An important product of your deer hunting is the leather hide. You may send this hide into several tanners, or tan it yourself. Following are ways to make your deer hide functional and valuable.
After removing your hide, draw it out and rub about two pounds of salt on the flesh side. Then fold the edges to the middle, roll up hair out and place in a box or a burlap bag. There are many tanners throughout the nation that will tan this deerskin and make leather accessories from your hides.
A small deer,80 to 135 lbs dressed, will give you about 6 to 8 square feet of leather. A medium deer, 135 to 180 lbs, will yield 9 to 11 square feet of leather and a very large deer will yield 12 to 16 square feet of leather.
This tanned leather can be used in gloves,3 sq. ft., handbags,5 sq. ft., garments, 50 sq. ft., wallets,1 sq, ft, moccasins,3 sq. ft., pouches and more. Tan your hide and reap the benefits of soft, supple, strong deerskin leather.
For a hair on wall hanging, it is fairly easy and practical to hard-tan the hide yourself. This leaves the hide stiff, rather than soft. Essentially, hard tanning is as practical as soft-tanning if the hide is going to be used as a wall hanging.
One other neat use for your deer hide is to save and dry out the tail. Cut the tail off, and save it for tying trout flies and buck tail lures and crafts
Leather Unlimited in Belgium Wisconsin has several easy do-it yourself tanning kits. These kits may be used to tan your deer hide or other hides into useful and valuable hair on fur hide or leather hide. Create value from your deer hides and craft useful leather and leather products for your enjoyment with these easy to do it kits.
After removing your hide, draw it out and rub about two pounds of salt on the flesh side. Then fold the edges to the middle, roll up hair out and place in a box or a burlap bag. There are many tanners throughout the nation that will tan this deerskin and make leather accessories from your hides.
A small deer,80 to 135 lbs dressed, will give you about 6 to 8 square feet of leather. A medium deer, 135 to 180 lbs, will yield 9 to 11 square feet of leather and a very large deer will yield 12 to 16 square feet of leather.
This tanned leather can be used in gloves,3 sq. ft., handbags,5 sq. ft., garments, 50 sq. ft., wallets,1 sq, ft, moccasins,3 sq. ft., pouches and more. Tan your hide and reap the benefits of soft, supple, strong deerskin leather.
For a hair on wall hanging, it is fairly easy and practical to hard-tan the hide yourself. This leaves the hide stiff, rather than soft. Essentially, hard tanning is as practical as soft-tanning if the hide is going to be used as a wall hanging.
One other neat use for your deer hide is to save and dry out the tail. Cut the tail off, and save it for tying trout flies and buck tail lures and crafts
Leather Unlimited in Belgium Wisconsin has several easy do-it yourself tanning kits. These kits may be used to tan your deer hide or other hides into useful and valuable hair on fur hide or leather hide. Create value from your deer hides and craft useful leather and leather products for your enjoyment with these easy to do it kits.
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