Great video on the tail issue cut a narrow strip of hardware cloth and use a couple clothespins to hold the hardware cloth to the tail. That's one way I did tails .
Great video and tutorial !! I've never egg tanned but I think I'll be giving it a try. As for the tail , I cut a piece of wire screen to hold the tail open. Just staple it to the board when you're stapling him to the board.
I heard in Europe it was common practice in the 1700’s to use aged human urine as a tanning solution. I need to research that myself. Never heard of using eggs. Have one now I’ll try it on. Great video and thanks.....
I’m new to the tanning thing, I’ve hunting my whole life and I been skinnin critters my whole life, but skinnin out coons and fox to tan have got the best of me. I can skin them out and make the prettiest job you ever seen, until the tail. I have the hardest time getting that tail skinned out and still having the whole tail left on the hide when I’m done. Here lately I’ve been tearing the last couple inches off and it’s getting on my nerves 😂
Thank you for all your insight! In the process of learning to tan my first skin (scavenged deer leg). Very awesome to remind us that mistakes happen and that's how you learn- I'm sure my first one will be quite a learning process :^)
After I put my egg on my coon hide it won’t dry there is to much oil and grease still in the hide it has been drying for over 5 days with the egg on it I tried working it on a piece of rebar but the hide won’t get fully dry I fleshed the hide and salted it do you know anything I can do to help me?
Soak it in salt water a few hours like 2 . Then reflesh. Coons have way more fat than a fox or bobcat. It has to be well fleshed so that all membrain is off. Then retan and start stretching. The more you stretch the more it will dry. Also in cooler weather it takes longer but you have got to scrape that fat out. Now if you soak too long you will get hair slippage. And you may already with that much fat still in it. It most likely didnt soak up any tanning solution if the hide was still full of fat
Before I do the tanning process I wash it in 5 gal. Bucket half full warm to hot water with 3 T. dawn dish detergent at least twice. It removes the excess oils from the hide. Let dry then tan.
The more of these videos I watched now …being an ex hairdresser (but are you ever really an ex when you’re in that line?) I realize it’s all about rinse and repeat, just different chemicals in each step… kind of like doing color? 🤣🤣🤓
Use mostly nonidionized salt but im not sure it matters on this its just to pull oils out of the skin. Work it over a short cable nailed to something or and axe handle cut into a dull edge. Im gonna do a new tanning video soon and ill break one in on camera
Raymond your correct, tanning actually involves tannins from bark, galls and leaf matter. What he's doing here is preserving. That being said, using the tanning phrase using eggs, brains, alum or commercial formulas is acceptable in the hide preserving (tanning) groups. Ever heard of braintan? Sure you have. Ever heard of brain preserving? I don't think so.
@@SpiritoftheOutdoorsTrue tanning is done with tannins from bark. What your doing is technically preserving but using the tanning phrase is still excepted with amateur tanners and taxidermists. Braintan and eggtan are one in the same. They both contain Lecithin, that magic natural chemical that preserves (tans) the hair on or hair off skin.
Generally bark tanning is for what I will call hard leather like a knife sheath and such,then the leather is soaked with heavier oils such as tallow and olive oil. However what he is doing is closer to buckskin with fur still on ...
Great video on the tail issue cut a narrow strip of hardware cloth and use a couple clothespins to hold the hardware cloth to the tail. That's one way I did tails .
Great video and tutorial !! I've never egg tanned but I think I'll be giving it a try. As for the tail , I cut a piece of wire screen to hold the tail open. Just staple it to the board when you're stapling him to the board.
How did it turn out?
Appreciate the tutorial. I didn’t know about egg tanning.
Im am currently working on more tanning videos. Buckskin at the moment. I have found i get a better fur if i pickle it
You have the best, most informative videos! Thanks!
Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. Greatly appreciated.
😂 I was hoping to see you use it as a puppet and I wasn’t disappointed.
I heard in Europe it was common practice in the 1700’s to use aged human urine as a tanning solution. I need to research that myself. Never heard of using eggs. Have one now I’ll try it on. Great video and thanks.....
Pretty sure they used it to dehydrate hides. Ive heard of native american women peeing on hides to dry them out.
I’m new to the tanning thing, I’ve hunting my whole life and I been skinnin critters my whole life, but skinnin out coons and fox to tan have got the best of me. I can skin them out and make the prettiest job you ever seen, until the tail. I have the hardest time getting that tail skinned out and still having the whole tail left on the hide when I’m done. Here lately I’ve been tearing the last couple inches off and it’s getting on my nerves 😂
I just filmed skinning a fox. Ill have the video up this week so maby it will help you out
Thank you for all your insight! In the process of learning to tan my first skin (scavenged deer leg). Very awesome to remind us that mistakes happen and that's how you learn- I'm sure my first one will be quite a learning process :^)
I have ruint many hides learning but you pay attention to what went wrong and try again. Fleshing one out well is the most important thing .
What is the purpose of soaking it
Great tutorial. Thanks
Your welcome. Thank you for checking out my channel
After I put my egg on my coon hide it won’t dry there is to much oil and grease still in the hide it has been drying for over 5 days with the egg on it I tried working it on a piece of rebar but the hide won’t get fully dry I fleshed the hide and salted it do you know anything I can do to help me?
Soak it in salt water a few hours like 2 . Then reflesh. Coons have way more fat than a fox or bobcat. It has to be well fleshed so that all membrain is off. Then retan and start stretching. The more you stretch the more it will dry. Also in cooler weather it takes longer but you have got to scrape that fat out. Now if you soak too long you will get hair slippage. And you may already with that much fat still in it. It most likely didnt soak up any tanning solution if the hide was still full of fat
@@SpiritoftheOutdoors putting it in the salt water and refleshing and tanning and stretching would that fix the hair slippage?
@@walkersbigadventures hair slippage is from bacteria setting up. Salt helps prevent it and set hair.
Before I do the tanning process I wash it in 5 gal. Bucket half full warm to hot water with 3 T. dawn dish detergent at least twice. It removes the excess oils from the hide. Let dry then tan.
The more of these videos I watched now …being an ex hairdresser (but are you ever really an ex when you’re in that line?) I realize it’s all about rinse and repeat, just different chemicals in each step… kind of like doing color? 🤣🤣🤓
super interesting, thanks for the video
Thank you for checking out my channel
Will the hide be fine if you wash after tanning it?
After smoking it it will
How should I stretch it? And what kind of salt are you using?
Use mostly nonidionized salt but im not sure it matters on this its just to pull oils out of the skin. Work it over a short cable nailed to something or and axe handle cut into a dull edge. Im gonna do a new tanning video soon and ill break one in on camera
Can you egg tan a gray fox this way?
Yes
thanks for the video
Your welcome
Did you end up smoking it
Yes
Since then ive learned he orange bottle doesnt require smoking and egg, brain and soap/oil does
@@SpiritoftheOutdoors I bought some of that stuff and I’m just going to give it to my friends I don’t like it
@@SpiritoftheOutdoorsso is the tanning solution water proof
im' getting both a raccoon tanning education and ASMR tingles wathing this...
10:16 are you peeling the egg off?
O its some of the membrane i should have gotten off earlier but with thin hides you have to be careful
@@SpiritoftheOutdoors doing my first coon now , I didn’t flesh before salting but I think it will b okay that’s how I do squirrels and rabbit
@@SpiritoftheOutdoors what is your method for smoking hides? Specifically how do you make smoke with out catching stuff on fire
Sound quality 😢
Stop calling this process tanning, tanning is turning a raw skin into leather
I did turn raw skin into leather. It just has hair on it.
That's literally what he's doing. Gotta love it when people incorrectly correct other people.
Raymond your correct, tanning actually involves tannins from bark, galls and leaf matter. What he's doing here is preserving. That being said, using the tanning phrase using eggs, brains, alum or commercial formulas is acceptable in the hide preserving (tanning) groups. Ever heard of braintan? Sure you have. Ever heard of brain preserving? I don't think so.
@@SpiritoftheOutdoorsTrue tanning is done with tannins from bark. What your doing is technically preserving but using the tanning phrase is still excepted with amateur tanners and taxidermists. Braintan and eggtan are one in the same. They both contain Lecithin, that magic natural chemical that preserves (tans) the hair on or hair off skin.
Generally bark tanning is for what I will call hard leather like a knife sheath and such,then the leather is soaked with heavier oils such as tallow and olive oil.
However what he is doing is closer to buckskin with fur still on ...