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Member’s Work Bench => How to do leatherwork => Tanning => Topic started by: ThunderHeart on January 08, 2011, 05:29:10 AM

Title: Started tanning again today...
Post by: ThunderHeart on January 08, 2011, 05:29:10 AM
Decided that i had hem hawed around long enough and it was time to start emptying the freezer   I didnt realize i had so many hides in there .  4 whitetail hides  5 goat hides a couple fallow deer hides  half a Red deer hide that i had brained but never broke due to the weather being to hot and dry  I finished it up today  and The one i dread the most  A very large  long horn cow hide! I'll start with the goat hides and work my way up .  That Beef hide is really gonna wear me out worse yet  if i mess it up  the wife will wear me out and not in a good way!   pnic whipping
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: voyageur1688 on January 09, 2011, 12:48:00 AM
 Cow hide will be a bear ta tan. Did a moose hide and it bout did me in. Still have 1 to go.
Voy
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: Red Badger on January 09, 2011, 03:13:21 PM
Send it to me Voy i'll do it for a reasonable price for ya (.... Like I keep the finished hide...)  bunkr
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: heatherhistorian on January 09, 2011, 03:22:16 PM
You are ornery!
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: Red Badger on January 09, 2011, 03:28:35 PM
Quote from: heatherhistorian on January 09, 2011, 03:22:16 PM
You are ornery!
thmbsup
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: KHickam on January 10, 2011, 02:03:44 AM
Quote from: ThunderHeart on January 08, 2011, 05:29:10 AM
Decided that i had hem hawed around long enough and it was time to start emptying the freezer   I didnt realize i had so many hides in there .  4 whitetail hides  5 goat hides a couple fallow deer hides  half a Red deer hide that i had brained but never broke due to the weather being to hot and dry  I finished it up today  and The one i dread the most  A very large  long horn cow hide! I'll start with the goat hides and work my way up .  That Beef hide is really gonna wear me out worse yet  if i mess it up  the wife will wear me out and not in a good way!   pnic whipping
How do the goat hides work out - the Crow used antelope hides for their softest leather  - I would think it would be similiar?
Title: Re: Started tanning again today...
Post by: ThunderHeart on January 10, 2011, 06:10:31 AM
Quote from: KHickam on January 10, 2011, 02:03:44 AM
Quote from: ThunderHeart on January 08, 2011, 05:29:10 AM
Decided that i had hem hawed around long enough and it was time to start emptying the freezer   I didnt realize i had so many hides in there .  4 whitetail hides  5 goat hides a couple fallow deer hides  half a Red deer hide that i had brained but never broke due to the weather being to hot and dry  I finished it up today  and The one i dread the most  A very large  long horn cow hide! I'll start with the goat hides and work my way up .  That Beef hide is really gonna wear me out worse yet  if i mess it up  the wife will wear me out and not in a good way!   pnic whipping
How do the goat hides work out - the Crow used antelope hides for their softest leather  - I would think it would be similiar?

Goat makes some great buckskin.  It's soft and very durable, Even today some of the work gloves you can buy are made of goat skin! I have made mocc's out of it and bags  and other such items . so all in all It's good stuff!!