What to do now

[gru556]

     I worked up a coyote hide fur on I thought I messed it up a couple times but it turned out pretty good.I've got the hide bucked so its soft but it has a gritty feel to it.
   Should I warm up some kind of oil and put it on Ideas anybody

[Micanopy]

Bucked? Bucking is the removing of hair and glycogins from the hide by using lime or hard wood ash for making bucked skin, now referd to as "Buckskin". Are you sure you dont mean "Broke"?
If you didnt oil it when you broke it down then you can oil it now and rebreak it so its nice and soft.

[gru556]

  OK I get it I'll try and put some oil on it Should I wash it first??

[Red Badger]

what kind of oil do you all recommend?

[Leathermonger]

what kind of oil do you all recommend?

Animal oil or grease, bear is perfect, lanolin will work also, always animal to anumal, never ever anything petroleum based or synthetic!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Micanopy]

what kind of oil do you all recommend?

PROTAL from Vandykes taxidermy supply. If yer gona tan spend a little money and do it right.

[Micanopy]

  OK I get it I'll try and put some oil on it Should I wash it first??

You can dampen it with some warm, not hot, water, not so its wringin wet, just damp. Then work in a 50/50 mixture of protal or even Lexol, which contains really good tanning oils. As it dries work it over a breakin beam until it is soft and dry.