best way to tan with fur on the hide?
I want to tan some hide I have with the hair on for a gentleman. He wants the hides for mocs, witht he hair left on. ALl the methods I know of require hair off. What is the best method of tanning with...
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Smoke and oil and manipulation till the skin is soft and warm and dry.I like Billy Metcalf's bicycle frame staker/softening tool. Just a section of bike frame cut off on an angle with any burrs ground...
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Thank you very much for the information. But could you tell me what I should actually do the tanning with to make a durable hair on skin hide? I have soaked a hide for a day in water to rehydrate the...
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You soaked a hair on hide in water for a day to rehydrate? That's a sure way to ensure some bacteria to start multiplying in that layer of skin that the hair is in, especially a hide that has been air...
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Well, reckon I should have mentioned this is deer skin. I have two half hides from the rear that I am practicing on. They are what is left from some deer mounts. These hides were salted. I put them in...
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These capes can be of a fairly substantial size. Long thick hair most likely too. by the term 'graining' that means to scrape off the layer that the hair is set into with a dullish kind of a bar, (so...
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Yes it does, thank you very much, I really appreciate it.
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Well GOOD!! Hope you enjoy the art as well as we all do!
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I just learned a lesson, You really have to flesh a hide before drying it, otherwise it can take a week to dry. I had no time to flesh them and hung them in my garage, that didnt dry them, so I put...
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Probably be okay, till the bugs get to them. Don't want to soak them to rehydrate them..so not sure how youll manage fleshing them! My powerwasher'd do it and get the flesh side started rehydrating...
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Well, reckon I have to soak them then, but for how long?
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Reckon you should be making brain tanned buckskin with it instead. The 'fur' isn't worth preserving IMO. Just scrape it and the layer below off, fleshing first. Good luck. Soak for as long as you...
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