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Beef hide and quivers/and other items made from it

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BowEd:
No matter what kind.All the different types of rawhide are very useful in projects.For knife sheaths though it needs to be mink oiled inside for steel unless you use a flint knife.

Zuma:
That's good info.
Thanks Beadman for taking the time. :)
I just gave a bear hide to a friend of mine.
He wants to make shoes. I know the bear
is not a bovine but it has a hide.  >:D
Zuma

BowEd:
Yep.Depends how big the bear was.I'd make knee high hair on winter mocs out of it myself or a least gaiters.Line it with a wool blanket.They say a woodchuck has the best rawhide for strings.Something about rodents.

BowEd:
The little characteristics of rawhide you find out from brain tanning them.Their all suited for paticular uses.I lived 45 years of my life right in the corner where the borders of Iowa,Minnesota,and South Dakota meet so I'm influenced a great deal by the plains Indian culture.It's all good.Last and only time I was at the Tennesee Classic I got a kick out of Pappy and another fella wearing their skin shirts to saturday night feed.Pretty cool.

Zuma:
I swear I have had more opportunity to
prepare myself or send hides out to be tanned.
We used to give all our groundhog/woodchuck
hides to the local fur buyer. He would have vest made
that looked just like gray fox. My daughter always
wanted to know the organs in the carcases I was
skinning. I do hope Matt leaves the bear hair on.
It is/was luxuriously appealing.
I think it's to late for me to turn an animal skin into a
utilitarian work of art. Sorry I missed that boat.
Perhaps in my next life.
Zuma

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