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The Adventures of Stinky Rawhide: Deerskin Soup, Part 1
JackCrafty:
:D
Minuteman:
Thats pretty funny right there! :D :D
mullet:
Oh! I forgot to tell you another,,, easy way to slip hair and it doesn't stink. ::) :-[ If you freeze it for a few days, then take it and let it completely thaw. Then freeze it again, real good, and then thaw it again, the hair will fall out like a dog with mange. ;D
Minuteman:
Well, I pulled all 4 hides out of the water/ vinegar solution they all felt much less swollen and they no longer had that" so slickery you can't hold onto" it feeling. I figured they were ready for the tanning solution after I scudded off the flesh side again, I was really trying to remove some of the ash crud from the skin. Next time I'm gonna dehair with pickling lime so they don't get so dern dirty. I didn't do as good a job as I could have but it was cold out there with wet hands. I think next year I'm gonna do my hides in October. I guess that means I need to kill a bunch a deer with my bow, huh?
I checked the hides after they had been in the bark for two hours and they had already started absorbing the tannin.
Pretty cool , I've wanted to do this for ten years. ;D
Chris
JackCrafty:
Well, I fleshed 5 out of 11 hides and the ones with the flesh still on are getting a little ripe. I changed the water last night and they weren't too bad...but I got to finish them up soon! :-X
Here's my hide fleshing set-up. The platform (that I stand on) is an old gate, the fleshing beam is a 4" treated post with a 2x4 nailed to the bottom, my scraper is a metal rule I got off a combination square, gloves, plastic bag "shirt", and a hide in a bucket.
Here's a couple of hides soaking in a solution of water (10 gals ?) and 2 cups drain opener....a technique that Cowboy suggested when he was here. Let's see if it works. ;D Smells good anyway.
I rounded the corners of the rule so that I wouldn't punch holes in the gloves. The edge is just sharp enough for fleshing, yet not so sharp that it cuts the gloves.
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