![]() The good thing is that you can always repeat the braining at anytime if its not good enough.Ĥ. If the skin hasn't been thinned enough there is no chance of a successful tan because you won't be able to work it dry. Let sit overnight and repeat, then again. I use a canoe paddle to squegee the brain solution around and push it as deep as possible into the grain. You need to thin the skin down some first, but there is no need to wring it before the first application of brains/eggs/oil. I have never had to degrease a deer hide.Ģ and 3. How should I Wash off/remove the brains(should I)ġ. How should I prepare the brains (water amount, cooking time and technique)ĥ. Should I wring out the hide, or towel dryģ How long should I leave the brain to soak/how should I go about rubbing the brain inĤ. ![]() Should I wash the grease off with alcoholĢ.Should I dry the hide out completely after washed before I brain itĢa. For some reason, the hide has dark and light splotches, it is especially dark at the head, and it is not rotting or anything like that, so.ġ. How would I go about smoking it and how should I soften the hide?Īll help would be greatly appreciated, and a step by step would be amazing Should I Get it completely dry, then rub the brains into the skin side, or should I wash it with water, and do my best to manually remove the water (wringing the hide out or a towel pressed against it) and then rub on the brain solution.How long let the brain sit and how should I remove the brain after it is soaked?Īlso, what amounts of water should i use to prepare the brain, and how should I prepare it? (I have the brain from the deer that the hide came from)Īnd then how should I work the hide, stretch it on the frame, or just let it sit? Then I am wondering about braining the hide. I would like to wash the hide again, because there is grease on it, and I could either use denatuered alcohol to remove the grease, or I could wash the whole think with soap and water. This isn't my first animals or deer hide, so I have a general idea about it, but i am wondering where to go from here. So far I have the hide all fleshed out nicely, and has been dried on a stretch rack, and now the skin is completely (if not very close to) dry, and has the consistency of poster board. ![]() Your doing fine BJ.I enjoy your black bear hide project on a different thread.Hey BHO! This is Jon here, looking for answers about Tanning Deer hides with the brains. Hide beetles come from no where that's for sure in every cranny of the world.I once stored a horse hide brain tanned unsmoked in a room and in time bugs did get to it.After fleshing & dehairing deer rawhide I do spray the rawhide down with regular bug spray with a light mist to store if I'm not going to brain tan dress soften it right away. No need to feel jaded here.Your experience is far more than mine being a taxidermist.I agree a hair on hide is suseptable to bugs.If not took care of properly.My statement was for hair off hides as it was'nt stated for either.Brain tanning though is not something a conventional taxidermist does.Still not a fan of hair on deer hides for robes etc.though because of the type of hollow brittle hair it has.With mounts I understand it being done.I have a cousin that is a taxidermist.He has been helpful at times for me with relaxants and degreaser formulas in a bottle for sale.With this being a primitive site smoke does the job for a bug detterant.įor hair on hides possibly using a cedar box.I store my hair on buffalo hides that way and actually out of the box around the house though with no bug problems.They had been smoked good on the flesh side though too. Reasons why many moccassins were made from smoke flaps off of old redone teepees. Now many do just hang the hides inside a smoky structure and do get a smoke color on their leather.I imagine that would and does from what I hear do the same thing.In reality the darker the smoking lends itself to not needing to be resmoked as soon as a lighter smoked hide.Every time smoked brain tan gets wet it should be left to dry on a clothes line or something suspended.Then scuffed around into itself to resoften it.Every time this happens the smoking job done on the hide will get lighter. It has for me Mounter.Not ever any bugs of any kind on my smoked leather goods.In fact at rendezvous wearing the brain tan smoked buckskins on a sultry summer night even the misquitos stay away from me while bothering the heck out of the rest of the force feed the smoke through the hide into the middle layers while smoking.Like this.Brain tan is a rather fluffed up type tan though too to allow that penetration of the smoke.It's actually smoked to water proof the white brain tan leather really with the added benefit of bug resistance then too.
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