Oiling and softening bark tanned hides
The way I've been oiling my bark tanned leather is like this.After tanning and rinsing I hang the hide up and let it dry. It gets very stiff and brittle. you don't want to bend it or you will crack...
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Nice skins. I can't imagine gathering a couple of garbage bags full of sumac leaves. wow..now that's dedication AND patience!
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Here are some leaves drying. You can pick them on the stem and then strip them off later. One guy picks them and then mows them with his lawn mower to break them up. Read More
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Nice pics..so you're just going around collecting sumac branches with a pruning shears? I would like to collect some more of the cattails from our pond and hang them similar to this for weaving later....
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Here is the hide after the first oiling. I'm thinking I want to reapply to the center portion. I love the color of this hide, especially on the edges. I think a reoiling of the lighter colored center...
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Nice big goat skin Jan. I think that during the course of you working on that goat skin it was stiffening up in the areas that didn't take on the darker color with the oil. You notice how the thinner...
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I was looking for some info on plaiting the bulrushes and came across this info on the roots of the bulrush.. "A peculiar process was employed in some parts in order to bleach or whiten fibre to be...
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Paulette,Thanks for your input. I was able to get the rawhide soft without problems. Yesterday, I reoiled the hide and the color evened out. I only had a little bit of neat's foot so the thickest...
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Well that's wild, Jan. Glad to hear the extra application of the neatsfoot sucked right in like that.. sure couldn't tell by the picture you sent but what do I know about bark treated leathers! I sure...
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Here is the reoiled, staked, and rolled and abraided or otherwise softened large goat hide again. It isn't as soft as the f...Read More
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Here is the third sumac and oak bark tanned goat hide I've done. I treated it with neat's foot oil painted on both sides while damp then dried it softening it as it dried. Then I washed it in three...
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Kewl! Great looking skins, Jan. Nice work!Sounds to me like you might enjoy using the metal horse blinder tool.. it's the insert that can be found inside the eyepiece of the old horse bridles.. I...
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Well apparently I can only put in one pic at a time in this hijack of posts, lol.. I am bad.This is the same skin in t...Read More
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Lol.. well I renamed both those pics on the photobucket and it may have affected the linking so I uploaded that pic to the 'bucket' again.. try that.. this is keeping me from cleaning up after my...
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Well guess I should have more patience! nothing like a little double or triple exposure is there? happy tannin' ya'all
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Jan I am thouroughly impressed with your results and your writing up of your instructions on how you did this Goat hide stuff. Vegetable tanning. and your pictures..very artfully done gal.I am really...
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Well, thank you Paulette for the photo of the curved horse blinder scraper/softener. It looks like it does a fine job on that nicely smoked, soft hide you have over that fence. I have a huge shell I'm...
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Quills, Thank you for your very kind assessment of my hide tanning progress. Does that mean I get an A+ for coming a long way baby? lol It means a lot to hear your praise, but dang it's going to my...
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in the spring i finished a bark tanned buck- a huge 10 point my 12 yr old son got- first shot hunting solo!bark tanned it through- oiled etc. and softened- but it seemed as though the grain was...
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the pictures don't show well but the back side is much lighter than the grain side- along some edges it seems less glassy and lighter like it gets when you stretch it...should i rewet-oil and soften...
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Hayseed, there are different reasons why grain is cracking. I’d need a very precise description of your process to try to guess what might have h...Read More
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