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The Adventures of Stinky Rawhide: Deerskin Soup, Part 1
El Destructo:
--- Quote from: mullet on November 27, 2008, 01:39:45 pm --- Chris, you should have waited till the wife left and thrown them in the washing machine.
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Damn Eddie....you think Like Me!!!!!!!! >:D
JackCrafty:
Minuteman, thanks for posting that. ;D
When the smoke clears from Thanksgiving and such.....I'm going to begin soaking my skins. I'll also put one in a frame for dry scraping.
I agree that wet scraping is messy (I scraped the flesh from my skins a while back) and I hope the whole business doesn't get too smelly on top of that. Bleach will probably help a lot. I might try hydrogen peroxide as well.
Minuteman:
Yeah Destructo-matic, they were fleshed real well. It wasn't the smell so much that wasn't the issue , they just smelled like deer really , it was just waaayy more mess than I thought it ought to be. The ashes made it so handling them had to be done with rubber gloves as I could feel the lye leaching my hands dry without them. I think my next will just be fleshed green, water soaked, de-haired only and not grained so the leather I make has more body .
I'd enjoy hearing about your experiences, Jack.
JackCrafty:
I'll keep you posted. ;D
Hillbilly:
Another thing I like about dry-scraping is that you can scrape a few minutes here and there as you get time-you don't have to do it all at once like wet-scrape where once you start, you're commited.
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