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hide tanning advice
bjrogg:
Yes Ed, I followed your tan along with from beginning to end. I can see you know what your doing and have been doing it for along time. I also really like the projects I've seen made from them by you and several others on this site.
Pappy I understand that what I'm making is hair on rawhide. I have tanned a few fox myself with mixed results. I have put up thousands of muskrat hides and hundreds of fox, coyote, raccoon and mink. I have taken some to a taxidermist buddy of mine skinned, scraped and ready for him to chemically tan. I get them back from him fresh out of the vat. I usually just make wall hangers out of them so I put them back on stretchers to shape the heads and ears. Sometimes I break the hide lower to soften them but really for hanging case skinned on the wall I at least want the head kinda stiff. I'm getting to the point I'm really thinking about making stuff from them now and probably going to take the next step soon. I really do appreciate the info passed on here and understand the work and mess involved that's a big reason I respect what you guys have done. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge
Bjrogg
BowEd:
bjrogg...Fox hats are cool!!!!Warm flannel lined.Sounds like you got a good handle on what you want to do.Same with me about acquiring hides from coon hunting.Like you say hundreds and probably thousands.Proper fur handling to send to Canada takes experience to make them look the best they can.Sewing holes properly too.Mostly fox though.Worth the effort if the numbers are big enough.Made my own cob grit tumbler too for the grease.
Trailwalker....Good luck with your cow hide.
trail walker:
hey everyone thanks for all the awesome advice. I think that brain tanning may be a little ambitious at this point i think we are going to try to get our hands on some tannin and try using that. Any way, we finally got to the hide here are some update pics. It is about 50 square feet and like a 1/2 in thick at the neck. what is your guys thoughts about jumping on the hide like a trampoline to soften it?
BowEd:
Good job of lacing the hide in.Here's what I did with a cow hide someone gave me.I think only 30 square feet worth though.Made it into rawhide.Used some of it to make 3 cat quivers with it for different people.Hip and back pocket quivers too.Other things too out of it too many to mention.
GlisGlis:
--- Quote ---I did a build-a-long called [big fella into buckskin/smoking/lots of pics under Beadman] in the primitive skills thread.Think it's at page 5 by now.Mind you it's just my way but a tried and true common method.
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it should be pinned on top as permanent interesting thread
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