Beaver Pelt
I've got a beaver pelt here and I'm looking for advice on how to tan it. I was planning on softening it with pork brains and a cable, then smoking it. It has been scrapped, stretched and dried. -Devin
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If it was me I would degrease it with kerosene and then wash it with Dawn to get the kerosene out. Every hide that I did not degrease the hair slipped after a while, especially raccoons. Then let it...
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Is there a more natural way to degrease a hide without making the hair slip? Is it necessary to degrease the hides from all animals before tanning? I don't want to put in all the work of tanning a...
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Here is an article about tanning furs. This Miller guy has a book out too. I read it once and thought it pretty good. I have tanned raccoons his way and they turned out good. A friend mine tried...
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