Author Topic: Smoking a deer hide (Read 6358 times)

Using wood that smells good, or at least not bad, is something to keep in mind during smoking. The smoke smell fades over time, but it doesn’t really go away. It’s time to turn the hide inside out to smoke the outside when the smoky brown color begins to bleed through to the outside. After the color begins to bleed through, leaving a hide to smoke longer is just about getting the desired color. Some people like the pale color and some like the dark, but as long as the smoke has penetrated through the whole hide, it’s essentially all the same. Be careful to not scorch the hide.

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2014, 11:42:29 AM »

Today is the day. Got the hide hanging and being smoked. First time so we'll see

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2014, 01:00:48 PM »

Here we go

trapper boy · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2014, 02:42:02 PM »

I here you supposed to smoke hides for about 4 hours-- on each side!
It does take a long time.

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2014, 03:25:52 PM »

Not sure why the pic got out up more then once. Smokes one side for 1hr 15 and the other side 1hr. Could have went longer but it looked good. It's my first time to smoke one and it's my wife's , so I'd rather not mess it up. Iv been told by a few people it don't take much to smoke a hide

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2014, 03:26:55 PM »

Not bad

runamuk · « **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2014, 03:49:28 PM »

so hang on here that looks like a processed hide already tanned? Why smoking it? just for color, for fun? I am curious because I have read up on a bunch of methods of dealing with hides, in my dream world I would have all sorts of soft tanned hides with and without fur.

Can you explain a little more from raw green skin to nice leather?

DeerThug · « **Reply #15 on:** December 13, 2014, 04:41:37 PM »

So i would like the recipe process from start to finish. That looks like something that I would like to do

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 13, 2014, 07:00:18 PM »

I'm far from a expert but I can tell you what I did. I've tanned a lot of STIFF deer hides but never a soft one. My wife shot this deer a few weeks ago. The plan was to tan it "hair on". I looked a lot on YouTube and Internet, found a guy I was going to follow his steps. It was a "egg" method of preserving the hide. The hair started slipn , I think I did a few thigs wrong.
So , plan B. I soacked it in soap for a few days,I pressure washed the air off
I made a stretcher, liked the Indians did
I took 18 eggs and mixed it with 1 and a half gal of water. I did put a table spoon of olive oil
Put hide in bucket and worked the hide every 10 min ( squeezed, twisted, wring it out and put it back in. Did that for an hr
Then took it outside and spent 30 min get all moisture out of it
Then repeated the step again. After wringing it out for the second time I let it sit all night. My wife stirred it every hr while I was at work.
That night I spent 45 min getn all moisture out
Then did a little hand stretchn
Put it on rack and worked it for an hour,
Then pulled it off and hand stretched it for hrs.

I then smoked it because by smoking it it gives it a color more importantly it makes it waterproof Plan on starting a coon hide Monday. Got dozens of them to do. So Im sure I'll learn a lot Wife went to Leavenworth some it was a good Saturday project

runamuk · « **Reply #17 on:** December 13, 2014, 07:02:57 PM »

very cool thank you for sharing I had wanted to do this back when I was raising sheep but never was able to get set up to do my own tan.

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2014, 07:05:46 PM »

Brain Tanning a Deer Hide Part 2 of 6
By Xavier. Long video , but good

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2014, 07:07:00 PM »

Buckskin Part 1- Hide Braining
Is also good. I kinda did both

n_mathews13 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 23, 2014, 05:05:57 PM »

Iv up graded my hide smoker. Can't wait to see if it works

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