Post by paulette on Nov 25, 2011 10:01:33 GMT -5
Well here it is the day after.. I'm sure I'm a dollar short! Am still registering on full.. that's what I'm a dollar SHORT!
ANYWAY... I was gifted with quite a few more deerskins from the hunters.. I get all excited about hides but sometimes it just really bums me out to see them all knifed up! It is easy enough to score them up and the folks I get them from usually don't have a clue on how they're scoring up the skins to start with! Probably wouldn't be getting ANY if I started to try and educate them so I usually take what FREE stuff I can get! Like the saying goes.. you usually get what you pay for and this is true with deer skins too! So I'll have to settle for the great skin once in a while or making smaller projects out of the ones I do manage to get tanned.
Reminds me.. need to take along my little saw and try and get some longer thicker willow rods for framing a beaver I've recently been tanning.
This is the fifth one this year on the beaver tanning.
By braintanner101 at 2011-11-25
Also getting plenty of the leg skins from these whitetails. Cut myself GOOD or bad on the one.. never take your mind off what the heck you're doing when cutting these hock skins.. ITS DANGEROUS! The Dakota fleshing machine is a bit easier to remember your FINGERS.. Makes a lot of noise.. I don't EVER want to cut myself with that.. guess you bleed for seemingly forever with one of those ;-)
anyway hope to make some cool looking bags between the hock skins, the oil tanned leather and the beaver tails.. need some red wool too. Would be a nice 'touch'.. lot of efforts on this 'stuff'.
By braintanner101 at 2011-11-24
ANYWAY... I was gifted with quite a few more deerskins from the hunters.. I get all excited about hides but sometimes it just really bums me out to see them all knifed up! It is easy enough to score them up and the folks I get them from usually don't have a clue on how they're scoring up the skins to start with! Probably wouldn't be getting ANY if I started to try and educate them so I usually take what FREE stuff I can get! Like the saying goes.. you usually get what you pay for and this is true with deer skins too! So I'll have to settle for the great skin once in a while or making smaller projects out of the ones I do manage to get tanned.
Reminds me.. need to take along my little saw and try and get some longer thicker willow rods for framing a beaver I've recently been tanning.
This is the fifth one this year on the beaver tanning.
By braintanner101 at 2011-11-25
Also getting plenty of the leg skins from these whitetails. Cut myself GOOD or bad on the one.. never take your mind off what the heck you're doing when cutting these hock skins.. ITS DANGEROUS! The Dakota fleshing machine is a bit easier to remember your FINGERS.. Makes a lot of noise.. I don't EVER want to cut myself with that.. guess you bleed for seemingly forever with one of those ;-)
anyway hope to make some cool looking bags between the hock skins, the oil tanned leather and the beaver tails.. need some red wool too. Would be a nice 'touch'.. lot of efforts on this 'stuff'.
By braintanner101 at 2011-11-24