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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Jacklaroo on February 10, 2015, 05:44:16 AM

Title: first tanning project
Post by: Jacklaroo on February 10, 2015, 05:44:16 AM: Using a salt and alum recipe i have completed my first tanning project. Still have a lot of learning and perfecting to do but im feeling rather proud of myself. I kept postponing it thinking it was gonna be hard to do. It wasn't that hard at all just need some more bunnies to practice on.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on February 10, 2015, 06:18:54 AM: Nice, got any pics of the leather?
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 10, 2015, 09:33:13 AM: No i will post the leather later today. I dont know why didnt i take a pic of the leather.
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Post by: Smossy on February 10, 2015, 10:11:01 AM: If you dont mind sharing that recipe Id love to see how you did i, I also was going to try it with pickeling salt and alum but I thought it to be too hard.
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Post by: n_mathews13 on February 15, 2015, 11:46:13 AM: I'm learning also. Been fun. I use salt & aluminum sulfate also. Been workn
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Post by: kisfish on February 15, 2015, 12:15:17 PM: tagging along
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Post by: jasnt on February 15, 2015, 12:19:02 PM: :tup:
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Post by: fast1 on February 18, 2015, 11:23:28 AM: Is the hair still tight? Where are you finding your alum or the aluminum sulfate? Looks great tho.
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 23, 2015, 12:55:38 PM: Sorry this is so late.
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 23, 2015, 01:18:13 PM: Quote from: Smossy on February 10, 2015, 10:11:01 AM
If you dont mind sharing that recipe Id love to see how you did i, I also was going to try it with pickeling salt and alum but I thought it to be too hard.
I thought it was going to be difficult also but its actually pretty simple.
I decided on a recipe provided by motherearthnews.com
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 23, 2015, 01:33:13 PM: Quote from: fast1 on February 18, 2015, 11:23:28 AM
Is the hair still tight? Where are you finding your alum or the aluminum sulfate? Looks great tho.
I eventually found the alum at our local health food store. The hair is holding strong though next time i need to do better at stretching. I decided since i only had one i could hand stretch it which i would do again just longer. It was a fun experience and cant wait to do again.
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Post by: stevemiller on February 23, 2015, 01:41:41 PM: There are a couple of recipes on the mother earth site.What is yours?The hides look very good and I think they look very soft as well.
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 23, 2015, 02:05:49 PM: i choose the salt and alum recipe.
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Post by: stevemiller on February 23, 2015, 02:58:08 PM: Ok,yeah thats what I do as well.I havnt done it yet but I would guess the battery acid one is one that you would use for no fur?I use the plant stuff at the home depot for the aluminum.
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 23, 2015, 06:17:49 PM: Id like to know about brain tanning. Is it hard to do? Sounds gross but im curious.
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Post by: Spawnstar on February 23, 2015, 07:59:38 PM: Quote from: n_mathews13 on February 15, 2015, 11:46:13 AM
I'm learning also. Been fun. I use salt & aluminum sulfate also. Been workn
looks great Mathews, if you get board I can send you some coyotes.
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Post by: n_mathews13 on February 23, 2015, 11:02:53 PM: Spawnstar, I might take you up on it one of these days..As of now I got a few dozen coons and a few deer hides in freezer but I did a yote a few weeks ago and it was fun. I'll let you know. I'm still learning. Wife's worried she's loosen garage lol

Didn't do brains yet, hard to find ( for me anyway). But I did eggs, that was cool.
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Post by: Swannytheswan on February 23, 2015, 11:07:32 PM: you can get pigs brains a uwajimaya. Using brains is easy just kind of a hassle to smoke the hide
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Post by: Instinct on February 24, 2015, 05:29:49 AM: Well might as well chime in. Watched a dude off YouTube do a egg mayo vegetable oil mix so I went with that followed by some salt in the mix an used the tree to scrape an work the hide.. 3 yotes. First one is in the wall (accidentally ripped off the tail while skinning oops)
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Post by: Instinct on February 24, 2015, 05:32:38 AM: First one still no pro but its a start
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Post by: Jacklaroo on February 24, 2015, 06:57:01 AM: All the hides look good. Not sure ill do the brains but the egg sounds interesting.
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Post by: Savage.06Shot on June 08, 2015, 11:13:33 AM: first skin