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Smoking a deer hide
« on: December 01, 2014, 01:22:12 PM »
Anyone got any input how long smoken a hide should take?

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 01:28:40 PM »
ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. :chuckle:.

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2014, 01:35:40 PM »
ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. :chuckle:.

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2014, 01:39:58 PM »
I can never keep mine lit  :dunno:  :chuckle:
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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2014, 01:45:56 PM »
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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2014, 09:00:23 PM »
I can never keep mine lit  :dunno:  :chuckle:
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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2014, 09:02:28 PM »
I can never keep mine lit  :dunno:  :chuckle:
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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2014, 09:17:07 PM »
ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. :chuckle:.

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2014, 09:21:18 PM »
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.

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« 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

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2014, 01:00:48 PM »
Here we go

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« 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.

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« 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

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2014, 03:26:55 PM »
Not bad

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Re: Smoking a deer hide
« 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?

 


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