Valuable learning tool, but lacks the detail to be used as your only guide.Helps you see how to do each step of the wet-scrape process.Recommended if you don’t have access to hands-on instruction.Packaged with a steady flow of primitive post-industrial humor. Good chapter on garment construction and a user’s guide to the various brain-tanning methods. The best illustrations, bibliography, dyeing chapter, trouble-shooting, tool sharpening, and glossary of any tanning book. ![]() ![]() It is rich in how-to information however, and very worth having. Their approach is to give you a general knowledge of each step and then let you choose how to go about it. Its only weak-point is that the basics of ‘how-to tan a hide’ are buried in all of the information. This is an encyclopedic information source for brain-tanning. Wet-scrape method (how to do multiple brainings efficiently).Information that is not available anywhere else.A step-by-step guide to varying this books’ Basic Method if you want to tan without the bucking step.Ī Practical Guide to Home Tanning and Use.Important improvements to the Dressing step-by-step, to ensure success for first timers.Important improvements to the Bucking process.Bibliography (thorough and user-friendly).Different skinning cuts for a better hide shape.Makes it so you can skip one of the wringing steps (which takes 15 minutes itself).Thicker hides such as moose, elk or even thick deer, way less work. Makes it much easier to get complete brain penetration on thick hides, which makes tanning.Removes the variability of trying to get the perfect moisture content before dressing. ![]()
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