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"Brain" tanning a dog chew

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DC:

--- Quote from: Pat B on December 27, 2017, 12:46:01 pm ---I think you have to hydrate the rawhide first.

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I thought that but then I wondered if it's going to suck stuff up it might as well be "brains". Don't know.

Outbackbob48:
Not sure of the process of making  dog chew rawhide, if the grain wasn't removed from rawhide it well be difficult for brains to be absorbed from both sides, to me seems like a lot of work for such a small pc of leather :( Bob

aaron:
like bob said, you'll need to scrape both sides, removing the epidermis and membrane layers.

DC:
It failed. It looked to my uneducated eyes that the epidermis had been removed so I mixed up three eggs and an equal amount of water and put it and the rawhide in a plastic bag. I left it in the cool garage for 3 days. It soaked up most of the egg/water mixture in that time. Then I rinsed it off and started working it over a piece of 1/8" aluminum. My old hands wouldn't take much so I ended up working it for about 10 minutes every couple of hours.  It seemed to be going well but the drier it got the stiffer it got. This morning it's quite stiff, not like rawhide but not supple. I'll work it a bit once I get some more coffee in me and the garage warms up and see what happens.

aaron:
if it's dry, it won't soften up.
when you start softening, you can take some breaks, but in the last hour or so you really have to go all out. You have to keep working it until you're sure its dry and then work it another 1/2 hour.

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