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 Post subject: Does it matter?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:11 am 
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For those of you who have home tanned hides for awhile. Does the end product differ when tanning a freshly cleaned green hide as compared to a hide that has been on a forming board and left hung for a month or so (I am not talking six months or more). I am also talking about softer hides like weasels, marten, foxes not grizzly old beaver.
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 Post subject: Re: Does it matter?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:05 pm 
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Fresh skinned hides will produce better leather but it works fine either way especially when doing thinner skinned animals like fox. You will want to brush it with a relaxer and soak in same before putting in salt solution to rehidrate the hide before tanning when doing dried pelts.

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 Post subject: Re: Does it matter?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2016 9:05 pm 
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Better to dry the hides after a thourough fleshing.Drying will weep out more grease in the hide.
When you rehydrate and scrape before tanning you will remove more grease giving you a better finished product.
There is nothing that hinders rehydration and or tanning than grease left in the leather.
When a dried pelt is rehydrated it should be just as loose as when it was first taken off the animal.


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 Post subject: Re: Does it matter?
PostPosted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:51 am 
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I beg to differ Wahbush Skin flesh salt 2 x 24 hrs ea, pickle , Thin ,DEGREASE will get all the grease out, pickle , tan .
I don't like to have to rehydrate a hide .

More chance for slip to occur

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