked can get wet and will soften up easily when it dries. If it wasn't smoked it would return to rawhhide when it dried . Rawhide itself will benefit from smoke by not rotting and it helps to keep the bugs away but it won't b waterproof. Like I said though it takes a lot of moisture to soften rawhide back up. A good idea may b to make a form that you can slip the quiver over so that when it does get wet it doesn't dry badly and remains it shape. Peace

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thanx for the facts now i know what it does  ;D

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