leather tanning anyone???

Question

i need detailed info on how to make "rawhide" leather from deer skins. you humaniacs can save yopu breath. i,m a deer hunter!!!!

Answer 1

With or without hair? Without I'm guessing, Scrap all the fur off,
make sure to get all the fat and flush off too. If ya don't get all that off of the inside it will go sour. try not to let it dry out to much while your doing all that scrapping try to keep it rolled up. To dry it you will need a frame or sheet of plywood side of a barn..., some small nails or tacks. start at the neck and strech it out tacking it as ya go about every 6-8 inches. when your done with that you'll need salt and alot of it. (this is why I like to use a sheet of
plywood) if you can lay the hide down to do this, cover the hide in a good layer of salt ( I like using table salt it). now put the hide in some way that the juices will run away from the hide, and run it will you'll be surprized at how much runs out. You will to keep checking and resalting, the first day maybe 3 or 4 times. Keep this up till dry.
( one time 120.lb buck 4 boxes of salt, 70.lb doe 6 boxes.)
it's now as hard as a rock, I broke mine the old way I rolled it over a 2x4 for about 3 weeks.
If ya was keeping the fur ya would need to find ALUM, for a good sized buck 3-4 oz. mixed in 7 to 10g. of water. put the hide in the water completely none of it should be out, soak for a day, two won't hurt if it happens.

Answer 2

Man, I just watched this on How Its Made on the Discovey channel. But I think this link has about the same techniques....

http://www.alpharubicon.com/primitive/tanningdragoona.htm

http://www.braintan.com/tanown/index.htm

www.agfc.state.ar.us/pdf/tandeerhide_bro.pdf

Ah ha... no TV, no problem. The Net is your friend... lol.... Good luck man...

Answer 3

Are you SURE you want to do this?? Its a tremendous amount of work!! Any of your sporting good stores that sell hunting gear (*****, Cabellas, etc) can provide you with detailed books or you can go to your local library.

Answer 4

i think of this is nice to placed on a kind of colorations once you're wearing leather-based, i've got considered a woman wearing a black leather-based biker jacket with tight setting up black leather-based pants with brown boots and that i assumed she appeared super in it, i think of black boots might pass super with your black skinny denims and your brown leather-based jacket.