Most of the ingredients, and the salted pelt. If slip has already set in, the pickle will stabilize the pelt, if it hasn't, it will prevent it from happening. The pickle plumps the pelt, makes fleshing a bit easier and MOST IMPORTANTLY, prevents bacterial growth. It's already been rough fleshed and salted. I chose a pretty gold tipped blue steel rabbit pelt for this experiment. why not?)ħ break(stretch and soften) pelt while drying. neutralize (20 minutes in water with baking soda) then drain (I use towels to absorb extra water from the pelt.cause. final flesh (a thicker hide you would return to the pickle for a day, but rabbits are so thin-skinned, I've never found it necessary.)Ĥ. salt (overnight, or I'll store them salted and use whenever)ģ. Tanning hide into leather involves a process which permanently alters the protein structure of skin, making it more durable and less susceptible to decomposition and coloring. Time to see if cheap store bought vinegar can be used to replace one of chemicals I normally buy.Ģ. Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.A tannery is the place where the skins are processed. There's as many ways to tan as there are tanners, after all It's important to learn a lot of different ways and chose what is best for your situation. Letting me drag out the process for 2 weeks if I'm too busy to get to it, making fleshing a bit easier, and stopping slip if it's already begun. Boil three gallons of water and pour over the bran flakes. My bottle doesn't say that, but I'm sure it can be done by skipping the pickle step altogether, fleshing the raw or salted pelt, and brushing on the tan right after the salt is rinsed away.Īh well, pickling still has it's uses, for example making 100% sure that the fur stays on the pelt. A couple of hours before you plan to tan, soak the dried skins in clear, fresh water until flexible. Hey, the bottle in the pic on the website says it can work with just salt. Some litmus strips, to make sure acidity remains stable, and a big bag of cheap stock salt. If it's wetted after breaking, it will need to be re-broken though. Seems to work especially well on rabbits. It's a brush-on, it tans and oils the at the same time. It would do at least couple deer, or a whole bunch of rabbits. Lets go with, cheap vinegar (acetic acid), and rittels qwik-n-eze tan. I've also used citric acid with fine results. I've been using rittel's saftee acid as a pickle for a while now (normally, a tan is not called a pickle, a pickle is a separate step, to prep a pelt for tanning).
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