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Offline Fox

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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #30 on: November 03, 2020, 08:44:19 pm »
I just tried making a batch from rawhide dog bone scrapes... and it isn’t at all sticky.. I have stuff that I bought a while ago and it works and it’s real sticky... the stuff I made is a creamy color it’s been cooking for 6 hours at 170 ... it gells but it’s not sticky at all there was one point when it went over 170  could that have been the problem ?
Why must we make simple things so complicated?

Offline DC

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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #31 on: November 04, 2020, 10:25:14 am »
Is it about the consistency of syrup? I'm thinking it's too thin and you need to cook it a little longer.

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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #32 on: November 04, 2020, 11:20:55 am »
Okay I’ll try... after cooling it’s about the consistency of pudding
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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #33 on: November 05, 2020, 10:33:19 am »
It should be like light syrup when it's warm. All I've ever used is dog chew rawhide.

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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #34 on: November 05, 2020, 06:53:05 pm »
Another question... how do you rehydrate it?
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Re: Making hide & sinew glue from scraps
« Reply #35 on: November 06, 2020, 11:34:17 am »
Add water and wait ;D Usually overnight is how I do it. Then I heat it on one of those little coffee mug warmers. Once I've used what I need I freeze the left over. The last couple of times I used it I microwaved it to warm it up. There may be room to screw up here but I watched it carefully so it didn't boil.