Re: need help on making leather from deer hide « Reply #8 on: February 11, 2012, 05:03:52 am » Yep I mixed a quart or two of hydrated lye (the kind people put on their lawn) with water and then submerged the hide for a week.

2014-08-30 · Smoother is better for the wringing bar because rough spots can tear the hide. Take the edge that hangs farther down and lay it up on the bar, wrapping the hide around the bar loosely. Beginning at either side, roll the edge of the hide up until the middle is reached and then start again on the other side.

For leather and buckskin the hide preparation process is generally: Soaking – in an alkaline solution such as wood ash or hydrated lime (this dissolves mucous, makes the hair slip out and puffs up the fibres). Dehairing – using a tool to remove the hair (for buckskin also removing the grain – the outer layer of skin). Mix together and add deer hide. wait about 5 days and flesh the hair off. Jan 12, 2015 #8 .

2019-08-30 · How to Tan a Hide. If you hunt deer and other animals for their meat, why not use their hides as well? Treating a hide with a tanning process ensures you'll end up with a supple piece of leather that can be used to make shoes and clothing I have done deer, bear, yotes, fox, muskrat, coon, beaver and mink using the sulfuric acid method. As said when the hide is done soaking you have to work it soft.

There are many solutions, relaxing formulas for dried skins, dehairing, deliming, tanning (acid, alum, chrome, vegetable, neutralizing, degreasing and more. to wring out a deer hide. Figure 5: using a pole to pull the hide as it dries.

“Tanning a deer hide is a rite of passage, cementing blood ties to our hunting Dehairing – using a tool to remove the hair (for buckskin also removing the grain

Dehairing was a real child's play. No hard pushing on the hairs; just pushing the scraper down with ease.

Jan 7, 2016 Step-by-Step Instructions for Deer Hide Tanning · Step 1: Flesh the Hide · Step 2: Soak the Hide · Step 3: De-hair the Hide · Step 4: Remove the

It gives me an added pleasure in knowing I am using another part of a magnificent animal.

2009-02-04 · Do you salt the skin after fleshing it, or skip the salt and go right to the dehairing stage? I salted it and I can't get the hair off. I did a deer cape at the same time and it came off in two days.
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If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV recommendations. To http://trapandhunt.proboards.com/This is a quick batch of Lye to de-hair your hides or for other purposes as well.

Use a less valuable hide for beginning projects.
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Bucking a hog hide isn't as efficient at dehairing as Sweating is. With the hairs weaken by the lime, some hairs, which are more strongly rooted, break off under pressure of the scraper. A lime Bucked hog hide will appear pinkish/white on the grain side, and bluish/white on the flesh side.

Watch later. Share. Place the hide in a container; a 5-gallon plastic bucket will usually handle the largest deer hide. Add enough water to cover the hide.

av RE Haugerud · 1995 — reindeer Qlangifer tarandus tarandus) hide and leather. 81 the hides after dehairing as translucent patches. deer (Rangifer tarandus L.).

We walk you through the brain tanning method of how to tan a Nov 11, 2015 Place the hide on a raised surface with the hair side up. Use the back of a knife blade to scrape off the hair. Rinse the dehaired skin several times Jan 7, 2016 Step-by-Step Instructions for Deer Hide Tanning · Step 1: Flesh the Hide · Step 2: Soak the Hide · Step 3: De-hair the Hide · Step 4: Remove the Mar 18, 2013 dehairing a deer skin. Once a hide has been fleshed, bucked, and dehaired, it is almost ready to be tanned, but not quite. For a hide to be tance of deer hides to native populations and several patterns or methods of making clothing non bone flesher were all used in dehairing the other hide.

The fleshed and dehaired hide is rawhide, i.e., the dry, unprocessed layer of hide that is tanned to make leather. Rawhide has many uses but it is unsuitable for clothing because it is rigid, it rots after prolonged wetness, and it becomes stiff on drying. Liming is a process used for parchment or leather processing, in which hides are soaked in an alkali solution.It is performed using a drum and paddle or a pit. Its objectives are: The hide can potentially be left in the pickle for several more days, or even longer, as long as a pH of 2 or lower is maintained.