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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: UrbanTrapper on February 24, 2016, 10:45:52 PM

Title: Pelt Tanning
Post by: UrbanTrapper on February 24, 2016, 10:45:52 PM: I've seen several people on here asking about where to get pelts tanned. I just got these otter pelts back from Moyle Mink and I'm very pleased with the result. I specified that I wanted them garment tanned. Now I will ask Harts Lake Trading Post to make me an otter fur Russian hat! My wife wants an otter fur vest.

I'm going to try to home tan a beaver pelt this year. Even if it comes out with stiffer leather it will still be good for a willow-hooped cabin wall hanging and maybe pillows for the couch but I'll have to learn to sew. Might be able to sell these too.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: JakeLand on February 24, 2016, 10:51:55 PM: Looks great ! I'm sending all mine to moyles
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: ouchfoss on February 24, 2016, 11:11:49 PM: Quote from: JakeLand on February 24, 2016, 10:51:55 PM
Looks great ! I'm sending all mine to moyles
:yeah: Same here.
When did you send those to Moyle's? Curious about their turnaround time.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: bear hunter on February 24, 2016, 11:34:14 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: Machias on February 25, 2016, 05:55:16 AM: Their turnaround time right now is 7 to 8 months. Normally it's 3.5 to 4 months but since fur prices are so low, everyone is sending them furs, they are swamped. But IMHO it is worth the wait.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: jasnt on February 25, 2016, 05:55:34 AM: Look great. Otter hat would be warm
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: Kit Carson on February 25, 2016, 07:53:25 AM: Nice! :tup:
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: wags on February 25, 2016, 08:24:37 AM: Otter make great hats imo. Here's a picture of a Yupik style one I made last week.
The pictures could be better, but you'll get the idea.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: JakeLand on February 25, 2016, 01:30:48 PM: Quote from: wags on February 25, 2016, 08:24:37 AM
Otter make great hats imo. Here's a picture of a Yupik style one I made last week.
The pictures could be better, but you'll get the idea.

That's awesome post one of the beaver hat
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: jackelope on February 25, 2016, 03:05:57 PM: Quote from: wags on February 25, 2016, 08:24:37 AM
Otter make great hats imo. Here's a picture of a Yupik style one I made last week.
The pictures could be better, but you'll get the idea.

What is that hat worth?
That thing is sweet.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: Woodchuck on February 25, 2016, 03:08:51 PM: :yeah:
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: wags on February 25, 2016, 03:33:36 PM: What is that hat worth?
That thing is sweet.
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I'm trying to figure that out. I might start making them. It's been suggested that I should charge somewhere between $75 and $100 to make them out of other peoples tanned skins, and maybe $225-$240 retail out of my skins.
Any ideas?
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: JDHasty on February 25, 2016, 04:15:04 PM: Back in the 1980's or so I had Harts Lake Furrier make a baseball length jacket for me out of some really nice silver color coyote hides I had taken in Montana. These babies had four inches of fur on them and were prime pelts. I waited and waited and paid a pretty penny for it and finally went to pick it up and... I looked like a Q-Tip in that damnable thousand dollar jacket, either that or a pimp.

Anyway I did wear it a few times and low and behold I ran into a guy at a Tacoma Rockets hockey game who just had to have it. Russian or Ukrainian or some such eastern European like Hungarian or something like that. Anyway the long and short of it was that I actually turned a pretty profit on it.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: Kit Carson on February 25, 2016, 04:18:08 PM: Wags,

$75-$100 seems fair (providing ones own fur).
I'd pay that
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: Humptulips on February 25, 2016, 04:46:06 PM: That seems low to me. So, does it take about one otter? value of the otter plus the dressing even at todays low prices you still are going to have $70 in materials. That only leaves you $30 for your labor. Not enough IMO.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: wags on February 25, 2016, 05:02:37 PM: ^^^^^^
I meant $75-$100 for labor to make one out of your skins.
Title: Re: Pelt Tanning
Post by: JakeLand on February 25, 2016, 05:26:15 PM: How many hours to make + what your time is worth me doing side work is $55 an hour + material