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bownarra:
Why does he soak the hides for 60 - 90 days I wonder?
It really is very simple to make it yourself.

Mesophilic:

--- Quote from: bownarra on January 20, 2020, 02:05:03 am ---Why does he soak the hides for 60 - 90 days I wonder?
It really is very simple to make it yourself.

--- End quote ---

Just guessing here but maybe it has to do with the quality of the hide?  I'd imagine all the excellent hides go to a tannery and are worth more money.  Or the hides havent been fleshed all that well to begin with.  The extended soak in lime may loosen things up so it doesn't take as much work to turn them in to glue.  Hair, meat, and fat just sloughing right off?

I imagine a glue-er has to pinch every penny to stay lucrative in todays world of intant gratification.

bownarra:
No nothing to do with the quality of the hide - they are all the same from a glue making point of view. It is to do with yield. They will make a giant soup and then strain off the hair etc.
Todays world is just the same as it ever was they just have us believing that there is such a thing as 'instant gratification' and that things have changed! But no if you look everything important is still the same haha...…...just like hide glue!

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