What natural cordage can be used for the taut rope (I used nylon string because of its strength)? I'd have thought nettle string would wear out too quickly.ĭid our ancestors here in Britain do mainly brain tanning, or did they use salts like Dave is doing? Did they work small pelts like rabbits inside by the fire when it was raining, or did they just wait for suitable weather before working them outside? I now have even more respect for our ancestors, who presumably had to go through the process I've just been through whenever they wanted a fur to wear!!! 535 subscribers Subscribe 4. After dressing the rabbit, toss the raw hide (split down the belly, not cased) into a ziploc bag and put into the freezer. But I don't know anything about salt alum tanning, sooo.
I have a few bald patches on my pelt from working it even without soaking the fur much. Make a small knot at one end of your thread and run the opposite through your needle.
Its a fairly simple process that doesnt require any previous.
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But maybe the method is different for buckskin - I fear soaking rabbit pelts may make the fur even more likely to fall out. In this video, I show you how to tan animal hides, especially deer hides, using Alum & Borax. If you need to keep the flies away cover the rag with borax.
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Just removed it from the rabbit and scraped away. Now take a wet rag and cover the skin to keep the egg from drying out and let it sit over night. Tommythecat - I didn't soak the hide before fleshing it at all. It also wasn't raining today, so less moisture in the air (which is what stopped the pelt from drying properly last time I tried) The tip from Joe about pulling the pelt around a taut rope is probably the thing that helped most. I'll hopefully work the others in the next few weeks and then smoke them all at the same time. A great thing about rabbit hide is its far easier to work with compared to. I finally got time to damp the crispy areas on my pelt and rework it today - with success! It's lovely and soft Woo hoo!!! I put a huge amount of work in to that pelt, so now have a fantastic sense of achievement. Rabbit pelts need to be tanned before they can be used, and tanning the.
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