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BowEd:
Well it's been pleasantly warm here lately and thought I'd take the opportunity to prep ready this buck hide for brain tanning.Drying in the sun here after fleshing.A fleshing blade made for myself[heat treated disk blade] attached to an elk antler was used.A different like kind elk antler tool to be used for dry scrape dehairing later.I can't remember doing a whitetail quite this big.Inside approximate measurements of frame is 6.5' tall by 5.5' wide and made of 2" by 6"s.Which to my estimation makes this hide close to 22 square feet.Of which after roping dry and smoking it'll be around 13 to 15 square feet brain tan hide.It'll shrink from roping dry by anywhere from 25 to 30 percent but be pretty thick.Here's a pic.

Seems like for me yearling deer are for bow rawhide backing/cow hides for rawhide quivers and equipment/and every sized deer inbetween are for brain tan.Clothes and bags and such.Here's the thread of the deer harvested....http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,54877.0.html

Zuma:
Wow that is a nice big hide 8)
Keep us posted with your progress.
Zuma

BowEd:
It'll be a bit to get done.Got a few other things to do too.Normally a hide takes around 8 hours of actual work to finish but this one may take a few hours more I'll see.Days are wasted waiting for things to dry properly to continue too.

Outbackbob48:
Beadman, nice stretch job, looks real square. bob

bjrogg:
You really got it together there Beadman really nice job on the stretcher.

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