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Mr O

Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 5512
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 6:35 pm Post subject: Tanning A Deer hide ?
My nieghbour five doors down has just shot a 8 tip white tailed buck, does anyone know how to go about tanning the hide?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 6:38 pm Post subject:
BOT's your bloke for this.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 6:56 pm Post subject:
This thread might be useful: https://forum.downsizer.net/about3498.html

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 7:06 pm Post subject:
Sally in Wales also, I think, knows about this sort of thing.

Cobnut

Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 475
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 7:07 pm Post subject:
I used a tanning kit from Snowdonia Taxidermy Supplies on a deer skin and it was really easy, and they were very helpful when I had a query too

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 7:24 pm Post subject:
Tanning any hide would be useful to me. I have a freezer near full of rabbit skins that have been asking to be cured for over six months and I dearly need that freezer space. It would also be nice to have a winter rug so will watch this space.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
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Location: South West

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 7:27 pm Post subject:
I saw that Whittingstall chap cure rabbit skins on the telly once - as I recall he stripped off any remaining bits of meat, then salted them and then just massaged the salt in for ages. I wasn't paying close attention so he may have used something else, as well as the salt.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46249
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 7:33 pm Post subject:

salt it for a day or two to make scraping the fatty bits ,meat ,connective gubbins etc off the inside

there are many ways to tan but all rely on good scraping

a flat board and curved blade suits some as does the reverse

takes me about an hour a square foot to do a good scraping job on a hide ,so allow time

a bit of a dry after scraping helps the cure to soak in

after curing it is important to stretch crinkle and soften for a flexible product

oak wasp galls are a great source of tannin but need a bucket to a deer skin so maybe a wheelbarrow of oak bark off the firewood is more convienient

brain tanning works but is smelly

chemicals work

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 8:38 pm Post subject:
What would you do with a box of Edwardian silver fox (possibly) pelts... Just asking...

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 10:07 pm Post subject:
https://www.downsizer.net/Projects/A_sustainable_home/Alum_Tawed_Hides_and_Skins_in_Ten_Easy_Steps/

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 10 11:04 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

What would you do with a box of Edwardian silver fox (possibly) pelts... Just asking...

And how long have those been in your freezer ??

A stole.... lots of stoles.... coat collars.... hats.... mitts....

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 10 12:49 am Post subject:
Wear them darling!

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 10 8:20 am Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

What would you do with a box of Edwardian silver fox (possibly) pelts... Just asking...

I could put you in touch with a fur trader who sells to re-enactors if that would be any help?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 10 1:47 pm Post subject:
I did try to contact them (you gave me the details ages, years ago) but got no reply. Perhaps when you next see them next you could mention it. Tell them it wasn't a weird hoax. I am really not sure wheterh to leave them in their interesting box for the next generation or do something with them.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 10 1:58 pm Post subject:
hmm, if you know how much you want for them, we could put a post up direct on one of the living history sites?

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