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BowEd:
Oh my God.....Say I don't trust someone elses' skinning.....lol, and my hired help to take care of my animals is gone while I'm gone.Is that a gaurantee you'll both do a hide or two in the future?I'll see what the boss says here once.

lebhuntfish:
I'll guarantee the only holes in the hides that I skinned are from bullets! Lol

I currently have about 8 or 9 hides I'm my freezer not counting the 2 opossums, 1 otter,  2 skunks a small wild boar and a hand full of snakes. I think it's about time to learn how to tan them.

Patrick

Pappy:
 Bullet or arrow Holes aren't the problem, it's the knife work some do while they are skinning. I usually won't take a hide someone else skinned unless I see they doing it. ;) :) If I plan on tanning a hide I never use a knife after the first cuts and at the end to cut it loose.  :) A hide tanned in a day is a very busy day for sure and the weather has to cooperate to boot. :)
 Pappy

Aaron H:
If you wanted to do a demonstration, I would guarantee I would be watching, if you didn't, I totally get it.  Sorry, I didn't mean to pressure you into anything.   :-\

BowEd:
Thought I was putting this show along thing on here so people could try to do it themselves.Free & easy.A demonstration like Pappy said is a weather related project,and I'm not excluding the invitation either.
I'm sure your skinning is good too Pat even though I did'nt see it done.
Way back 30 years ago when I caught the bug to tan hides the surrounding public would bring hides for me to do since I did them really cheap.I had to get an Iowa taxidermy license to accomodate all of the hides through the door.Not to mention the freezer space needed.I just wanted to tan my own hides.Not go into the business of it.Back then I was just tanning with aluminum sulfate/pickling salt/neats foot oil in the beginning and went to strictly brain tanning soon after,because I could keep dry rawhide around indefinitely to be worked later.
Once news gets around that you like to tan hides there will be yahoos showing up with illegally taken outlawed fur for you to tan.Letting you hold the illegally gotten fur or hide.Not a good idea.I'm sure I'm not the only one this has happened to.Send them way.I tell them I'm not your black market tanner here.....lol.
Now I know I mentioned money into the equation of brain tanning but that was just to try to inspire people to try it,but the real reason to tan is something I can't really explain.If it's in a person it is.Making something out of what most people like to think is nothing or too hard to do I guess.Along with the interest in the Indian way of life/fur handling/ buckskinning & bow & arrow projects of interest that relate to it.
I'll get to this big old buck in time here and show the way to make A1 first class brain tan out of it.Bend or bust and the easiest way I know.It takes a while to get the feel of things doing hides to get consistent success.Like I said maybe someone can comment a way to do it easier with the same quality.The more the merrrier.

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