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Post by paulette on Oct 2, 2012 16:02:25 GMT -5
Well at least I have the first part complete.. now comes the effort part.. lol.. painting on some brains or other water soluble oiling and staking soft and smoking. Sure is a nice soft wool.. be great material for SOMETHING crafty.. like moccasin liners maybe? I was delighted to find this skin in my hide barrel out alongside the highway.. bloodied and filthy as it be.. it mattered not as I love to take the powerwasher and turbo nozzle to these skins..I'll show you! Just a little energy spent to roll out the washer and hook things all up.. think I might have had my son pull the starting cord for me..but just water and a half hour's time and it was both fleshed and rinsed of 98% of all it's lanolin and all the other crap a sheep can collect in it's fur. Excellent results is all I can say. I like to run the shop vac after washing these sheep furs as if I don't they'll just retain water for longer than I'd like, and also, if there are any flies about they really really like the sheep's wet wool to lay their eggs.. not sure why it is that they seem to leave the dried wool alone! But if you've ever had that happen to you rewashing those fly eggs out is pretty stubborn. Don't ask me how I know this wellll anyway need to reframe the skin to oil and stake now!.. and go on to smoking it.. work work work! guess the final results are worth it however and the washer really saves me a LOT of work on these already.. can't complain.. don't know why I still do! Sorry!
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Post by whitedove on Oct 2, 2012 16:28:45 GMT -5
WOW!!!What a difference.... Excellent is right...
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Post by paulette on Oct 2, 2012 17:49:06 GMT -5
Isn't that amazing though? I could have just added some dawn dish soap but have learned that the detergent can strip the wool of all its oil and scoured wool will then require more oil to 'condition it' lol.
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