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Need some help braintanning

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Hillbilly:
Hair-on braintan is harder than hair-off, but it'll work-Wade (N2everything) braintanned a hair-on buffalo a couple years ago. You'll probably have to rebrain several times. Get the flesh side free of membrane and stretched good, then put the brain solution on, work it in, scrape it off, and repeat. You need to get it completely soaked through the hide. The neck and rump areas are thick and hard to get good brain penetration. Be careful about getting and leaving it too wet as it'll make the hair slip. As Barrage said, there is some good info at Matt Richard's braintan site.

mullet:
 You can leave the hair on and scrape it like you would rawhide and let it dry. Then rub Neet's feet oil into it and make a quiver. I've done it twice and the hair will wear off before it pulls out.

Also, if you are egg tanning, do you seperate the white from the yellow yolk? I've got a deer scrotom I want to make a soft, bullet pouch out of. :)

HoBow:
Come on Eddie- you're yanking our chain ;-)

mullet:
NOPE! ;D I've used them a lot for gear shift knobs. ;)

Hillbilly:
Eddie, i got one that I was thinking the same exact thing about. great minds think alike. ;D

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