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MWirwicki:
Wow Paulette! Those are really cool! So are you saying that you clean (flesh) the hides with a pressure washer? If so, do you have to scrap afterwards?

HoBow:
Very nice job. I have about 30 of them that I wanted to make a bag with or something. They are just rawhide now and I was planning on leaving them that way so they will be a little stiff.

primitivepaulette:

--- Quote from: Patches on January 16, 2013, 03:08:57 pm --- I like your work! I did not realize anything could be done with the skin from the legs until about a month ago when I seen a photo of a bag like the one in your last photo. Last year I skinned out over 100 legs getting the sinew, and just threw the skin away. I could kick myself now but I did know any better then. Keep posting the cool work!

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Thanks. Um.. feeling a little foolish here because I have been skinning LOTS of legs and pitching all the tendons away! Really I would like to learn something new some day and although I am not YET an archer.. there is possibly some hope! I had a pretty cool bow gifted to me by a fellow Hoodlum and one of my sons pulled it passed it's point. and so it's more of an ornament now than a useful tool :'(.. I'm glad you enjoy the pics of my work.

primitivepaulette:

--- Quote from: MWirwicki on January 16, 2013, 04:03:58 pm ---Wow Paulette! Those are really cool! So are you saying that you clean (flesh) the hides with a pressure washer? If so, do you have to scrap afterwards?

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thank you. : - ) exactly! I use a pressure washer to flesh every skin I work on, now! kind of addicted to it! I didn't start out that way though.. certain things led me to using them! Bear and raccoons! it wasn't long at all before I was using them on absolutely EVERYTHING! and let me tell you.. it is really messy.. but I like the fact that I don't have to scrape by hand the flesh sides.. and they're pretty gentle on the fur sides by both using it on the flesh sides and then the fur sides.. I'm a Piscean though and I've been playing in water puddles and I grew up on a large river downstate MI.. lol.. so I these are a couple of the things I think about when I'm getting myself WET in the process of handling the skins.. hahaha.. I grossed out these ladies at the middle school office today.. just talking about skinning and fleshing dead coyotes.. the principle recognized me as a 'tanner' guess he hunts with the local coyote tanners and so he just HAD to come out of his office and ASK ME if I'm getting lots of coyotes to do yet.. So I told him to google Coyote Drape hat and so he went back in his office and got on the net.. ha.. So I got to point out my coyote hats and found a bunch that I did on the top row.. so he had so the secretaries at the school.. I was so proud.. my poor daughter though! she has to have these ladies looking at her funny.. like your mom is DISGUSTING!.. I told the ladies that I didn't have to handle these nasty things because I just use the pressure washer.. which is true! and then I went on to say that they're so beautiful when they're done. I think they are anyway.. hahaha.. I have been known to toss them in my front loading washer to spin the water out of them and well I guess I'm kind of the rare woman.. My husband doesn't mind providing I wash my clothes before he washes his own first.. sigh.. ::)

sorry for the long ramble! rant kinda! no.. I don't have to scrape them afterwards as the washer just removes all of the membrane.. Might result in a denser product.. I kinda like the fluff BUT.. if you keep most of the membrane say on a deerhide that stuff can follow you everywhere!

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