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Tanning an otter hide, got a question
Ed Brooks:
I just did an otter using mayo without any thinning, it made a nice quiver. Good luck! Ed
BowEd:
If you'd like Kyle I can bring some nice dry flat willow hoops to Mo Jam big enough for blanket beaver to be laced in for your man cave wall displays.
Like this.
Mo_coon-catcher:
Why not, bring one along and we can figure out a trade. I have a 40# pelt fried and ready to tan right now, a couple 50# and 1-70# pelt still in the freezer. If you have one late enough that’ll do the big one, I’d like to put it on the wall. The others will be made into different projects. I want to make some cold weather maccosin wraps with one or two.
I haven’t tanned that otter yet. But I remembered I had a pair of muskrats o had tanned, one that needed a second oiling to get soft enough. So I went ahead and made a sporran out of those two and a piece of hard cow leather I had.
Kyle
BowEd:
Nice looking primitive pouch there.One would need to know the measurements of your fleshed stapled dried beaver to fit into the proper sized hoop.As I said a couple of these hoops will accomodate blanket beavers.That is,the measurements on them are at least 34" by 36".A blanket beavers' measurements to qualify as a blanket beaver are normally 32" by 32" or adding up to at least 64" total.They can be egg shaped also measuring 30" by 34" too,just so they add up to more than 64".
Personally I have had and sold enough beaver pelts and different things made out of them in the past.I've done all that your doing there back in the 80's and 90's while buckskinning.Beaver and muskrat mounty style hats were my favorite.
Mo_coon-catcher:
The smaller beaver will very likely fit those hoop sozes. I’ll measure this one and very well could end up bringing it to mojam and tanning it. Thee last time I boarded a beaver this size it filled a 32x48” board. I make my beaver boards by cutting. Plywood into equal thirds along the length, so I get 48x32. Hopefully the dry summer heat will have that pelt dry quick so I don’t spend 16 hours breaking it. I think I’ll do that for one of my projects while there.
Kyle
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