Need help with deer skins
Hi all. I'm new to the site. I read the article in this months Primitive Archer and found this place. Anyway, I have three whole deer skins in my freezer and want to make rugs out of them. Could...
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What article was that? Well suppose I'd need to acquire this month's Primitive Archer. Did they happen to mention this woman hide tanner brain tanning coyote and bobcat and making buffalo buckskin by...
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i would not waste your time tanning skins with hair on to throw on the floor. first its a pain as braintanner alludes to and secondly the hair is not going to withstand being walked on much. when i...
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Wouldn't believe how many times I get asked about tanning deer hides with the hair on! Like folks around here never heard of leather buckskin or something! I think if I had a large pretty home with...
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Ya, i suppose i didn't have any kind of practical use in mind for them, it would certainly be more of a decorative thing. Thanks for the suggestions, i will soon be at work on them.
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Hair on deer skin shed like crazy all the time I have a commercially tanned hair on deer hide that I just keep is the shed because it sheds hair all the time everywhere I have even thought about...
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^^^which is the best reason not to mess with them. they would work fine as wall hangings though....
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A myth about the hair breakage.. I mean it does in fact happen but it happens because of the way in which it is tanned. Hair is porous and can be made even more porous which results in brittleness and...
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its because deer hair is hollow...it just breaks easily...it just does whether we want it too or not...hollow haired animals are not good for tanning hair on
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