Im brain tanning a buffalo hide. pics up!

[sleek]

Anybody know anything about cleaning the fur and getting the matts out?

[Lumberman]

Sew up after; I suppose you'd be against using dawn dish soap to get the mats out? Lol works great on bears, don't want to see the hair too well! Bear and buff both are okay to leave a bit thicker than what one would be used to with deer

[sleek]

Hey, if you saw dawn works I will give it a go. Next step is taking it to the car wash and use their high water pressure and soap.

[sleek]

So i have it fleshed and thinned. Any clue how many eggs are needed?

[Redhand]

I have used about a dozen eggs for tanning a deer hide and that works good for me.

[Knoll]

Seriously, bud. Ya need to post some pictures. Seriously!   

[sleek]

Seriously, bud. Ya need to post some pictures. Seriously!   

Ohhhh Patrick!!!!!!!

[tipi stuff]

I agree with Lumber, in regard to the Dawn dish detergent.

[sleek]

Im going with 6 dozen egg yokes. I reckon 3x3 is what a deer skin measures to. It takes 12 eggs. My bison is 10x10 3 times bigger and twice as thick. So that makes 6 times as many eggs. I hope this works. I see lots of egg white omelets, meringue cookies, and angle food cakes in my future.

[lebhuntfish]

Well sleek is having trouble with uploading pictures. So he sent me some and asked me to post them for him. Frankly I'm slightly jealous, now I want one!
Patrick

[TimBo]

That's awesome.  I have done enough braintanning of deer hides that my arms hurt just thinking about this.  That should be enough eggs - you just need them to completely saturate every pore of the hide.  At least that's how it is for buckskin, but I haven't done any hides with the hair on. 

[sleek]

Thanks Patrick. My wife is installing a new motherboard in my old phone thats linked to my photobucket so maybe today this will be fixed.


So, the top two pics are afyer some fleshing has been done. That hide was heavy and poorly removed. I counted 14 holes. But i will learn from this one and my next will be better. Also i wont mind using this one for camping and shch because its not as high quality. So really its good to have something thats not too purty to get dirty.

[sleek]

The second third and 4th show fleshing it down until the veins are visible. Third and 4th focusing more on what it looks like after some thinning. Notice the black lines you see from the hair on the other side.

[sleek]

The pic with the knife and deer bone show an attempt at using a bone. Nope.

The knife is perfect. I forged that knife from my last pair of combat boots once i wore them slap out. I couldnt stand to toss them, they took me around the world. So i used the steel toe and made a blade. I love this knife. Even skinned my first bow kill with it. I used it to do tje rest of the job.

[Zuma]

Wow thanks for posting the photos guys
They really are a good way of showing how much
effort you are putting into. the project.
Zuma
Oh btw when you are camping out in the snow on a cold night,
the holes in that hide will matter not.
Zuma