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Deer hockskins
primitivepaulette:
--- Quote from: HoBow on January 16, 2013, 07:15:11 pm ---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.
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HoBow.. yes you can definitely just leave them as rawhide.. just dampen and stitch with a cape needle that the taxidermists use and you can stitch them up to leather skin pretty quickly. I just have to go the whole nine yards just because I can or it's a challenge or because it's more bug resistant tanned or something.. I don't know! I like to experiment with all these leather stuff and I certainly am just back a novice myself.. just scratching the surface. I guess this is what fascinates me so much about the animal skins is because you realize that you can create so much with this and there ARE so many ways to use the skins raw and even the tanning. Like the deerskin with the grainy surface..well like any leathery skin like it.. one an tan it mushy or tan it to where it has some heft or 'handle' I like to call it.. so I'm really just barely learning how to get JUST the exact leather I want. I think that too is why I don't brain tan all the fur skins. some of the skins I'm tanning with fur on I certainly don't want them to feel like hair on leather! I look forward to seeing others hockskin bags.. gives me ideas!
YosemiteBen:
a friend of mone just got a four hock skin bag made from caribou. She calls it the "udder" bag. it has a soft leather top with a draw string.
primitivepaulette:
That's cute.. udder kind of a bag! ;D I really should dig out that buffalo leg skin and try and get it soft.. no time like the present.. so cold here.. all there is to do is hug the woodstove! Plenty of hot coals to use to presmoke and smoke and all. Just need to add some motivation is all!!
blackhawk:
Those are unique n cool.... :)
Got a silly question for ya.....about 12-13 years ago when I was living in mt pleasant I knew a gal named Paulette who attended cmu and,and went to "his house"(christain fellowship at the school)...and it wouldn't surprise me if she was into this kind of thing..and I have only met one gal in my life named Paulette....jus curious..you wouldn't be the same person....jus asking on a whim.
primitivepaulette:
Thanks blackhawk.
No sorry, it wasn't me.. I live a little ways north of Sterling. I've only heard of a few by my name.. only ran across one other.. lol. It is a rare name. My dad's name was Paul :laugh:
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