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primitivepaulette:
This is a project in the works.. I found some red wool AFTER I dyed the welt with a not so permanent marker!

Well anyway I really need to get a flap and liner and closure added AND extend the straps! Guess it's time to GET OFF the PC.. and get some sleep.. and wake up and FINISH this project!

chamookman:
Be sure to post some pics of the finneshed bag - that's cool ! Bob

Outbackbob48:
That is one of the nicest pouchs that i have seen, Do you have beaver tail on both sides? I really like that one an to think I gave 45 tails away last year.  Bob

primitivepaulette:
Thanks.. I did the fleshing not so primitively on this. Same with the coyote.. but I guess when you figure out how easiest to do this you vie for that rather than to kill yourself well, let's just say that if I HAD to do it primitively.. I would know what needed to be done. like using a wahinkta.. I think I could just keep scraping away until the skin is thin as you can see the scales on the flesh side.. bumpy like, y/k? Guy that trapped the big beaver below the pouch was telling me that I might wake up to a box of the tails on my porch.. boy would that be nice.. lol.. well anyway I pickled these tail skins in citric acid and while the skin was drying out I kept bending it so that it won't BREAK.. I have worked them a lot softer..but scales came off the one I did like that and ended up PAINTING the brown color.. someone told me that I could put some stuff from tandy's on it to help it stay pliable rawhide.. I have it soaking in a glass of water.. lol. to soften up the top of it to sew in the liner.. it was just too tough to stitch.. I plan to line it with cotton and add a flap to it. I was thinking to just heat up a needle and bore holes in the skin to make stitching anything into the rawhide easier..so.. hmm? I'm just playing around with it.. learning mostly..
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v117/1braintanner/beavertail%20pouch/ 
I have 15 more pics on my photobucket page for the beaver tail pouch.   

I used an electric fleshing machine and then a bench grinder to get what I was afraid I'd cut my fingertip skin if I kept on going with the that fleshing wheel blade. It's been fun learning on it anyway.. thanks for the comments.

bowtarist:
 8) I like that. dpg

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