Posted on 01/19/2016 11:14:23 AM PST by w1n1
There are many ways to tan a deer hide and you experienced hunters out there have your own methods. Here's a simple step-by-step way:
Step 1: Flesh the Hide
Step 2: Soak the Hide
Step 3: De-hair the Hide
Step 4: Remove the Grain and Membrane
Step 5: Neutralize the Lye
See the rest of the steps here. So what's your method?
Or take it to my taxidermist nephew.
I messed with tanning a bit. It was a lot of work, and I never did get it to turn out as soft as the commercially-tanned hides.
The colloquial term for a dollar is a buck. Hunters in colonial America would get one Spanish silver dollar for a buckskin. Hence one buck was the equivalent of one dollar.
What about brain tanning? ... mmmmm brainsssss.....
Wouldn’t that make pesos the bucks? Spanish didn’t use dollars.
I’ve tried with Elk and Mule Deer, neither one worked out for my satisfaction. Too much work, not as soft as I imagined and the hides were heavy to carry out of the mountains on my back.
Brain tanning..
Watch a series called Mountain Men.
One of the men is Tom in Idaho, Montana, somewhere up there.
He brain tans, then smokes the hides. Interesting to watch him and the others.
Every animal has just enough brains to tan it's hide. True.
Did one myself this way. Didn't quite turn out as soft as I would like, but it has remained in good condition after many years.
The Spanish eight reale silver coin, known as the Spanish dollar, was commonly used in colonial America and after the Revolution as currency.
***Too much work,***
That’s why the Indians had the squaws do that work!
thanks, learn something every day. Didn’t know that.
Tan me hide when I’m dead Fred......
What did they do, collect all the potty's?. Their tanneries were right in the middle of town, must have stunk pretty bad, but they were very prosperous.
Tom on “Mountain Men” uses some sort of broth made from animal brains to douse the skin and make it soft - pretty disgusting.....
My Squaw give too much lip, not enough chew!
I chew it like the Indians did
what the heck is brain tanning?
First of all, you get your wife or girl friend to chew on the hide to soften and break down the hide. Then you can go sing for the choir at the Vatican. Nothing to it.
Useful info for a rainy day?
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