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!!!
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. But maybe the method is different for buckskin - I fear soaking rabbit pelts may make the fur even more likely to fall out. Just removed it from the rabbit and scraped away. 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. I think I remember reading that this is why chrome tanning isn't technically tanning, it's just the salts stay in really well.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. Then they would be rawhide and stable unless they got moisture and the salts came out. You could heavily brine, salt and dry them. If you tan them you aren't making rawhide, you are making leather. I was being lazy and putting it off and it wreaked because of it. It was tanned last fall.Īlso, don't leave the skins in the egg for 4 days, two is fine. I got it soaked the other day going through the brush after a rainstorm, it is fine. It is not pliable because I did not work it, Didn't need it to be for a sling pad. I have only egg tanned and have no brain tanned items to compare it to. The shoulder pad on my rifle sling is squirrel I egg tanned. I still have two frozen cowhides in my freezer that I'm going to make rawhide out of, "when I get time". If I could get someone else to do the work up to that point, and NOT think about what I was really using, I think I would someday like to try it. I remember talking to a guy who did some brain tanning, and he said he'd put the brain in the blender and make a "brain shake".
#ALL ABOUT TANNING RABBIT HIDES SKIN#
How does the skin end up? Is it similar to a brain tan? And do the skins have an odor after they are finished? I never knew you could tan hides with an egg! I have, at times through the years, really wanted to try a brain tan, but I also, get a little queasy at the thought of cracking the skull open.
The rabbit will be mittens for my middle son and the squirrel will be my youngest sons first marble bag. My next step will be a light rinse and drying between paper towels and the stones again.ĭepending on what I choose to do with them I will work/stretch them to make them pliable and then apply kiwi leather preservative. This gets put in the pantry/extra oven to soak up the egg, roughly 2 days or until it smells funky. I rinse the salt off, wring them out and rub them with whole egg yolks in a tupper ware containers. In my current batch I am at the egg stage. This then gets put between two patio slates to dry for about 2 days. Then I Rinse them well, wring them out, lay them flat on paper towels and heavily salt the inner with table salt and put some salt on the fur side. 2 Days, agitating when I pass the bucket. I use cold/tepid water and add some citrus juice as our water is heavily alkaline, this helps to stop the hair falling out. Really hoping to get some chipmunks, a red squirrel, a black squirrel, and maybe a young woodchuck at some point too.Īfter skinning I rinse and brine the pelts in a bucket with rock salt. I shoot, skin, and egg tan squirrels and now a rabbit for their furs.
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