Post by joanne2 on Nov 21, 2008 21:20:05 GMT -5
Was one tough little skin to flesh! I personally would NEVER have been able to do it without this washer and turbo nozzle and well quite a few gallons of quickly moving water. This guy brought it over to my house and left it.. It was shot the day before he brought it by.
It took about half an hour to flesh and the machine was a GOOD half throttle.. Running a machine like this one at that rate on your vehicle.. could possibly remove the paint.. It would not be a good idea! fleshing this skin with a dryscraper no matter how sharp would really be a challenge. I didn't have so much trouble with any of the large skins I have fleshed before. anyway ..I wanted to get it done asap.. and was doing it in the dark before it was done.. I turned the machine down quite a bit to wash the hair side missing a few burrs.. anyway I brought the skin in and took about 2 1/2 hours to flesh the face and turn the ears..removing the cartilage in those.. and then I framed the skin as I planned to get the washer out the next day and use it to remove the last bits of flesh.. well I never did and got busy with other stuff.. the guy didn't ask me to tan the skin as he was probably wondering where the funds were coming from himself to pay for me to flesh it.. and SO.. Paulette decides since the badger skin tawing is going so well.. and the bear skin..to get the brilliant idea to rehydrate the baby bison skin and soak that in some alum!.. so anyway the pics explain..almost.. I had to use the washer to help break or get the bison skin rehydrating a bit easier.. so the washer quickly broke the shrunken skin and finished fleshing the face.. made one hole on the cheek.. appears the head and face on the baby bison is somewhat different than the rest of the skins fibers.. looser or something.. aw well.. so anyway.. I'll let the pics to the talking.
It took about half an hour to flesh and the machine was a GOOD half throttle.. Running a machine like this one at that rate on your vehicle.. could possibly remove the paint.. It would not be a good idea! fleshing this skin with a dryscraper no matter how sharp would really be a challenge. I didn't have so much trouble with any of the large skins I have fleshed before. anyway ..I wanted to get it done asap.. and was doing it in the dark before it was done.. I turned the machine down quite a bit to wash the hair side missing a few burrs.. anyway I brought the skin in and took about 2 1/2 hours to flesh the face and turn the ears..removing the cartilage in those.. and then I framed the skin as I planned to get the washer out the next day and use it to remove the last bits of flesh.. well I never did and got busy with other stuff.. the guy didn't ask me to tan the skin as he was probably wondering where the funds were coming from himself to pay for me to flesh it.. and SO.. Paulette decides since the badger skin tawing is going so well.. and the bear skin..to get the brilliant idea to rehydrate the baby bison skin and soak that in some alum!.. so anyway the pics explain..almost.. I had to use the washer to help break or get the bison skin rehydrating a bit easier.. so the washer quickly broke the shrunken skin and finished fleshing the face.. made one hole on the cheek.. appears the head and face on the baby bison is somewhat different than the rest of the skins fibers.. looser or something.. aw well.. so anyway.. I'll let the pics to the talking.