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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: T.eddie on July 13, 2024, 11:17:08 am
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Doing some deer control means I end up with a fair few skins. I try to use as much of the culled deer as possible so the freezer is chock full of rolled up skins waiting to be tanned.
As I do this myself and having a full time job as well as a family Inc 2 young kids it's not often that I get a chance to crack on with the process.
Still very much an amateur but here's a nice fallow and a muntjac that I've done
I'm struggling with attaching so here's a link to the instagram post from them
Fallow
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5B1fmLSp-/?igsh=ZWd4MmtsZWR4Ymxt
Muntjac
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpPWuA_NzWN/?igsh=MWNjaHIxZmwweHN6Mg==
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Those are beautiful!
If you ever want an outlet to sell tanned hides, deerskin is a good choice for a saddle cloth, especially for those riding in a minimal type of saddle such as the TCS (Total Contact Saddle.) (Reindeer skin is the very best, other deer next, and then sheep.)
(For the equestrian market, the tanning chemicals would need to be suitable for close contact with the horse, of course.)
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Those are beautiful!
If you ever want an outlet to sell tanned hides, deerskin is a good choice for a saddle cloth, especially for those riding in a minimal type of saddle such as the TCS (Total Contact Saddle.) (Reindeer skin is the very best, other deer next, and then sheep.)
(For the equestrian market, the tanning chemicals would need to be suitable for close contact with the horse, of course.)
Thank you And I never knew that it's definitely worth considering if I were producing a lot. Currently it's more of a "something I wanted to try and mow want to get better at"