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Offline El Destructo

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Re: hydrated lime?
« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2009, 09:52:39 am »
Quote from: deersled on March 02, 2009, 11:31:29 pm
will a metal cable do the same thing?

Yes it will...find a place that you can stretch it out tight....and start to draggin that Hide across it till it softens up nice...
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Re: hydrated lime?
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2009, 12:14:17 am »
deer sled,

I once tried eggs on a deer skin and had the same result...stiff kinda like paper.  I don't know why, but it never ever softened up well.  I use brains exclusively now, but then maybe I didn't do the "egging" correctly.  By the way, that Deerskins into Buckskins is a great book. 
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Re: hydrated lime?
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2009, 10:31:01 am »
bill how many eggs did ya use for what size hide?
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Re: hydrated lime?
« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2009, 02:09:43 am »
I used 12 eggs for 2 gallons of water, I believe? Small to medium sized whitetail hide. The cable and board have softened it up some. The thicker areas are just not soft enough. Think I need to get it wet again (re-egg) and attempt to dry it on the cable this time. Working a dry hide on a cable or board is extremely difficult. I haven't smoked it yet. Will smoking do anything to soften it up?
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Re: hydrated lime?
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2009, 11:52:07 am »
if you redo it and it is still stiff , sand the area that is stiff to open up the fibers better. you can also scrape the stiff area so it is thinner.
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